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Web Content Article on-date Jun 18, 2020 1:04 PM
2020-06-18 Today, Hera acquired 4,688,231 Ascopiave shares from A2A, equivalent to 2% of the share capital, for a price set at 3.905 euro per share and a total of roughly 18.3 million euro. Today,...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 18, 2020 1:04 PM
2020-06-18 Today, Hera acquired 4,688,231 Ascopiave shares from A2A, equivalent to 2% of the share capital, for a price set at 3.905 euro per share and a total of roughly 18.3 million euro. Hera...
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Web Content Article on-date May 11, 2020 9:49 AM
2020-05-13 Q1 2020 results The consolidated quarterly report at 31 March shows growth in results, thanks to the contribution coming from the Group's main business areas. Value continues to be...
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Web Content Article on-date May 13, 2020 3:19 PM
2020-05-13 In a meeting held today, Hera S.p.A.'s Board of Directors assessed the independence of its own members, appointed by the Shareholders Meeting convened for 29 April 2020. Based on...
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Web Content Article on-date May 8, 2020 10:48 AM
2020-05-08 Kindly note that as of today the minutes of the Shareholders Meeting held on 29 April 2020, as well as the articles of association containing the amendments approved by the...
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Web Content Article on-date May 21, 2020 11:29 AM
2020-05-07 The focus of the 2019 Sustainability Report goes to the areas served and the creation of shared value. The Group thus confirms its efforts in responding to today's environmental and...
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Web Content Article on-date Apr 29, 2020 4:22 PM
2020-04-29 The Group continues along its path of growth, creating value for shareholders and local areas. Continuity in governance, with the new Board of Directors confirming Tomaso Tommasi di...
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Web Content Article on-date Apr 8, 2020 12:26 PM
2020-04-08 riunione.1501227958.jpg Publication of documents related to the AGM of 27 April 2017 The lists containing candidates for the appointment of the Board of Directors and the board of...
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Web Content Article on-date Apr 7, 2020 7:23 AM
2020-04-07 Publication of the draft Separate and consolidated financial statements at 31/12/2019 Kindly note that the following documents, approved by the Hera S.p.A. Board of Directors, have been...
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Web Content Article on-date Apr 2, 2020 4:19 PM
2020-04-03 With reference to the Extraordinary and Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting of Hera S.p.A., convened at the registered office in Bologna, Viale C. Berti Pichat no. 2/4, for the day of 29...
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Web Content Article on-date Mar 23, 2020 9:32 AM
2020-03-25 Financial results as at 31/12/2019 The Group, included one year ago in the FTSE MIB, closed the year with improvement in all main results, continuing along its path of uninterrupted...
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Web Content Article on-date Mar 17, 2020 8:27 AM
2020-03-17 Kindly note that the following documentation, pertaining to the Shareholders Meeting convened for 29 April 2020, is available to the public at the Company headquarters, on the...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 31, 2020 8:47 AM
2020-01-31 Hera acquires 2.5% of Ascopiave's share capital from Amber Hera acquires 2.5% of Ascopiave's share capital from Amber. The shareholding purchase operation, which arose from a market...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 30, 2020 1:11 PM
2020-01-30 Tomaso Tommasi di Vignano - Hera's Executive Chairman The Group has been certified for the eleventh consecutive year, rewarding a strategic management that focuses on people and gets...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 24, 2020 4:11 PM
2020-01-24 The multi-utility has now become part of this index, which measures gender equality and the promotion of diversity and inclusion, examining 325 listed companies, 10 of which Italian, in...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 21, 2020 10:24 AM
2020-01-21 Calendar of events 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.",...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 10, 2020 10:35 AM
2020-01-10 In light of the positive preliminary results for 2019, showing higher growth than expected in the previous Plan, and the M&A transactions carried out, the Group has presented its new...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 10, 2020 10:35 AM
2020-01-10 In light of the positive preliminary results for 2019, showing higher growth than expected in the previous Plan, and the M&A transactions carried out, the Group has presented its new...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 3, 2020 1:54 PM
2020-01-03 (drafted pursuant to article 85-bis, paragraph 4-bis, of Consob Regulation 11971 / 14 May 1999) Communication of the overall amount of voting rights Bologna, 3 January 2020 - The...
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Web Content Article on-date Dec 19, 2019 6:08 PM
2019-12-19 Gruppo Hera e Ascopiave The transaction between the two companies, finalised today, marks the birth, through EstEnergy, of the largest energy operator in North-Eastern Italy, whose BoD...
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An investment of Euro 37 million. A plant that disposes of 100 thousand tonnes of organic waste produced by separate waste collection and another 35 thousand tonnes coming from green waste and pruning material.
An investment of Euro 37 million. A plant that disposes of 100 thousand tonnes of organic waste produced by separate waste collection and another 35 thousand tonnes coming from green waste and pruning material. And that, once "digested", produce 7.5 million cubic meters of biomethane fuel that is 100% renewable and 20 thousand tonnes of compost.
These numbers tell the success story of our state-of-the-art plant in Sant'Agata Bolognese, just outside Bologna: the latest great and ambitious project to add to our long list of waste treatment facilities (89 in total, including waste-to-energy plants, composters, and sorting plants). With one big goal: to relaunch the challenge of renewables on an industrial scale and make this plant a reference structure for green energy in Europe.
Biomethane: a clean resource of biological origin
But what makes this natural gas source organic? Simply, the way to get it: not by drilling for hidden deposits in the deepest parts of the Earth but by fermenting organic waste in plants designed to do so. Biomethane can, therefore, be produced for as long as you want, it is endless, and production can be increased simply by building other plants. Making the process one of the purest examples of the circular economy.
In Spilamberto, a biodigester converted into a biomethane plant
An innovative plant for the production of biomethane came into operation in October 2023 in Spilamberto, in the Modena area. It was created by NewCo Biorg, the result of the partnership between the Hera Group and the Inalca company (Cremonini Group), thanks to a total investment of approximately 28 million euros and the use of the best available technologies.
Starting from the separate collection of organic waste and agri-food wastewater, the plant - created from the conversion of an old biodigester - produces 3.7 million cubic meters of biomethane every year when fully operational, a 100% renewable fuel intended for transport, and approximately 18 thousand tons of compost.
A cutting-edge plant for the energy transition and the circular economy
The 100% renewable natural gas is produced in the plant from the anaerobic digestion of organic waste coming from the separate collection carried out mainly in Modena and its district, from the waste resulting from the manufacturing process of the local agri-food industry and from the production process of Inalca's meat. Once refined, it becomes biomethane and can be introduced into the gas network.
The environmental benefits are important: around 7 thousand tonnes of CO₂ are avoided
Thanks to the introduction of biomethane into the network and its use in transport, significant environmental benefits are estimated: every year the use of approximately 3 thousand tonnes of fossil fuel oil equivalent (TOE) will be saved and CO₂ emissions will be avoided for approximately 7 thousand tons. To absorb such a quantity of CO₂, an average of 280 thousand trees would be needed.
What happens in our sant’agata facility
Organic waste, obtained through separate waste collection, is processed by anaerobic digestion to produce biogas. How? The waste, shredded and screened, remains for about 21 days in 4 horizontal digesters, where suitable microorganisms carry out the digestion process to produce biogas (consisting of natural gas and carbon dioxide).
Then the biogas is upgraded using pressurized water to dissolve the carbon dioxide and separate the natural gas. The result is biomethane, a gas with a methane content of over 95% and a completely renewable energy source.
But that's not all. At the end of the digestion process, wood-cellulosic material is added to the resulting solid matter to obtain a compact mass that is sent to composting, to produce quality compost, which can be used as potting soil for vases or as a fertiliser in agriculture.
Come find out more about our Sant'Agata Bolognese plant.
Biomethane is, therefore, another revolution based on the circular economy, which all of us in the Hera Group want to pursue. Again, to create shared value, as Herambiente's CEO, Andrea Ramonda, is determined to emphasize:
“The direction we have taken addresses the industrial world as increasingly oriented towards creating shared value and partnerships. We are aware that sustainable waste management, focused on the recovery of waste and compliant with the rules, is an essential factor in today's world, and one that delivers benefits to the entire community).
The idea of the exhibition came from the photographic project commissioned in 2018 to Silvia Camporesi on the occasion of the work being done on the Sant'Agata Bolognese site. The report has been enriched with other shots, thus becoming the complete story of the development of the plant.
The exhibition consists of 11 large-format photographic works which reveal where and how waste takes another form and becomes biofuel. Technology, innovation, industrial process, efficiency, circularity are the messages underlying each of the images captured by the artist.
Silvia Camporesi visited the plant every month for a whole year, documenting the evolution and changes to the facility.
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