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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Jun 29, 2020 3:31 PM
SI Giuseppe Gagliano Group Manager of Communication and External Relations Born in Rome in 1963. Since January 2010 he has been the Group manager of communication and external relations and is...
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SI Franco Fogacci Group Manager of Waste Management and Fleets Born in Bologna in 1957. Since January 2021, he has been the Group Manager of Waste Management and Fleets and is responsible for...
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SI Mila Fabbri Legal and Corporate Affairs Group Manager Born in Casalfiumanese (BO) in 1958. Since November 2002, she has been the Hera Group's Legal and Corporate Affairs Group Manager, with...
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SI Executive Chairman and Market Group Manager ad interim Born in Forlì in 1970. Since 27 April 2023, Executive Chairman of the Hera Group. From April 2014 to April 2023 Market Group Manager and...
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SI Giancarlo Campri Personnel and Organisation Group Manager Born in La Spezia in 1957. Since November 2002 he has been Personnel and Organisation Group Manager for the Hera Group, with...
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Replacing the traditional paper bill... Plant a tree! SI Filippo Bocchi Manager of Shared Value and Sustainability Born in Fidenza (PR) in 1969. Since March 2019, he has been Manager of Shared...
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SI Roberto Barilli General Manager - Operations Roberto Barilli was born in Bologna in 1951. He has a degree in civil engineering, lives in Castel Maggiore (BO) and has two children. He began his...
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SI Stefano Venier Hera Group Chief Executive Officer from April 2014 to April 2022 Born in Udine in 1963. He resigned as Hera Group Chief Executive Officer, with effect from 26 April 2022, to hold...
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SI Carmine Artone Director of Informations Systems Carmine Artone was born in Naples in 1967. Since 2020 he has been Director of Information Systems in the Innovation Management Department of...
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SI Federico Bronzini Chief Executive Officer of INRETE Distribuzione Energia S.p.A. Born in Imola in 1976. In January 2021, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of INRETE Distribuzione...
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SI Carlo Andriolo General Manager at AcegasApsAmga S.p.A. Born in Pordenone in 1973. Since April 23, 2024, he has served as the Group Manager of AcegasApsAmga, overseeing the management of gas,...
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SI Gabriele Giacobazzi Vice Chairman Gabriele Giacobazzi was born in Secchia (MO) on 4 July 1949. He serves as Adjunct Professor at the Department of Engineering of the University of Modena and...
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Web Content Article · written-by LUCIA ALGISI on-date Jun 29, 2020 1:46 PM
No Archive Diversity and inclusion in Hera Group Investing in Hera means investing in sustainability, diversity, equality and inclusion Hera began to make efforts in the area of inclusion...
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No Diversity Pillars Inclusion pillars People development Controversies A multi-stakeholder approach to diversity and inclusion Diversity and inclusion in Hera Group The Group began to make...
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Web Content Article · written-by LUCIA ALGISI on-date Jun 29, 2020 12:58 PM
SI Hera brings its own strategy into line with universal principles concerning human rights, the environment and the fight against corruption. Its approach to sustainability management has been...
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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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