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Web Content Article on-date Jun 10, 2016 10:03 AM
Starting from 15 days prior to the price sensitive event, Hera cannot release any type of information related to the last trimester. However, it is possible to get in touch with the IR team for Q&A...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 7, 2020 10:38 AM
20 Foto_premiazione_2015.1436197984.jpg sinistra For the sixth consecutive time, the prestigious institute acknowledges the multi-utility as one of the best Italian companies due to working...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 7, 2020 10:39 AM
20 sinistra Hera Group was in the top 10 companies in Italy chosen by young people looking for work on the web. This was the result of an international study conducted by the Swedish research...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 23, 2015 1:41 PM
64 PSBO 2014-07-08 It was inaugurated on 23 June and now it is the largest treatment plant in Europe. It is the most technologically important measure to improve the sewage network of the Rimini...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 9, 2015 4:29 PM
The Hera Group participated in a conference organized by Mediobanca which , in addition to one one one meetings , see the CEOs of the largest multi -utility companies in the country , committed to...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 10, 2015 11:54 AM
Protected Safe Bathing Area With a unique event in Italy Tuesday, 23 JUNE 2015 VIA FIUMICINO s.n.c., SANTA GIUSTINA DI RIMINI 10.30 am WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF: Andrea Gnassi, Mayor of Rimini...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 23, 2015 2:42 PM
Over the next 5 years, the plant will treat all the wastewater of the area, which includes the Municipalities of Rimini, Coriano, Santarcangelo, Verucchio, Poggio Torriana, Bellaria Igea Marina,...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 29, 2015 5:31 PM
2014 dividend payment Fiorenza Bavieri 2015-06-22 Fiorenza Bavieri sede_hera_110.1592477872.1603377620.jpg 655 00:00:00 00:00:00 2014 dividend payment 1055 1 0 0 2015-06-22
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Web Content Article on-date May 14, 2015 11:29 AM
Programme of the day: 9:30 a.m. Welcome Coffee 10.00 a.m. Tomaso Tommasi di Vignano Executive Chairman Opening session 10.15 a.m. Filippo Bocchi Director of Corporate Social Responsibility, Hera...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 16, 2015 10:21 AM
359 2014-07-08 "Get rid of the bill. Give your town a tree". That's what Hera recommends to its customers, relaunching the promotional eco-friendly billing campaign. The aim is to encourage...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 9, 2015 4:28 PM
The Senior Management of Hera presents 1Q2015 financial results to national and international investors, while participating in a thematic conference organized by Unicredit and Kepler Cheuvreux ...
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Web Content Article on-date May 26, 2015 12:49 PM
The event will take place from 11:45 to 13:15, at the HerAcademy Learning Center (HerAcademy room), in Viale Carto Berti Pichat 2/4 in Bologna, and will mark the conclusion of the first three-year...
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Web Content Article on-date May 28, 2015 2:57 PM
358 Regala un albero 2014-07-08 Having reached the target of 100,000 subscriptions and 2,000 trees two years earlier, a new one has been set: another 50,000 subscriptions to on-line billing. The...
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Web Content Article on-date May 22, 2015 11:10 AM
Genus Bononiae and the Fondazione Cassa di risparmio in Bologna are organising a conference on "Public services in local authority organisation and in the market" at the Biblioteca d'Arte e di...
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Web Content Article on-date Mar 12, 2015 5:22 PM
The Conference will be held at the Polytechnic University of Milan - Piacenza Campus - Room A - via Scalabrini 76 - Piacenza. The fundamental goal of MatER is to provide an in-depth portrayal of...
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Web Content Article on-date May 19, 2015 10:10 AM
357 HeraLAB 2014-07-08 The kiosks that sell piadinas are increasingly eco-friendly as a result of the "Your piadina loves the environment" campaign, presented this morning in the wonderful...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 20, 2015 12:43 PM
Meeting of the Board of Directors to approve the financial report for the quarter ending 31 March 2015. Contact IR Team for further information. Laura Micaletto 2015-05-13 Pietro Agostini -...
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Web Content Article on-date May 13, 2015 12:23 PM
Results for the first quarter of 2015 Financial highlights Revenues of €1,311.9 million (+7.1%) EBITDA of €277.2 million (+1.1%) Net profit of €92.5 million (+3.8%) Net debt of €2,556.7million ...
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Web Content Article on-date Dec 10, 2020 11:28 AM
In Septembre 2016 the Hera Group has presented to its stakeholders the Sustainability Report 2015. The event addressed the issues of resilience and innovation with the participation of Lucrezia...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 20, 2015 12:23 PM
General Meeting of Shareholders to approve the financial statements for the previous fiscal year (2014). Contact IR Team for further information. Laura Micaletto 2015-04-28 Pietro Agostini -...
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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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