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Web Content Article on-date Feb 25, 2022 9:22 AM
Top Utility According to Top Utility, we are the leading Italian utility in terms of economic and financial policies, sustainability, research and innovation, communication and the positive effects...
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Hera for the Planet, People and Prosperity
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Hera for the Planet, People and Prosperity
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 1, 2022 1:59 PM
Gold Class 2022 We are once again a global gold medal winner for sustainability, for the second consecutive year. The S&P Global 2022 Gold Class award was announced together with the publication of...
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20 Gold Class 2022 We are once again a global gold medal winner for sustainability, for the second consecutive year. The S&P Global 2022 Gold Class award was announced together with the publication...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 1, 2022 12:28 PM
2022-02-01 For the second time in a row, Hera has been awarded the S&P Global Gold Class Sustainability Award. This is the highest recognition reserved for listed companies included in the Dow...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Jan 28, 2022 5:09 PM
The meeting of the BoD to approve ad interim results as at 30 June 2022 will be held on 27 July 2022. The BoD will meet in Bologna - Viale Berti Pichat 2/4 40127 Bologna. A press release on the...
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The meeting of the BoD to approve ad interim results as at 30 September 2022 will be held on 9 November 2022. The Board of Directors, as communicated for the previous financial year and in line...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 28, 2022 10:55 AM
2022-01-28 Sede Hera CALENDAR OF CORPORATE EVENTS (*) In accordance with art. 2.6.2 (Required Reporting) of the “Rules of the markets organised and managed by Borsa Italiana S.p.A.", please find...
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2022-01-27 The new five-year strategic document builds on the Group’s path of growth, with investments coming to over 3.8 billion and concrete energy transition and circular economy projects. The...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 27, 2022 4:12 PM
Business Plan to 2025 A Plan that combines growth, value creation and sustainable development Today, the Hera Group’s Board of Directors approved the Business Plan to 2025, which consolidates the...
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2022-01-26 This year, for the third year in a row, Hera has been included in the international index assessing gender equality, diversity and inclusion Sede Hera The Hera Group has confirmed its...
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Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index 2022 In 2022, we have been included, for the third consecutive time, in the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, confirming and improving its results in all areas...
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20 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index 2022 In 2022, we have been included, for the third consecutive time, in the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, confirming and improving its results in all areas...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 20, 2022 3:57 PM
SI A story that looks to the future, enclosed in a sign Important anniversaries are celebrated with a memorable symbol: and to celebrate Hera Group’s 20th anniversary, we have created a brand...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 20, 2022 3:55 PM
Si #00A19B Twenty years together Bianco Si GRUPPO
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 20, 2022 9:34 AM
2022-01-20 Once again among Italy’s highest ranked employers, this year second place overall among companies nationwide for outstanding human resource management, Hera has reached its first...
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Top Employer Italy 2022 The start of a new year is always an occasion to look back in time, but even more so to look forward, taking a look at results and focusing on new objectives. 2022 marks the...
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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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