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Web Content Article on-date Jun 5, 2019 3:48 PM
2019-06-05 (drafted pursuant to article 85-bis, paragraph 4-bis, of Consob Regulation 11971 / 14 May 1999) Bologna, 5 June 2019 - The following table contains the data concerning the shares...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 29, 2019 10:34 AM
Hera Group will attend IMT to meet students and future candidates. The initiative will be held on 17 May 2019 from 9.00 to 12.30 (Stadio Dallara). For more information: go to the website Career Day...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 6, 2019 10:03 AM
Meeting of the BoD to approve ad interim results as at 31 march 2019. The Board of Directors, as communicated for the previous financial year and in line with the past, in order to guarantee...
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Web Content Article on-date May 14, 2019 9:48 AM
2019-05-15 Results as at 31 March 2019 Consolidated 1Q report shows growing results and a positive contribution coming from all main business areas, in particular the water cycle and gas. Focus on...
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Web Content Article on-date May 15, 2019 12:32 PM
1Q_2019_110 Financial Highlights Revenues at 1,940,4 million euro (+11,4%) Ebitda at 330,8 million euro (+2,5%) Net profit at 129,7 million euro (+3,0%) Net financial position at 2,622 million...
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Web Content Article on-date May 10, 2019 3:39 PM
2019-05-10 Kindly note that as of today the minutes of the Shareholders Meeting held on 30 April 2019 are available at company headquarters, on the Hera Group's website (www.gruppohera.it), in the...
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Web Content Article on-date May 9, 2019 4:48 PM
2019-05-09 Nuova_Palazzina_1_870x.1533219432.jpg The multi-utility has consolidated its leadership in the waste management area by acquiring the entire shareholding of the company operating in...
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Web Content Article on-date May 9, 2019 1:04 PM
GH-Cosea_110 The Hera Group has been definitively awarded the tender for purchasing 100% of the shares of Cosea Ambiente S.p.A., a company managing urban and similar waste services owned by 20...
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Web Content Article on-date May 7, 2019 10:45 AM
2019-05-07 (drafted pursuant to article 85-bis, paragraph 4-bis, of Consob Regulation 11971 / 14 May 1999) Bologna, 7 May 2019 - The following table contains the data concerning the shares...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 18, 2019 9:19 AM
BS_online_110 The Hera Group's 2018 Sustainability Report, which can be found on-line at http://bs.gruppohera.it,contains the economic, social and environmental responsibility statistics and the...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 6, 2019 10:03 AM
During 2019 AGM financial results as at 31/12/2018 are approved and major fiscal year events are presented to shareholders, with special focus on CSR and creation of shared value key indicators. ...
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Web Content Article on-date Apr 30, 2019 1:41 PM
2019-04-30 HERA_assemblea_azionisti.1556626141.jpg The multi-utility, included in the FTSE MIB as of 18 March 2019, improved all its main operating-financial and sustainability indicators, with...
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Web Content Article on-date Apr 29, 2019 5:33 PM
Shareholders_meeting_110 The Hera Ordinary Shareholders Meeting called to approve the 2018 financial statements was held in Bologna this morning, and the 2018 sustainability report (a consolidated...
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Web Content Article on-date Apr 18, 2019 2:49 PM
2019-04-18 Bologna, 18 April 2019 - The following table contains the data concerning the shares outstanding and the number of voting rights representing the share capital at 17 April 2019. ...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 5, 2021 2:44 PM
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Web Content Article on-date Apr 16, 2019 12:32 PM
702 2016 Economics results - Comments of the Hera Group President 2014-03-20 540 Michele Marsigli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2rtLBrP54Q 2016 Economics results - Comments of the Hera Group...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 23, 2019 2:35 PM
GH-IMAB_110 The Hera Group, one of the leading Italian multi-utility companies, has reached an agreement with IMAB, a historic national furniture manufacturer, for the construction of a...
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Web Content Article on-date Apr 11, 2019 9:48 AM
378 2019-04-11 The third edition of HeraSolidale has already obtained extraordinary results: thanks to the donations of Hera employees, the contribution of Hera Comm and its customers, 8 months...
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Web Content Article on-date Apr 8, 2019 3:09 PM
Aism - Associazione Italiana Sclerosi Multipla, Butterfly ONLUS, D.i.Re - Donne in Rete contro la violenza, Fondazione ANT Italia ONLUS e Save the Children. These are the five non-profit...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 26, 2019 12:55 PM
Herasolidale_110 Aism - Associazione Italiana Sclerosi Multipla, Butterfly ONLUS, D.i.Re - Donne in Rete contro la violenza, Fondazione ANT Italia ONLUS e Save the Children. These are the five...
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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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