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19/06/2024

Online since 15-05-2024 at 10:38

Hera Group acquires Soelia’s gas network

Through its subsidiary Inrete Distribuzione Energia, the Group was awarded the tender for the gas distribution plants and network serving the municipality of Argenta in Ferrara area

Hera Group BoD approves results for 1Q 2024

The consolidated quarterly report at 31 March shows improvement in the main operating and financial indicators. The Group’s financial solidity and commitment to sustainability and the ecological transition were confirmed, along with the creation of value for all stakeholders and significant investments in the areas served to improve our assets resilience and to guarantee service quality and continuity

Online since 14-05-2024 at 12:41

30/04/2024

Online since 29-04-2024 at 12:53

Hera Shareholders Meeting: 2023 financial statements approved and dividend increased to 14 cents

The Group continues along its path of uninterrupted growth, closing 2023 with record performance in the main operating and financial indicators, thus constantly creating value for its stakeholders.

23/04/2024

Hera Group at the top of ARERA’s water service quality ranking

The multiutility confirms itself among Italy’s most outstanding operators, securing the first and third positions, with reference to all macro-indicators, as proof of the very high standards adopted by the Group in this field. A commitment that the Hera fulfils with significant investments to ensure the highest quality and continuity of service to around 3.6 million citizens and an increasingly efficient and circular use of resources. Important results have been achieved, particularly in Emilia-Romagna.

08/04/2024

Publication of the Draft Separate and Consolidated Financial Statements as of 31.12.2023, the Sustainability Report - Consolidated Non-Financial Statement, the Corporate Governance Report, and the Report on Remuneration and Compensation Paid

29/03/2024

Thanks to investments totalling approximately 50 million euro, the Hera Group will build a state-of-the-art facility within its own plant complex. Starting from plastic waste that has so far been difficult to recycle, it will produce high quality polymers with characteristics similar to those shown by virgin materials, thus making sectors such as consumer electronics and the automotive industry increasingly sustainable

Rigid plastics recycling: one of Europe’s most innovative plants to be built in Modena

27/03/2024

The year closed with main financial indicators rising and the targets included in the strategic Plan to 2026 exceeded three years ahead of schedule. The Group’s financial solidity and flexibility allowed it to continue along its path of industrial growth, increasing its investments and successfully grasping market opportunities, both internal and external, while continuing to generate value benefitting all stakeholders. The proposed dividend was raised, reaching 14 eurocents per share

Publication of documents pertaining to the Shareholders Meeting to be held on 30 April 2024

Hera Group approves results as at 31/12/2023

Online since 26-03-2024 at 12:47

11/03/2024

Sustainability, decarbonisation, liveability and biodiversity protection are the keywords of this project, which will be developed in the northern part of the city and will contain a new urban park with facilities, complemented by areas dedicated to protecting animal and plant species, and an agrivoltaic field that will allow an annual saving of 6,000 tons of CO2.

Green energy and a new urban forest: the Hera Group’s Energy Park arrives in Bologna

04/03/2024

The passing of Hera S.p.A.'s Vice Chairman, Mr. Gabriele Giacobazzi

We hereby inform you that on March 3, 2024, the Vice Chaiman of the Board of Directors, Mr. Gabriele Giacobazzi, passed away.

13/02/2024

The Group achieved the leadership band in the CDP questionnaire and was included among “TOP 1%” Multi and Water Utilities of the S&P Global’s Sustainability Yearbook 2024. These recognitions prove Hera’s commitment to sustainable development and creating shared value for local areas.

Hera Group among Europe’s leaders in sustainability and the fight against climate change

06/02/2024

With the 7 lots awarded in the tender for the Gradual Protection Service for non-vulnerable household customers, the Hera Group consolidates its position as the sector’s third largest operator in Italy.

Hera Group: over 1 million new electricity customers as of 1 July

Hera Group expands in the industrial waste sector with TRS Ecology

With the acquisition of 70% of the Piacenza-based company, the Group reinforces its leadership in the waste management sector. This transaction, at full capacity, is expected to contribute to growth in the Hera Group’s Ebitda with approximately 6 million euro.

Hera Group presents Business Plan to 2027

Development, resilience and creating shared value for stakeholders are at the heart of the Group’s new strategic document, which foresees investments totalling 4.4 billion to speed up the ecological transition and enhance asset resilience to climate change. The preliminary results for 2023 outperform the previous Plan’s goals that have been achieved three years ahead of schedule, thanks to the numerous development actions implemented and the Group’s ability to grasp market opportunities.

Online since 24-01-2024 at 12:02

22/01/2024

Online since 22-01-2024 at 13:24

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18/01/2024

The company reaffirms, once again in 2024, its position among the best performers in human resources management, thanks to substantial investments in welfare, training, and skill development.

Hera Top Employer for the 15th Consecutive Year

02/01/2024

A further confirmation of the importance of Hera’s achievements in terms of gender equality and inclusion

Hera Group has obtained the “Gender equality certification”

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16/01/2018

Clean energy for Bio-on's new biopolymers "factory" thanks to a trigeneration plant built by Gruppo Hera

Bio-on, the leader in eco-sustainable chemical technologies, and Gruppo Hera, one of Italy's main multi-utility providers, have reached an agreement for the supply of clean energy thanks to the realisation and management of a new technological-energy hub that will house a newly designed trigeneration plant. The deal was signed by Bio-on S.p.A. with Hera Servizi Energia, a subsidiary of Gruppo HERA, and will guarantee clean electric energy for the new plant producing innovative biopolymersthat Bio-on is currently constructing in Castel San Pietro Terme, outside Bologna.

The plant, due to open by the middle of 2018 and begin PHAs bioplastic production thanks to a 15 million Euro investment, will employ approximately 40 people.The plant will occupy an area of 30,000 m², 3,700 of which is covered and 6,000 land for development, and will have a production capacity of 1,000 tons per year expandable to 2,000. It will be equipped with state-of-the-art technologies and the most advanced research laboratories, where Bio-on will test and develop new types of PHAs bioplastic using agricultural and agro-industrial waste as raw material. Bio-on also demonstrates its focus on environmental sustainability in its choice of site, opting to convert a former factory, meaning no new land is wasted.

Through the agreement, Gruppo Hera will supply Bio-on's new plant with a) Power produced and self-consumed, b) Heating in the form of steam, and c) Cooling. The multiannual agreement includes the realisation and maintenance of the entire technological-energy hub associated with the supply of energy, for a total investment from Hera Servizi Energia of 2.4 million Euro.

Hera Servizi Energia is the landmark ESCO in Gruppo Hera's industrial sector, which over the years has developed a portfolio of cogeneration plants built with the best technologies on the market, able to guarantee major energy and economic savings.

The project developed for Bio-on envisages the realisation of the entire technological-energy hub comprising a 1 MW trigeneration power plant, two steam boilers, two high-efficiency industrial coolers and a modern water treatment plant. The energy saving generated is over 800 TOE (tonnes of oil equivalent) per year, equivalent to the amount of CO2 a 320-hectare woodland absorbs in one year or the equivalent of 810 diesel cars being taken off the roads.

"We are extremely proud of this agreement," explains Bio-on S.p.A. Chairman and CEO Marco Astorri, "because it allows us to increase and complete the industrial sustainability of our new production plant. We chose to not use agricultural land by converting a derelict plant, and with HERA we can add strong GREEN credentials in our energy usage to produce a biopolymer like MINERV PHAs that is sustainable and completely biodegradable in nature." Bio-on, a fast-growing company, fundamentally met the objectives of its business plan presented on 22 November 2016 for 2017 and looks to 2018 with major new projects, including its sustainable energy collaboration with HERA.

All the PHAs (polyhydroxyalkanoates) developed by Bio-on are made from renewable plant sources with no competition with food supply chains. They can replace a number of conventional polymers currently made with petrochemical processes using hydrocarbons; they guarantee the same thermo-mechanical properties as conventional plastics with the advantage of being completely eco-sustainable and 100% naturally biodegradable.

The agreement between the two companies has come out of a highly dynamic territory that represents the technological cutting edge in Italy.

"For a company such as ours, which has innovation and sustainability at its foundations,"explained Giorgio Golinelli, managing director of Hera Servizi Energia, "the collaboration with Bio-on is a natural meeting of the minds and a convergence of views that we believe can be developed with an increasing number of players operating in sustainably developing the economy and the territory. With this agreement, thanks to the breadth and quality of our service offering, we can put an additional green stamp on a project that aims to change the world of eco-plastics. Hera has been at the forefront of this sector for some time, encouraging the transition towards a circular economy model that extends the life of raw materials and resources through recycling, reuse and longer-lasting products."

Gruppo Hera

It is one of Italy's largest multi-utility providers working in Environment (waste collection and treatment), Energy (electricity and gas distribution and sale) and Water (waterworks, sewers and purification). The Group employs over 9,000 people and works every day to meet the many and varied needs of over 4.4 million citizens. It serves over 350 local municipalities mainly in the Emilia Romagna, Marche, Tuscany, Abruzzo, Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia regions.

Bio-on S.p.A.

Bio-On S.p.A., an Italian Intellectual Property Company (IPC), operates in the bioplastic sector conducting applied research and development of modern bio-fermentation technologies in the field of eco-sustainable and completely naturally biodegradable materials. In particular, Bio-On develops industrial applications through the creation of product characterisations, components and plastic items. Since February 2015, Bio-On S.p.A. has also been operating in the development of natural and sustainable chemicals for the future. Bio-On has developed an exclusive process for the production of a family of polymers called PHAs (polyhydroxyalkanoates) from agricultural waste (including molasses and sugar cane and sugar beet syrups). The bioplastic produced in this way is able to replace the main families of conventional plastics in terms of performance, thermo-mechanical properties and versatility. Bio-On PHAs is a bioplastic that can be classified as 100% natural and completely biodegradable: this has been certified by Vincotte and by USDA (United States Department of Agriculture). the Issuer's strategy envisages the marketing of licenses for PHAs production and related ancillary services, the development of R&D (also through new collaborations with universities, research centres and industrial partners), as well as the realisation of industrial plants designed by Bio-On.

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11/10/2017

2017-10-11 logo_testo_blu_1507715078.1533220413.jpg The results achieved by the multi-utility in favouring the transition towards a circular economy have once again been recognised, by this pre-competitive innovation programme which was established to enable organisations to develop new opportunities and realise their circular economy ambitions faster. List of shareholders with a stake of over 3% This recognition confirms and gives new impetus to a strategy which has long been in the works, thanks to which the Hera Group has progressively increased its commitment towards sustainability and a circular economy. Ultimately, it has allowed the Group to quantify - as of the 2016 Sustainability Report - the shared value produced, i.e. the amount of EBITDA generated by pursuing objectives that meet the priorities of the UN's 2030 Agenda (a figure that reached € 300 million in 2016, 33% of the total). Hera's commitment, already in line with EU objectives - reached and surpassed as regards a reduced use of landfills and packaging recycling - can now be seen on an international stage. It thus gains further breadth, qualifying this multi-utility as a protagonist in consolidating models of development that, along the lines set out by the CE100 programme, lead growth and environmental protection to converge. CE100 Hera Group press_release_Hera_CE100.1507798813.pdf 2017-06-23 sinistra 09:30:00 Hera Group Read more List of shareholders with a stake of over 3%

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Hera among the world's circular economy leaders: welcomed to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's CE100 programme

10/10/2017

2017-10-10 Logo_Thomson_Reuters_250x_s1_1507625922.1533221375.jpg In this ethical index, which promotes investments that take into account diversity, inclusion and people development in over 6,000 publicly traded companies globally, the Italian multi-utility, with a score of 77.25 percent, almost 6 higher than in 2016, ranked 14th worldwide. List of shareholders with a stake of over 3% The Hera Group is the best company in Italy and the 14th in the world for investments aimed at promoting diversity and inclusion. This result was announced in the 2017 edition of Thomson Reuters' "Diversity and Inclusion Index", which examined a sample of over 6,000 publicly listed companies globally. The Italian multi-utility, with a score of 77.25, ranked second in the world in the utilities sector, improving its performance by almost six percent over 2016 (71.5) and thus rising by 46 positions in the global ranking. The "Diversity and Inclusion Index" is an ethical classification conceived and conducted by the international giant of financial information Thomson Reuters. It analyses companies' performances on the basis of a wide range of factors, falling into four categories: diversity, inclusion, people development and news controversy. The Hera Group's commitment to policies promoting inclusion and diversity has a long history. It was first consolidated in 2009, when the Charter for equal opportunity and equality on the workplace was signed: with this document the company engaged, alongside other private and public bodies, to the struggle against discrimination on the workplace. The introduction in 2011 of the Diversity Manager, whose task involves giving even greater emphasis to developing policies aimed at inclusion and the valorisation of diversity, was also fundamental. Mention must also go to the proportion of female personnel, which rose and is above the national average in the energy, water and environment sector (24.2%, compared to 15.9%), and to the presence of women in roles of responsibility that in Hera, in 2016, reached 31%. Many initiatives, lastly, make plurality management concrete, including agreements with daycare centres, summer camps and a range of programmes aimed at reconciling time for work and living. These are flanked by arrangements made for leave time not only for moms and dads but also for those who must provide assistance to relatives or elderly people. This is also the area that includes the project "Policies for a positive re-entry", conceived and implemented by Hera to improve work-leave management, financed among others by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers on account of the innovative and socially significant nature of the proposals made. press_release_thomson_reuters.1507642560.pdf 2017-06-23 sinistra 16:05:00 110x150_heraspa.1475082913.jpg Read more List of shareholders with a stake of over 3%

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Hera foremost Italian company in Thomson Reuters' "Diversity and Inclusion Index"

09/10/2017

2017-10-09 digielode_870.1508943636.1533211995.jpg The new Hera Group's project, with the involvement of families and citizens, aims to equip schools with new digital equipment http://digielode.gruppohera.it/ digielode.gruppohera.it Online billing, direct debits, registering to online services, interactive apps for utilities management, separate waste collection and water services, not to mention digital customer meter reading and also Fast Check Up, a new digital tool that lets you understand how you are using energy and what you can do to reduce waste, to the benefit of the environment and your wallet. From now on, by choosing to use one or more of these tools, made available to its customers free of charge by Hera, families and citizens will be able to accumulate points convertible into financial contributions to schools in order to fund digitisation projects. This, in essence, is the work of "Digi e Lode", the new Hera Group's project that aims to contribute to the digitisation of primary and middle schools within served areas, whether they be public or integrated private schools. In keeping with the Piano Nazionale Scuola Digitale (National Plan for Digital Education) - which identifiesdigitisation as a strategic element for educating young people and for local development - "Digi e Lode" is based on the awareness of the rapid changes that characterise today's world, in which scenarios are unfolding that until recently were unimaginable. But the skills and knowledge needed to deal with them can only be developed through a series of innovative tools that should be provided - above all - to schools, students and teachers. "Digi e Lode"is part of the wider educational initiative, "The Great Global Machine", which Hera addresses every year to local schools, sponsored by the Regional School Office. Activate Hera's digital services and reward schools in your city But, in practical terms, how does "Digi e Lode" work? Simple: Every time a customer activates one or more of the digital services mentioned, it will help increase the number of points that will be shared among the schools in his/her town. The customer can also choose which school should receive the points obtained by filling in the form on the initiative's dedicated web site, digielode.gruppohera.it. In this way, the points will be awarded to the chosen school and will acquire a higher value, being multiplied by 5. In the current school year (2017/2018), the Hera Group will donate to the 40 schools of the area (30 in municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants and 10 in municipalities below 50,000 inhabitants) that acquire the highest number of points a total of 100,000 euros, that is 2,500 euros for each school, to be used for digitisationprojects. All the information on how to participate is available on http://digielode.gruppohera.it/ Italy ranks 25th out of 28 in Europe in the Digital Economy Index The National Plan for Digital Education of the Ministry of Education, University and Research contains the figures that led to the birth of "Digi e Lode", a contribution that the Hera Group wants to lead to the development of the local area, in keeping with the business strategiesthat identify innovation as a cornerstone of development and according to the guidelines set out in the Global Agenda of the United Nations up to 2030. The document shows that Italy ranks 25th out of 28 in Europe in the Digital Economy Index, the indicator that measures digital transactions in the economy and in society. The index, which is calculated by considering, among other things, connectivity, the diffusion of digital skills (the human capital), the use of the internet and thedigitisation of businesses, thus relegates Italy to the level of countries with the worst performance. Here are some figures that emerge from the National Plan for Digital Education: 70% of classrooms of Italian schools are networked, but generally in a way that is unsuitable for digital teaching; only 41.9% of the classrooms have IWBs (interactive whiteboards) and only 6.1% have an interactive projector; 15 year olds spend an average of 19 minutes a day on the computer in class compared with an OECD average of 25 minutes; 36% of Italian teachers say they are not sufficiently trained for digital teaching, compared to an OECD average of 17%. 20171009_Digi_e_Lode_en_MH_LM.1508222165.pdf 2017-10-09 15:31:16 Digi e lode

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"Digi e Lode", the digitisation project that gives away 100,000 euros to schools

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