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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Sep 28, 2023 4:19 PM
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Web Content Article · written-by Davide Donnarumma on-date Sep 26, 2023 12:42 PM
2023-09-27 Hera S.p.A. hereby announces that, following the resignation, effective from 19 June 2023, of the director Lorenzo Minganti, the Company’s Board of Directors, which met today, has...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Sep 27, 2023 10:17 AM
2023-09-27 The merger deed was signed today and follows the acquisition, last March, of 92% of Asco TLC by the Hera Group subsidiary and Ascopiave. The transaction will strengthen Acantho’s...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Sep 19, 2023 4:59 PM
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Web Content Article · written-by LUCIA ALGISI on-date Aug 11, 2023 3:04 PM
SI In today's context, where the demand for water is increasing and climate change is affecting the amount available, protecting this resource is crucial. This is why we dedicate large investments...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Aug 2, 2023 11:46 AM
2023-08-02 Bologna, 2 August 2023 – The following table contains the data concerning the shares outstanding and the number of voting rights representing the share capital as at 31 July 2023. ...
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Web Content Article · written-by LUCIA ALGISI on-date Jul 28, 2023 3:49 PM
Shareholders' meetings Indipendent auditors Board of statutory auditors Board of Directors Remuneration committee Ethics and sustainability committee Executive committee Control and risk committee...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Jul 27, 2023 4:58 PM
2023-07-27 The merger leads to the strengthening of Acantho's position in the IT-TLC sector: thanks to Asco TLC's cutting-edge skills and infrastructure, the digital company expands its assets and...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Jul 26, 2023 10:08 AM
Financial highlights Ebitda at 718.3 million euro (+13.8%) Net profit attributable to shareholders at 187.7 million euro (+2.4%) Overall investments rise to 403.4 million euro (+22.4%) Net debt at...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Jul 26, 2023 12:13 PM
2023-07-26 The consolidated half-year report at 30 June shows growth in all main operating-financial indicators, confirming Hera’s financial solidity and once again demonstrating the effectiveness...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Jul 27, 2023 9:26 AM
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Jul 27, 2023 9:23 AM
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Jul 27, 2023 9:22 AM
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Web Content Article · written-by Davide Donnarumma on-date Jul 17, 2023 12:57 PM
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has granted a €460 million loan to Hera Group. The main goals of the financing are to strengthen the resilience of integrated water services, increase the...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Jul 14, 2023 2:59 PM
2023-07-17 The EIB loan will help improve the resilience of the integrated water cycle, energy efficiency and the management of environmental services in the areas served by Hera. Operations in...
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Web Content Article · written-by Davide Donnarumma on-date Jul 17, 2023 11:33 AM
The Hera Group is committed to ensuring that no one suffers discriminatory treatment for refusing to be complicit in acts of corruption or offences or for reporting in good faith the occurrence or...
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Web Content Article · written-by LUCIA ALGISI on-date Jul 12, 2023 6:41 PM
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Web Content Article · written-by Davide Donnarumma on-date Jul 12, 2023 3:57 PM
true Born in Bologna in 1979. Since 24 May 2023, he has been Business Development Manager with responsibility for supporting the company's top management in handling the evolution of the business...
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Web Content Article · written-by Davide Donnarumma on-date Jul 12, 2023 3:45 PM
SI Roberto Dardi Business Development Manager Born in Bologna in 1979. Since 24 May 2023, he has been Business Development Manager with responsibility for supporting the company's top management...
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Web Content Article · written-by Davide Donnarumma on-date Jul 12, 2023 3:18 PM
true Born in Portomaggiore (Ferrara) in 1968. Since 16 May 2023 she has been the Chief Executive Officer of Hera Comm S.p.A. and has been responsible for the sales company of the Hera Group, which...
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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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