Dialogue with the urban context for new energy: the Borgo Panigale cogeneration plant
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date May 10, 2023 5:48 PM
Hera's senior management attends the Mediobanca's financial event, where the major Italian companies will have the opportunity to present their business to national and international funds, both...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Jan 16, 2023 10:48 AM
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Jan 19, 2023 4:03 PM
The meeting of the BoD to approve ad interim results as at 30 September 2023 will be held on 8 November 2023. The Board of Directors, as communicated for the previous financial year and in line...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Jan 19, 2023 3:55 PM
The meeting of the BoD to approve the Financial Results as at 31/12/2022 will be held on 21 March 2023. The BoD will meet in Bologna, Viale Berti Pichat 2/4 40127 Bologna. A press release on the...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date May 10, 2023 5:43 PM
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Nov 8, 2022 5:10 PM
On November 30th and December 1st, 2022, Hera Group will take part in the fifth edition of the “Southern European Infrastructure Conference”, organized by Mediobanca in Australia. This year's...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Aug 2, 2022 12:02 PM
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Aug 2, 2022 11:56 AM
Sydney (Australia) The Hera Group will take part in the fifth edition of “Utilities and Infrastructure Conference”, organized by Mediobanca in Australia. 2022-11-29 ...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Aug 2, 2022 11:50 AM
Palazzo Mezzanotte (Milan) A selection of Italian public and private infrastructure companies will meet the international financial community to discuss their strategic and financial prospects. The...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Aug 2, 2022 11:43 AM
Coupon date on June 20, 2022, and payment on June 22, 2022 The dividend, amounting to 12-euro cent, shows an increase over the past and in line with what had previously been announced in Annual...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Jan 28, 2022 5:09 PM
The meeting of the BoD to approve ad interim results as at 30 June 2022 will be held on 27 July 2022. The BoD will meet in Bologna - Viale Berti Pichat 2/4 40127 Bologna. A press release on the...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Jan 28, 2022 5:14 PM
The meeting of the BoD to approve ad interim results as at 30 September 2022 will be held on 9 November 2022. The Board of Directors, as communicated for the previous financial year and in line...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 12, 2022 9:31 AM
The meeting of the BoD to approve the Business Plan 2021-2025 will be held on January 27, 2022. The BoD will meet in Bologna - Viale Berti Pichat 2/4 40127 Bologna. A press release on the board's...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 28, 2022 5:00 PM
The meeting of the BoD to approve ad interim results as at 31 March 2022 will be held on 11 May 2022. The Board of Directors, as communicated for the previous financial year and in line with the...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 28, 2022 5:03 PM
During 2022 AGM, financial results as at 31/12/2021 will be approved and major fiscal year events will be presented to shareholders, with a special focus on CSR and creation of shared value key...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 4, 2021 2:19 PM
The meeting of the BoD to approve the Financial Results as at 31/12/2021 will be held on 23 March 2022. The BoD will meet in Bologna - Viale Berti Pichat 2/4 40127 Bologna. A press release on the...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 22, 2021 1:59 PM
The meeting of the BoD to approve ad interim results as at 30 September 2021 will be held on 10 November 2021. The Board of Directors, as communicated for the previous financial year and in line...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 4, 2021 2:24 PM
A selection of Italian public and private infrastructure companies will meet the international financial community to discuss their strategic and financial prospects. The event is organized by...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 22, 2021 1:56 PM
The meeting of the BoD to approve ad interim results as at 30 June 2021 will be held on 28 July 2021. The BoD will meet in Bologna - Viale Berti Pichat 2/4 40127 Bologna. A press release on the...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 4, 2021 2:22 PM
Coupon date on July 05, 2021 and payment on July 07, 2021 The dividend, amounting to 11-euro cent, shows an increase over the past and in line with what had previously been announced in Annual...
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District heating is already in itself a "sustainable" and environment-friendly solution, because it can guarantee better performance than traditional domestic boilers. In addition, the plant located in Borgo Panigale ensures lower emissions into the environment, more reliability and greater availability of energy. The system can heat the equivalent of 8,000 residential units. Currently, the turbines can produce 35,000 MWh of energy per year, almost twice as much as in the past.
When going by the roundabout between Via Prati di Caprara and Via Vittorio Sabena in the Reno di Borgo Panigale neighbourhood in Bologna, it seems like you are passing next to a gigantic colourful radiator. It has the appearance of a modern work of art, but instead it is the Hera Group’s new cogeneration plant.
This plant has changed the face of the entire neighbourhood since it was inaugurated in October 2017. Its characteristic element is the elliptical structure covering the stack of the plant. It consists of 576 plates of colourful porcelain stoneware arranged on multiple overlapping rings that create a combination of colours and light with the nuances typical of the city of Bologna: brick red, ochre yellow, tuff yellow, dark brown and rust.
Hera’s undertaking for an efficient district heating system
The Cogen plant, which stands in Via Paolo Nanni Costa, is not only Hera’s jewel from the architectural viewpoint - perfectly integrated with the new urban context of the neighbourhood - but is also the Group’s pride and joy from the production viewpoint. Entirely designed and built by Heratech, the engineering essence of the Hera Group, the plant produces energy in cogeneration, meaning both electricity and hot water necessary for the district heating network. Built thanks to an investment topping Euro 17 million, the plant heats the equivalent of 8000 housing units and currently the turbines produce up to 35,000 Mwh of energy a year, almost double that of the past.
District heating is already in itself a “sustainable” and eco-friendly supply because it is able to guarantee greater efficiency than the traditional household boilers. What’s more is that the plant guarantees less atmospheric emissions, greater reliability and a higher availability of energy with 90% efficiency.
What does all of this mean in terms of benefits for the environment? It is like planting 25,000 new trees every year. Or stopping the flow of traffic of 8000 vehicles during the same period.
Technology, efficiency, reutilisation of the land
The use of advanced technology and energy efficiency are therefore the cornerstones of this work, in line with Hera’s mission for sustainable development. But that’s not all. The new Cogen district heating plant made a remarkable impact also in terms of land reutilisation. Built on the site of the thermoelectric plant in operation since the 1990s, the Cogen plant allowed the plant in Via Segantini to be shut down and today only one plant is able to cover the same requirement guaranteed by the two of the past. (is it advisable to say that?) Yes, I think so
This is an enormous goal that Hera has met, which sets upgrading existing facilities one of its primary objectives. If the percentage of land reutilisation was 77% in the Group Sustainability Report closed in 2019, the development of the network works and of plants presently in progress and included in the 2020-2023 Industrial Plan will allow 73% of reutilised land to be guaranteed. (data updated to 2019).
The undertaking of the Hera Group for energy efficiency
The Borgo Panigale Cogen plant is part of the 343 interventions forming the plans for improvement of Hera, Inrete, AcegasApsAmga and Marche Multiservizi at year-end 2019, and that will allow consumption to be cut by 13,740 Tep (-5.9% energy consumption compared to 2013), passing the target set for 2020 by -5%. (data updated to 2019).
The Bologna Cogen plant in figures:
- 8,000 housing units served
- 35,000 Mwh energy produced each year
- Euro 17 million invested
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