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Web Content Article on-date Jul 6, 2016 9:31 AM
52 2016-03-09 Sixty students of technical schools of the provinces of Emilia-Romagna will use the school/work programme and summer internships, the result of an agreement signed by the Hera...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 8, 2016 10:00 AM
2016-07-08 riunione_.1469543703.jpg Sale of ordinary shares of Hera S.p.A. ABB - July 2016 The Municipalities of Castelfranco Emilia, Cesena, Frassinoro, Fiorano Modenese, Formigine, Maranello,...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 28, 2016 6:07 PM
2016-06-28 Alessandro Baroncini A wholly owned subsidiary of the multi-utility, the company will be operational from 1 July 2016. Alessandro Baroncini, former Director of Energy Networks at the...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 27, 2016 10:20 AM
Inrete The Board of Directors of Hera S.p.A. today approved, with effect from 1 July 2016, the transfer of the gas and electricity distribution line of business to the company Inrete...
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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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Web Content Article on-date Jun 22, 2016 5:15 PM
2016-06-22 inrete.1469545883.jpg Inrete will be operational as of 1st July 2016. Nasce INRETE per la distribuzione di gas ed energia elettrica The Hera S.p.A. Board of Directors has approved...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 21, 2016 5:43 PM
9 2015-04-09 Hera Group voices the enhancement of female talent: This is the significant achievement of the XXVIII edition of the Marisa Bellisario Award "Donne ad Alta Quota" [Women at High...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 20, 2016 6:10 PM
The Hera Group takes the podium for the value it places on female workers: this was the important outcome of the XXVIII edition of the Maria Bellisario "Donne ad Alta Quota" (high-flying women)...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 20, 2016 5:25 PM
26 The Hera Group takes the podium for the value it places on female workers: this was the important outcome of the XXVIII edition of the Maria Bellisario "Donne ad Alta Quota" (high-flying women)...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 24, 2016 3:43 PM
2016-06-16 Tomaso Tommasi di Vignano The Maria Bellisario Foundation has awarded the multi-utility company with the Golden Apple for Women-Friendly Company. Here are the motivations for this award...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 13, 2016 9:44 AM
27 Hera's commitment to new technologies has been rewarded at the Smau Bologna innovation trade fair. The HergoAmbiente project won the Smau R2B Innovation Prize for cutting-edge experiences that...
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Web Content Article on-date May 20, 2016 3:48 PM
Why is it important for businesses to assess social impacts in the region? What strategic value might this have? What is the most effective methodological approach? Companies and experts in the...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 28, 2015 3:37 PM
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 May 5, 2016 4:11 PM
Again this year, the Hera Group will be attending with its own stand the Open University day, the event which creates networking opportunities for graduates and businesses , organised by the...
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Web Content Article on-date May 5, 2016 4:09 PM
Again this year, the HERA Group will be attending with its own stand the Career Day organised by the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE) in collaboration with the Regional Authority...
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Web Content Article on-date May 13, 2016 4:07 PM
ALTIS (Alta Scuola Impresa e Società) presents the event "Creating and measuring shared value", which will take place on Wednesday, 25 May, from 9.30am to 1pm at our headquarters at via San Vittore...
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Web Content Article on-date May 10, 2016 12:09 PM
MIAC Recovery and Recycling 2016, the international event dedicated to paper for recycling sponsored by COMIECO, will take place from 19 to 20 May in Lucca. Herambiente will be one of the main...
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Web Content Article on-date May 19, 2016 5:54 PM
55 2016-03-09 Wednesday, 18 May 2016 in the beautiful setting of Palazzo Rasponi's main hall, Hera presented the experience of HeraLABs, its local multistakeholder boards, to encourage...
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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 May 5, 2016 4:06 PM
Again this year, the Hera Group will be attending with its own stand the Ferrara Career Day, an initiative organised by the Departments of Engineering, Economics, Mathematics and Computer Science,...
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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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