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Web Content Article on-date Jan 22, 2021 12:25 PM
The meeting of the BoD to approve the Business Plan 2019-2023 will be held on January 13, 2021. 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 Nov 12, 2020 1:00 PM
The Hera Group will take part in the third edition of “Utilities and Infrastructure Conference”, organized by Mediobanca in Australia. Fiorenza Bavieri 2020-11-30 Fiorenza Bavieri ...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 7, 2019 10:49 AM
The meeting of the BoD to approve ad interimresults as at 30 September 2020 will be held on 11 November 2020. The Board of Directors, as communicated for the previous financial year and in line...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 7, 2019 10:31 AM
The meeting of the BoD to approve ad interimresults as at 30 June 2020 will be held on 29 July 2020. 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 7, 2019 10:46 AM
The meeting of the BoD to approve ad interim results as at 31 March 2020 will be held on 13 May 2020. 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 Aug 7, 2019 10:28 AM
During 2020 AGM financial results as at 31/12/2019 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 7, 2019 10:22 AM
The meeting of the BoD to approve the Financial Results as at 31/12/2019 will be held on 25 March 2020. 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 7, 2019 10:14 AM
The meeting of the BoD to approve the Business Plan 2019-2023 will be held in the first half of January, approximately between 7 and 15 January 2020 (date to be announced). The BoD will meet in...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 7, 2019 10:19 AM
The road show, dedicated to institutional investors, to present the Business plan to 2023 will be organised on January and February. Dates and locations will be announced asap. The event will be...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 6, 2019 10:03 AM
Meeting of the BoD approves financial results as at 30 September 2019. The Board of Directors, as communicated for the previous financial year and in line with the past, in order to guarantee...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 29, 2019 2:26 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 in...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 6, 2019 10:03 AM
Meeting of the BoD to approve ad interim results as at 30 june 2019. The BoD will meet in Bologna - Viale Berti Pichat 2/4 40127 Bologna at 11 am CEST. A press release on the board's discussions...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 29, 2019 4:01 PM
Hera's senior management takes part in the second edition of the Italian Sustainability Day at Palazzo Mezzanotte - Borsa Italiana. The aim of the day is to support the dialogue between listed...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 29, 2019 3:54 PM
870x320_.1564660703.png Fiorenza Bavieri 2019-06-24 Fiorenza Bavieri sede_hera_110.1592478681.jpg 795 00:00:00 Tommaso Tomasi di Vignano e Sefano Venier 23:59:00 Ex date on 24 June 2019 and...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 6, 2019 10:03 AM
Meeting of the BoD to approve ad interim results as at 31 march 2019. The Board of Directors, as communicated for the previous financial year and in line with the past, in order to guarantee...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 6, 2019 10:03 AM
During 2019 AGM financial results as at 31/12/2018 are approved and major fiscal year events are presented to shareholders, with special focus on CSR and creation of shared value key indicators. ...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 6, 2019 10:03 AM
Meeting of the BoD to approve Financial Results as at 31/12/2018. The BoD will meet in Bologna - Viale Berti Pichat 2/4 40127 Bologna at 11 am CEST. A press release on the board's discussions and...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 11, 2018 12:34 PM
The event is a special showcase dedicated to Italian listed companies, and especially the North-Eastern ones, which will have the opportunity to meet institutional, Italian and international...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 22, 2017 11:37 AM
Meeting of the BoD approves financial results as at 30 September 2018. The Board of Directors, as communicated for the previous financial year and in line with the past, in order to guarantee...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 11, 2018 12:28 PM
A selection of Italian public and private infrastructure companies will meet the international financial community to discuss their strategic and financial prospects. Attending companies: A2A -...
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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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