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2020-01-31 Hera acquires 2.5% of Ascopiave's share capital from Amber Hera acquires 2.5% of Ascopiave's share capital from Amber. The shareholding purchase operation, which arose from a market opportunity, was shared with Asco Holding. It further reinforces the partnership launched with the transaction finalised last December and will be followed by a similar transaction by Ascopiave. 20200131_comunicato_azioni_Ascopiave_ENG.1580457419.pdf 2020-01-31 08:51:00 Hera acquires 2.5% of Ascopiave's share capital from Amber

2020-01-30 Tomaso Tommasi di Vignano - Hera's Executive Chairman The Group has been certified for the eleventh consecutive year, rewarding a strategic management that focuses on people and gets them involved in pursuing shared goals. Investments in welfare, training, diversity and innovation continue. The Hera Group is once again a Top Employer "Receiving this certification for the eleventh consecutive year proves that the path we have taken is valid", states Hera's Executive Chairman, Tomaso Tommasi di Vignano. "This does not lead us to believe, however, that it is sufficient. Indeed, we wish to continue dedicating significant resources to our employees, in terms of development, wellbeing and training. We will thus offer them the best working conditions possible, which also means guaranteeing an inclusive and participative workplace. Hera is a constantly growing company, and its results are due to the commitment shown by its employees, who with their daily activities create value in the areas we serve. The path before us leads to the best services for citizens and local communities, and without people, without putting them at the centre of value-creating processes, without giving them a sense of being protagonists in the business and the challenges of our times, no strategy could be converted into reality". Tomaso Tommasi di Vignano - Hera's Executive Chairman 20200130_comunicato_Top_Employers_2020_eng.1580395393.pdf 2020-01-30 sinistra 15:02:00 The Hera Group is once again a Top Employer

2020-01-24 The multi-utility has now become part of this index, which measures gender equality and the promotion of diversity and inclusion, examining 325 listed companies, 10 of which Italian, in 42 countries worldwide Hera Group included in the 2020 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index The multi-utility has now become part of this index, which measures gender equality and the promotion of diversity and inclusion, examining 325 listed companies, 10 of which Italian, in 42 countries worldwide The Hera Group has once again been confirmed among the Italian and foreign companies most attentive to gender equality and diversity and inclusion promotion. It has indeed become part of the 2020 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, which examines 325 listed companies in 42 countries worldwide, committed to promoting and creating equal and inclusive workplaces, thanks to the development of specific policies and projects. Ten Italian companies are included in the index. Attention towards diversity is unquestionably an increasingly central issue for the international financial community, with investors showing a growing interest in listed companies with outstanding policies in this area. This index evaluates companies' diversity activities based on five main parameters, analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively: female leadership and talent pipeline, equal pay and gender pay parity, inclusive culture, specifically structured harassment prevention and sanctioning policies, a brand that recognisably and holistically supports the female gender. The evaluation criteria also include transparency in information provided on the issue of gender equality. The Hera Group reached particularly outstanding results in the latter area, with a score of 93.94%, outdoing the best practices of international companies (whose average comes to 89.92%) and the utility sector (with an average of 92.73%). Excellent results were also seen in the multi-utility's harassment prevention and sanctioning policies, with a score coming to 80.00% (as opposed to a national average of 57.75%, and 57.92% in the utility sector). Lastly, Hera also achieved quite good results in "female leadership and pipeline" (52.63%) and as a "brand that recognisably supports women" (65.00%). "The Hera Group is pleased to be included in the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index", states Hera CEO Stefano Venier. "This fact recognises the quality and authenticity of the path taken by the Group, which over time has been enriched with new contents and dimensions, involving an ever-wider set of female and male colleagues, as well as external bodies committed toward these issues. Indeed, if advances of this type are made, they make sense above all when they are shared by the entire socio-economic system. We will thus interpret this as an invitation to continue along the same path and to consolidate an orientation that puts gender inclusion at the very heart of our development policies". Additional evidence of the Hera Group's attention towards promoting diversity, inclusion and people development comes from the score it achieved in the 2019 Refinitiv "Diversity & Inclusion Index" (formerly Thomson Reuters), that each year evaluates over 7,000 listed companies across the world. Last year, Hera ranked as the 3rd company in Italy and 14th internationally, further improving its position (after coming in 22nd in 2018) and confirming itself as the leading multi-utility in this global ranking. The Hera Group's commitment to diversity and inclusion policies, moreover, began quite some time ago and was consolidated in 2009 when it signed the Charter for equal opportunity and fairness on the workplace. A key element was the introduction, in 2011, of a Diversity Manager, whose goal is to additionally favour the development of inclusion policies and diversity valorisation. With these activities, Hera actively contributes to the United Nations' fifth sustainable development goal (SDG), specifically dedicated to gender equality. Furthermore, Hera continues to work on developing internal and personalised career paths, and this orientation has allowed it to reach a percentage of women with roles of responsibility that in 2019 came to 29%. The amount of female personnel, which increased overall, settled at 26.5%. In addition to this data, one must also add that the percentage of disable employees reaches 4.9% of the total, which corresponds to a significant amount of support for inclusion of people with special needs. A significant contribution also comes from training. 99% of the Group's workers were involved in training activities in 2019, with a per capita average of approximately 28.6 hours. The various initiatives include the extension of smart working and leadership courses, which favour the development of human resources based on the different characteristics of each employee (gender, age, training, aptitude and skills). Nor should one forget the introduction of innovative training activities that use the gamification methodology, such as the recent Diversity@work, conceived precisely to raise awareness of diversity and inclusion culture among the all of the company's employees. Other positive effects unquestionably come from the company welfare plan, Hextra, which in many ways supports employees and their families (the overall value of the services provided came to 4.5 million euro in 2019). Lastly, many significant projects give concrete shape to plurality management, such as scholarships, agreements with summer schools, work-life balance initiatives and the availability of parental leave, given not only to mothers and fathers but also those who care for elderly relatives. Not by chance, the results that emerge from enquiries on the company climate continue to be encouraging and are additionally confirmed by the absence of litigation involving diversity and inclusion. 20200124_Bloomberg_Gender_Equality_Index_engl.1579880776.pdf 2020-01-24 11:19:00 Hera Group included in the 2020 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index

2020-01-21 Calendar of events CALENDAR OF CORPORATE EVENTS (*) In accordance with art. 2.6.2 (Required Reporting) of the "Rules of the markets organised and managed by Borsa Italiana S.p.A.", please find below our annual calendar of corporate events: 25 March 2020 - Meeting of the Board of Directors to approve the previous year's preliminary financial statements. 29 April 2020 - Shareholders' Meeting to approve the previous year's financial statements. 13 May 2020 - Meeting of the Board of Directors to approve additional financial information for the period ending on 31 March 2020. 29 July 2020 - Meeting of the Board of Directors to approve the half-year financial report as at 30 June 2020. 11 November 2020 - Meeting of the Board of Directors to approve additional financial information for the period ending on 30 September 2020. The Board of Directors, as communicated for the previous financial year and in line with the past, in order to guarantee regularity in the information provided to the financial market and investors, has decided to continue preparing and publishing this information quarterly, on a voluntary basis and in line with current regulations. (*) barring changes CS_CALENDAR_OF_CORPORATE_EVENTS_2020_ENG.1579599066.pdf 2017-01-26 09:48:00 Related contents Calendario degli eventi