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Web Content Article on-date Jan 22, 2021 12:25 PM
The meeting of the BoD to approve the Business Plan 2019-2023 will be held on January 13, 2021. The BoD will meet in Bologna - Viale Berti Pichat 2/4 40127 Bologna. A press release on the board's...
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Web Content Article on-date Nov 12, 2020 1:00 PM
The Hera Group will take part in the third edition of “Utilities and Infrastructure Conference”, organized by Mediobanca in Australia. Fiorenza Bavieri 2020-11-30 Fiorenza Bavieri ...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 7, 2019 10:49 AM
The meeting of the BoD to approve ad interimresults as at 30 September 2020 will be held on 11 November 2020. The Board of Directors, as communicated for the previous financial year and in line...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 7, 2019 10:31 AM
The meeting of the BoD to approve ad interimresults as at 30 June 2020 will be held on 29 July 2020. The BoD will meet in Bologna - Viale Berti Pichat 2/4 40127 Bologna. A press release on the...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 7, 2019 10:46 AM
The meeting of the BoD to approve ad interim results as at 31 March 2020 will be held on 13 May 2020. The Board of Directors, as communicated for the previous financial year and in line with the...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 7, 2019 10:28 AM
During 2020 AGM financial results as at 31/12/2019 will be approved and major fiscal year events will be presented to shareholders, with a special focus on CSR and creation of shared value key...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 7, 2019 10:22 AM
The meeting of the BoD to approve the Financial Results as at 31/12/2019 will be held on 25 March 2020. The BoD will meet in Bologna - Viale Berti Pichat 2/4 40127 Bologna. A press release on the...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 7, 2019 10:14 AM
The meeting of the BoD to approve the Business Plan 2019-2023 will be held in the first half of January, approximately between 7 and 15 January 2020 (date to be announced). The BoD will meet in...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 7, 2019 10:19 AM
The road show, dedicated to institutional investors, to present the Business plan to 2023 will be organised on January and February. Dates and locations will be announced asap. The event will be...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 6, 2019 10:03 AM
Meeting of the BoD approves financial results as at 30 September 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 Jul 29, 2019 2:26 PM
A selection of Italian public and private infrastructure companies will meet the international financial community to discuss their strategic and financial prospects. The event is organized in...
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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 30 june 2019. The BoD will meet in Bologna - Viale Berti Pichat 2/4 40127 Bologna at 11 am CEST. A press release on the board's discussions...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 29, 2019 4:01 PM
Hera's senior management takes part in the second edition of the Italian Sustainability Day at Palazzo Mezzanotte - Borsa Italiana. The aim of the day is to support the dialogue between listed...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 29, 2019 3:54 PM
870x320_.1564660703.png Fiorenza Bavieri 2019-06-24 Fiorenza Bavieri sede_hera_110.1592478681.jpg 795 00:00:00 Tommaso Tomasi di Vignano e Sefano Venier 23:59:00 Ex date on 24 June 2019 and...
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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 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 Feb 6, 2019 10:03 AM
Meeting of the BoD to approve Financial Results as at 31/12/2018. The BoD will meet in Bologna - Viale Berti Pichat 2/4 40127 Bologna at 11 am CEST. A press release on the board's discussions and...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 11, 2018 12:34 PM
The event is a special showcase dedicated to Italian listed companies, and especially the North-Eastern ones, which will have the opportunity to meet institutional, Italian and international...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 22, 2017 11:37 AM
Meeting of the BoD approves financial results as at 30 September 2018. 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 Jul 11, 2018 12:28 PM
A selection of Italian public and private infrastructure companies will meet the international financial community to discuss their strategic and financial prospects. Attending companies: A2A -...
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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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