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Web Content Article on-date Jun 9, 2016 6:39 PM
Starting from 15 days prior to the price sensitive event, Hera cannot release any type of information related to the last trimester. However, it is possible to get in touch with the IR team for Q&A...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 26, 2016 4:09 PM
Group Senior Management meets every year national and international funds that are interested in the infrastructure sector, in order to present Hera and its financial results as at 30 June 2016. ...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 26, 2016 4:08 PM
Group Senior Management meets every year national and international funds that are interested in the infrastructure sector, in order to present Hera and its financial results as at 30 June 2016. ...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 27, 2015 5:25 PM
Meeting of the Board of Directors to approve 1H2016 results. 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 Jun 9, 2016 5:33 PM
Starting from 15 days prior to the price sensitive event, Hera cannot release any type of information related to the last trimester. However, it is possible to get in touch with the IR team for Q&A...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 28, 2015 3:35 PM
2015 dividend payment Laura Micaletto 2016-06-22 Fiorenza Bavieri sede_hera_110.1592477872.1603377620.jpg 653 00:00:00 23:59:00 2015 dividend payment 1053 1 0 1 2016-06-22
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Italian Conference Unicredit - Milano Conference with the main national and international investors, focused on the main italian listed Company Laura Micaletto 2016-06-08 Fiorenza Bavieri ...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 27, 2015 5:23 PM
Meeting of the Board of Directors to approve 1Q2016 results. 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 28, 2015 3:32 PM
2016 AGM The meeting will be held in Bologna c/o the Group headquarter. In this occasion shareholders approve the 2015 financial results and dividend payment Fiorenza Bavieri 2016-04-28 Fiorenza...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 10, 2016 9:46 AM
Starting from 15 days prior to the price sensitive event, Hera cannot release any type of information related to the last trimester. However, it is possible to get in touch with the IR team for Q&A...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 28, 2015 3:29 PM
Y2015 road show The senior management will be traveling in Italy, UK, France, Switzerland, USA with brokers covering the Hera equity Fiorenza Bavieri 2016-04-01 Fiorenza Bavieri ...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 27, 2015 5:20 PM
Meeting of the Board of Directors to approve the financial report at 31 December 2015. The BoD will meet in Bologna - Viale Berti Pichat 2/4 40127 Bologna at 11 am CEST. A press release on the...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 10, 2016 9:53 AM
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 28, 2015 3:24 PM
Road show dedicated to CSR investors (Frankfurt - Luxemburg) Fiorenza Bavieri 2016-02-01 Fiorenza Bavieri sede_hera_110.1592477872.1603377620.jpg 650 00:00:00 23:59:00 Road show dedicated to CSR...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 20, 2015 12:44 PM
Meeting of the Board of directors to approve the financial report for the nine months ending 30 September 2015. The BoD will meet in Bologna - Viale Berti Pichat 2/4 40127 Bologna at 11 am CEST. A...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 10, 2016 10:00 AM
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 9, 2015 4:33 PM
An international event dedicated to the multi-utility sector organized in London, for an even greater proximity with the world of Anglo-Saxon investors. Group's senior management presents H1...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 9, 2015 4:32 PM
One on one meetings, group meetings and plenary presentations for a comparison between the leading players in the infrastructure sector and the international financial community. Group's senior...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 20, 2015 12:44 PM
Meeting of the Board of Directors to approve the financial report for the six months ending 30 June 2015. The BoD will meet in Bologna - Viale Berti Pichat 2/4 40127 Bologna at 11 am CEST. A press...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 10, 2016 10:03 AM
Starting from 15 days prior to the price sensitive event, Hera cannot release any type of information related to the last trimester. However, it is possible to get in touch with the IR team for Q&A...
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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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