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Web Content Article on-date Jun 17, 2019 7:35 PM
2019-06-17 GH_ASCOPIAVE_870.1565011002.jpg The business partnership, through the joint venture EstEnergy, involves over 1 million customers, with the new entity's overall value coming to 864.5...
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Web Content Article on-date Mar 1, 2019 1:06 PM
2019-03-01 Potentialpark_870.1551441116.png For the third consecutive year, the multiutility is awarded by major Swedish research company Potentialpark for being the most "talent friendly" company...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 26, 2019 12:04 PM
2019-02-26 ATR_CMV_870.1551343251.png The last formal step on today's date for the integration of the natural gas distribution activities of Inrete and CMV Servizi and the energy sale activities of...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 21, 2019 3:34 PM
2019-02-21 top_utility_870.1550754098.png The prize was given today in Milan at the seventh edition of the award, which analyses and enhances the performances of the most important public service...
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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 Oct 25, 2017 4:24 PM
2017-10-24 Cogen870.1533211062.jpg Hera's new cogeneration plant opened today in the Borgo Panigale-Reno district. It has the capacity to provide electricity and hot water to 8,000 houses, and is...
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Web Content Article on-date Oct 9, 2017 3:36 PM
2017-10-09 digielode_870.1508943636.1533211995.jpg The new Hera Group's project, with the involvement of families and citizens, aims to equip schools with new digital equipment...
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Web Content Article on-date Sep 20, 2017 3:13 PM
2017-09-20 2.1505979023.1533212729.jpg Free and easy to use, the multiutility's new app is now available to help customers manage services, supplies and other aspects of their relationship with...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 19, 2017 9:19 AM
2017-06-19 870.1500390469.jpg With years of excellent results behind it, Hera renews its commitment to outstanding potable water quality and, together with the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Higher...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 7, 2017 9:46 AM
2017-06-06 Italy's Minister for the Environment speaks at the conference on the circular economy - organised by Hera as one of several G7-related events - and cites the good progress being made by...
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Web Content Article on-date May 8, 2017 11:14 AM
2017-05-04 Free and open to all, the exhibition of artwork produced using waste materials can be visited from 5 to 21 May in the halls of Palazzo Rasponi. The Hera Group project, carried out in...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 13, 2017 11:59 AM
2017-01-11 208_tommasi_venier.1484133524.jpg Solidly based on data from the 2016 forecast, the new Plan confirms the Group's track record of growth and responds to the most recent changes in the...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 13, 2017 12:13 PM
2017-01-11 870_Aliplast.1484218019.jpg The company based in Ospedaletto di Istrana (Treviso), a national centre of excellence in plastic recycling, joins the Hera Group, which thus confirms its...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 11, 2017 9:46 AM
2017-01-04 vvvv.1483537355.1484124396.jpg The multiutility company comes into line with the best practices of important international groups and, in accordance with EU objectives and the UN agenda,...
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Web Content Article on-date Nov 22, 2016 10:21 AM
2016-11-21 _870.1479742296.1479806595.JPG The Oscars of online communications have been awarded. The multiutility company's website placed second, preceded only by Snam. The award is based on a...
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Web Content Article on-date Nov 9, 2016 5:34 PM
2016-11-08 11_870x320_cs_s1.1479113984.jpg The multiutility company forges ahead of the European agenda on the circular economy and, at Ecomondo, it presents the new editions of its sustainability...
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Web Content Article on-date Nov 10, 2016 9:25 AM
2016-11-09 09_870x320_cs_s1.1479114547.jpg At Ecomondo the Hera Group is hosting an exhibition of students from the Florence Academy of Fine Arts: 10 portraits of famous people made of industrial...
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Web Content Article on-date Nov 14, 2016 10:22 AM
2016-09-21 Lucrezia_Reichlin_870x320_cs_s1.1479115494.jpg The well-known economist commented on the issue of recovery during the conference dedicated to the presentation of the HERA Group's...
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Web Content Article on-date Sep 23, 2016 5:56 PM
2016-09-20 In_buone_acque_870x_s1.1474534610.1479115082.jpg "In buone acque" ("In good waters"), the complete screening of the Group's water cycle, which provides a snapshot of all of its services,...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 22, 2016 11:44 AM
2016-07-22 acquologo_eng_opt.1469110431.png Thanks to this new free application, with just a few clicks you can find out about tap water quality, receive notifications about service interruptions...
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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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