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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 Jan 3, 2018 4:46 PM
2018-01-02 sede_HERA.1501171881.jpg (list drew up in accordance with article n. 143-quater, subparagraph 5, of the CONSOB regulation n. 11971/99) List of shareholders with a stake of over 3% Data...
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Web Content Article on-date Dec 21, 2017 10:57 AM
2017-12-21 Stefano_Venier.1534411037.jpg Thanks to this operation, Italgas will further reinforce its presence in Sardinia while Hera continues its process of rationalising Group. Italgas and Hera...
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Web Content Article on-date Dec 14, 2017 3:03 PM
2017-12-14 Tomaso_Tommasi_di_Vignano.1509632134.1534411389.jpg Today, Herambiente completed the purchase of a further 40% of the Treviso company's shares, and the ensuing change in governance. The...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 3, 2018 4:32 PM
2017-12-05 Nuova_Palazzina_870x.1533216684.jpg (list drew up in accordance with article n. 143-quater, subparagraph 5, of the CONSOB regulation n. 11971/99) List of shareholders with a stake of...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 3, 2018 4:32 PM
2017-11-06 sede_HERA.1501171881.jpg (list drew up in accordance with article n. 143-quater, subparagraph 5, of the CONSOB regulation n. 11971/99) List of shareholders with a stake of over 3% Data...
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Web Content Article on-date Apr 3, 2017 1:05 PM
2017-04-03 870_Aliplast.1501171633.jpg Herambiente's purchase of the first 40% of shares of the Treviso-based company, a national leader in plastic recycling, was completed today. A further 40%...
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Web Content Article on-date Mar 6, 2017 6:34 PM
2017-03-06 870_Aliplast.1501171634.jpg Thanks to this operation, whose enterprise value amounts to roughly € 100 million, the Hera Group confirms its position among Italy's leaders in recycling and...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 31, 2017 9:33 AM
2017-01-30 Thanks to the purchase made by Group subsidiary Waste Recycling of the plant sector of the Pisa company Teseco, a primary figure in industrial waste treatment and recovery, Herambiente,...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 11, 2017 11:19 AM
2017-01-11 870_Aliplast.1501171634.jpg The Ospedaletto di Istrana (Treviso) company, a national leader in plastic recycling, becomes part of the Hera Group, which thus confirms itself as one of...
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Web Content Article on-date Oct 11, 2016 3:50 PM
2016-10-11 sede_HERA.1501171971.jpg Hera: placement of new bonds under the EMTN programme for Euro 400 million Following the press releases dated respectively 29 September and 6 October 2016,...
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Web Content Article on-date Oct 6, 2016 11:59 AM
2016-10-06 heracomm_gransasso.1501232997.png The Hera Group consolidates its presence in the Abruzzo region, purchasing the gas and electricity sales company active primarily in the areas...
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Web Content Article on-date Oct 6, 2016 4:50 PM
2016-10-06 sede_HERA.1501171971.jpg Hera: placement of new bonds under the EMTN programme for Euro 400 million Not increased the overall indebtedness of the Group Today, Hera S.p.A (the "Company")...
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Web Content Article on-date Apr 8, 2016 9:59 AM
2016-04-08 riunione_.1469545191.jpg Hera Comm has completed its acquisition of 100% ownership of the gas and electricity sales company. Through this purchase, the Hera Group acquires new customers...
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Web Content Article on-date Mar 10, 2016 5:20 PM
2016-03-10 riunione_.1469543703.jpg Hera Group reinforces its presence in Abruzzo thanks to the acquisition tender for the gas and electricity sales company held by the Municipality of Giulianova....
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 11, 2016 10:44 AM
2016-01-11 bp to 2019 eng.png A Plan once again envisaging growth, aimed at a 2019 EBITDA of over € 1 billion. Development to be based on a balanced mixture of internal growth and M&A, including...
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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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