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Document on-date Nov 24, 2017 4:12 PM
DICHIARAZIONE AMBIENTALE ANNO 2017 COMPLESSO IMPIANTISTICO DI VIA CARUSO 150 MODENA (MO) Rev. 0 del 14/06/2017 1 PREMESSA Il presente documento costituisce...
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DICHIARAZIONE AMBIENTALE ANNO 2017 COMPLESSO IMPIANTISTICO Via del Frullo 3/F Granarolo dell’Emilia (BO) Rev. 0 del 16/06/2017 1 PREMESSA Il presente documento...
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DICHIARAZIONE AMBIENTALE ANNO 2017 COMPLESSO IMPIANTISTICO DI VIA SELICE 12/a Mordano (BO) Rev. 0 del 13/06/2017 1 PREMESSA Il presente documento costituisce...
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press release Bologna, 27 March 2018 Hera Group approves results at 31/12/2017 Improvement seen in all operating, financial and sustainability indicators. These results, which exceeded...
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Consolidated Financial Statements 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Letter from the Chairman to Shareholders 1 Governance and control bodies 3 Corporate...
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DICHIARAZIONE AMBIENTALE ANNO 2018 COMPLESSO IMPIANTISTICO Via dell’Energia, Pozzilli (IS) Rev.0 del 09/03/2018 1 PREMESSA Il presente documento...
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DICHIARAZIONE AMBIENTALE ANNO 2018 COMPLESSO IMPIANTISTICO DI Via Finati 41/43 Ferrara (FE) Rev. 0 del 16/04/2018 1 PREMESSA Il presente documento...
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DICHIARAZIONE AMBIENTALE ANNO 2018 COMPLESSO IMPIANTISTICO DI VIA CARUSO 150 MODENA (MO) Rev. 0 del 16/05/2018 1 PREMESSA Il presente documento...
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001492001492 DICHIARAZIONE AMBIENTALE ANNO 2018 COMPLESSO IMPIANTISTICO Via Cavazza 45 Modena (MO) Rev. 0 del 23/04/2018 1 PREMESSA Il presente...
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press release Bologna, 30 July 2018 Hera BoD approves 1H2018 results The consolidated half-year report at 30 June confirms growth in operating and financial indicators, in line with the...
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press release Bologna, 10 January 2019 Hera Group approves Business Plan to 2022 Based on solid forecast for 2018, which significantly exceeded the goal of one billion in Ebitda, this new...
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FACT SHEET YEAR 2018 www.gruppohera.it CONTACTS INVESTOR RELATIONS HERA SpA Viale Berti Pichat, 2/4 - 40127 Bologna Tel.: +39 051 28 71 11 Fax: +39...
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C o n so lid ated F in an cial S tatem en ts 2018 Consolidated Financial Statements 2018 Hera Group – Consolidated Financial Statements at 31 December 2018, approved by the Hera...
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1 Consolidated non-financial reporting drawn up pursuant to articles 3 and 4 of Italian Leg. Decree 254/2016 2 Content Sustainability, Strategy and Shared Value...
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D IC H IA R A Z IO N E A M B IE N T A L E 2 0 1 9 COMPLESSO IMPIANTISTICO “TRE MONTI” Via Pediano 47c/52 Imola (BO) Rev. 0 del 07/03/2019 DATI AGGIORNATI AL 31/12/2018 ...
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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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