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Web Content Article on-date Sep 6, 2018 11:45 AM
2018-09-06 Logo_Thomson_Reuters_250x_s1_1507625922.1533221375.jpg Conceived to provide orientation for investors showing interest towards companies committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 26, 2018 11:53 AM
2018-07-30 Results as at 30 June 2018 The consolidated half-year report at 30 June confirms growth in operating and financial indicators, in line with the first quarter, with a positive...
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Web Content Article on-date May 18, 2018 2:21 PM
2018-05-17 Stefano_Venier.1534258940.jpg After launching the first green bond in 2014, the Group now confirms its place at the nations' forefront in the use of new sustainable financial...
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Web Content Article on-date May 7, 2018 11:37 AM
2018-05-10 Results as at 31 March 2018 The consolidated quarterly report at 31 March shows growth in all operating and financial indicators, with a positive contribution coming from all business...
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Hera Shareholders Meeting: 2017 financial statements and dividends rising to 9.5 cent/share approved
Web Content Article on-date Apr 24, 2018 4:03 PM
2018-04-26 Improvement seen in all operating-financial and sustainability indicators, with results exceeding expectations and a renewed commitment to creating shared value. Appointment of...
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Web Content Article on-date Apr 19, 2018 3:09 PM
2018-04-18 Hera_SpA_2380_GWI_870_1524149606.1533218688.jpg The first Italian company to be admitted within this network, Hera confirms the international standing of its activities in the water...
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Web Content Article on-date Apr 6, 2018 11:18 AM
2018-04-06 Hera_Italgas870_1513853697.1533218766.jpg All conditions set forth in the agreement having been fulfilled, the 100% divestment of the company holding concessions for gas distribution and...
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Web Content Article on-date Apr 4, 2018 4:36 PM
2018-04-04 Publication of the draft Separate and consolidated financial statements at 31/12/2017, the Sustainability report - consolidated non-financial statement and Shareholders meeting...
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Web Content Article on-date Mar 22, 2018 12:19 PM
2018-03-27 be2017_870x320_slide_eng.1522151642.jpg Improvement seen in all operating, financial and sustainability indicators. These results, which exceeded expectations, crown a path of...
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Web Content Article on-date Mar 20, 2018 5:22 PM
2018-03-20 Nuova_Palazzina_1_870x.1533219432.jpg Headquartered in Atessa (Chieti), Sangroservizi offers natural gas sales services to roughly 7,000 customers. Following the recent acquisition of...
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Web Content Article on-date Mar 7, 2018 11:55 AM
2018-03-07 (redatta ai sensi dell'art. 85-bis, comma 4-bis, del Regolamento Consob 11971 del 14 maggio 1999) List of shareholders with a stake of over 3% Bologna , 7 march 2018 - Nella seguente...
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Web Content Article on-date Mar 9, 2018 9:21 AM
2018-03-07 MMS_Megas870_1520433311_1533042726.1533218896.png Today, the two companies' Shareholders Meetings approved, in an extraordinary session, the project for merger by incorporation of...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 8, 2018 10:32 AM
2018-02-08 Nuova_Palazzina_1_870x.1533219586.jpg Based in Pescara, the company operates in gas and electricity sales, with roughly 17,000 customers in the Marche and Abruzzo regions, to be added to...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 2, 2018 4:32 PM
2018-02-02 Nuova_Palazzina_870x.1533218220.jpg List of shareholders with a stake of over 3% Update Before N. of shares in the total share capital N. of voting rights N. of shares in the...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 30, 2018 2:55 PM
2018-01-30 Stefano_Venier.1534403921.jpg The second Italian company to do so, Hera thus confirms its own orientation towards the objectives set out in the UN's 2030 Agenda, re-launching its...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 29, 2018 3:43 PM
2018-01-29 Tomaso_Tommasi_di_Vignano.1509632134.1534410649.jpg After Ravenna, Imola, Modena, Udine and Pisa, the travelling exhibition of Hera Group comes to the city tomorrow, to coincide with...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 23, 2018 2:00 PM
2018-01-23 sede_Gruppo_Hera_4505_1516717240_1532967068.1533219811.jpg The loan is destined to support investments in the environment area, with the aim of introducing innovative projects to help...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 22, 2018 5:16 PM
2018-01-22 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.",...
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Web Content Article on-date Mar 16, 2022 1:57 PM
2018-01-16 hera_bioon870_1516176236.1533219940.jpg Clean energy for Bio-on's new biopolymers 'factory' thanks to a trigeneration plant built by Gruppo Hera http://hse.gruppohera.it/ Hera Servizi...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 8, 2018 11:31 AM
2018-01-10 Based on the forecast for year 2017, EBITDA amount reached roughly 980 million, the Group's path of growth will continue to focus on investments, innovation and agility, in order to...
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Modena's smart purification plant is COSTANCE, the prototype of the purification plant of Granarolo dell'Emilia. Two outstanding examples of sustainable water resource management.
The watchword is innovation. To protect the environment and those who live in it, and to provide quality services.
That's always been our belief. But there's more. We need to add another watchword: resilience, the ability to cope with change. And when we speak of climate change, we have learned that innovation and resilience are inseparable. The most modern technologies allow us, in fact, to face sudden changes, turning to prevention, the ability to predict causes and consequences, acting in advance.
Following this principle, and as the second-ranking Italian operator in terms of volumes of water sold, we have earmarked Euro 830 million for smart technologies in our Business Plan for 2023. In fact, the networks and plants of the water cycle are subjected to increasing stress due to the ongoing climate change, and only our ability to adapt and innovate, has made us an Italian excellence in the industry.
The investments we have made are 20% higher than the Italian average - almost Euro 176 million in 2019 alone – and reaffirm our commitment to a circular and regenerative economy, starting with water.
In particular, by complying with the requests of the United Nations Global Compact on the sustainable management of water resources, we remain committed to continuously innovate the service to achieve its gradual decarbonisation. This happens not only by using only renewable energy but also through energy efficiency projects and optimisation of the processes involved in the treatment.
There are two virtuous examples we are particularly proud of, the Modena treatment plant and that of Granarolo dell'Emilia (Bologna).
THE SMART TREATMENT PLANT IN MODENA
Blue water, clear water. This is the refrain that welcomes to Modena's smart treatment plant. Its new predictive system, unique in Italy, enables us to improve the quality of the water we return to the environment and to further reduce the energy consumption of our wastewater treatment plant.
Here, technological innovation, integrated systems, and efficient use of resources are at the forefront.
The project, developed together with Energy Way (the company that develops mathematical models for the efficient and sustainable development of businesses), created a system capable of controlling the oxidation process, a fundamental phase of the wastewater treatment cycle, anticipating the needs of the plant's activities. In fact, the requirements vary according to the water flow rate and the concentration of organic pollutants. The smart controller anticipates, 30 minutes in advance, the condition of the plant and acts beforehand to avoid the concentration of pollutants or energy peaks.
The pilot project has yielded positive results, which we are proud of. The Modena treatment plant, which can cope with the needs of 500,000 inhabitants, recorded a 16% decrease in energy used in the oxidation process, compared to a traditional control system, and a further 8.1% decrease in the presence of nitrogen in the outgoing water (a parameter already below the regulatory limits).
WELCOME TO CONSTANCE, PROTOTYPE OF THE GRANAROLO DELL’EMILIA TREATMENT PLANT
It's just been born, but it's looking very promising. We are talking about CONSTANCE (COntrollo iNtelligente e geSTione Automatizzata per il trattameNto di aCque rEflue). The system is the fruit of a partnership between Hera Group and ENEA (Ente per le Nuove tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente), is based on machine learning technologies, and can reduce energy and water treatment plant management costs by more than 30%. The prototype has reached a level 7 technological maturity and is ready for industrialisation; the first tests were successfully carried out in our treatment plant in Granarolo dell'Emilia (Bologna).
CONSTANCE's main innovative feature enables us to remotely manage multiple treatment plants and to estimate in real-time the percentage of pollutants entering the plant, such as nitrogen, reducing them and thus returning cleaner water.
"At Hera, we place technological innovation among the fundamental pillars of our management and development strategy. With this in mind, in 2017 we formed a partnership with ENEA to build projects of common interest," says Franco Fogacci, Water Director of Hera. "The experimental test project of ENEA's CONSTANCE controller at our treatment plant will allow us both to further develop skills, know-how, and transfer new technologies into real applications on an industrial scale, for the benefit of citizens and the environment", he concludes.
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