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Web Content Article on-date Mar 15, 2018 4:13 PM
4 digielode 2018-02-22 The end of the quarter also saw the awarding of the top twenty schools in the "Digi e Lode" project, which won Euro 50,000 of the total 100,000 for the entire 2017/2018...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 31, 2018 3:12 PM
The project for an incorporation of Megas.Net and Marche Multiservizi (MMS), the largest multi-utility in the Marche region and part of the Hera Group (which currently holds 49.59% of MMS), has now...
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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 Aug 3, 2018 3:58 PM
Potentialpark_110 "In an increasingly competitive and challenging context, we need to know how to adapt continuously in order to attract talents that allow the company to keep up with the times -...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 26, 2018 4:34 PM
toputility110 Achieving excellence in any field or industry is no easy feat, doing so year after year even less so. Yet this is exactly what the Hera Group has succeeded in doing at the sixth...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 22, 2018 1:32 PM
3 Top utility 2018-02-22 The Hera Group wins in the sixth edition of the Top Utility Award, which analyses and promotes the achievements of the top 100 Italian utility companies. The survey,...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 22, 2018 1:25 PM
367 top utility 2018-02-22 Again this year Hera Group was awarded in the sixth edition of the Top Utility Award, which analyses and promotes the performance of the top 100 Italian utility...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 22, 2018 1:57 PM
15 Achieving excellence in any field or industry is no easy feat, doing so year after year even less so. Yet this is exactly what the Hera Group has succeeded in doing at the sixth edition of Top...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 29, 2018 2:48 PM
Also this year, Hera Group will participate with its own stand at the Career Day in Bologna, an initiative organized by the University, aimed at the meeting between graduates and companies. The...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 21, 2018 8:34 AM
petisland110 For the Hera Group, sustainability continues to be synonymous with art. Through Aliplast, the Group company that puts plastic through a treatment process that allows its reutilisation,...
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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 7, 2018 10:11 AM
6 Top employer 2018-02-01 The Hera Group is confirmed for the ninth consecutive year among the leading companies in the management of human resources. The award comes from the Dutch organization...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 7, 2018 10:32 AM
5 cibo amico 2018-02-01 In conjunction with the Food Waste Protection Day, Presadiretta, the transmission of Rai 3 conducted by Riccardo Iacona, carried out an investigation into the Italian...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 22, 2018 1:48 PM
16 For the ninth consecutive year, the Hera Group has confirmed its position as a leader in Human Resources management. This acknowledgement comes from the Holland-based Top Employers Institute...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 26, 2018 4:16 PM
topemployers110 For the ninth consecutive year, the Hera Group has confirmed its position as a leader in Human Resources management. This acknowledgement comes from the Holland-based Top Employers...
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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 Feb 1, 2018 6:15 PM
366 Global Compact 2018-02-01 The Hera Group now endorses the CEO Water Mandate, the United Nations Global Compact initiative promoted to re-launch the commitment shown by companies to a...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 30, 2018 9:34 AM
CEO_logo110 The Hera Group – Italy’s second operator in the water sector, with 300 million m3 of water sold and 3.6 million citizens served – now endorses the CEO Water Mandate, the United Nations...
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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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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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