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Web Content Article · written-by Davide Donnarumma on-date Jun 27, 2023 1:15 PM
No Material topics Contents of the sustainability report are identified through a process of analysis and identification of material topics for the Group and its stakeholders (materiality...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Jun 23, 2023 10:55 AM
SI “In over 20 years, we have achieved ambitious growth and value creation goals by working to eliminate the carbon neutrality of our activities and those of our customers, the regeneration of...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Jun 23, 2023 10:16 AM
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Jun 22, 2023 2:26 PM
SI Contacts Phone: +39 051 287111 Fax: 051 287525 HERA SpA Viale Carlo Berti Pichat nr. 2/4 - 40127 Bologna NO No Centrato
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Jul 5, 2023 10:56 AM
Coupon date on June 19, 2023, and payment on June 21, 2023 The dividend, amounting to 12.5-euro cent, shows an increase over the past and in line with what had previously been announced in Annual...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Jun 15, 2023 6:00 PM
2023-06-15 Lorenzo Minganti, a non-executive and independent member of Hera S.p.A.’s Board of Directors and of the Company’s Control and Risk Committee, has announced his resignation, due to...
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Web Content Article · written-by Davide Donnarumma on-date Jul 18, 2023 3:21 PM
Among Italy’s top companies for the last three years, we rank second in 2023 thanks to our full and deliberate integration of sustainability policies into its business strategies and governance...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Jun 14, 2023 11:39 AM
2023-06-14 Hera achieves second place in the overall ranking published by the index measuring the degree to which ESG factors are integrated within the governance of Italy’s top 100 listed...
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Web Content Article · written-by Davide Donnarumma on-date Jul 18, 2023 3:19 PM
Among Italy’s top companies for the last three years, we rank second in 2023 thanks to our full and deliberate integration of sustainability policies into its business strategies and governance...
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Web Content Article · written-by LUCIA ALGISI on-date Jun 14, 2023 12:58 PM
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Jun 14, 2023 12:05 PM
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Jun 14, 2023 12:08 PM
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Web Content Article · written-by LUCIA ALGISI on-date Jun 14, 2023 10:39 AM
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Web Content Article · written-by LUCIA ALGISI on-date Jul 3, 2020 8:33 AM
SI Paola Gina Maria Schwizer was born in Milan on 30 May 1965. Since 2003, she has been Professor of Economics of Financial Intermediaries at Parma University and has held the “Risk management and...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date Nov 15, 2023 10:54 AM
As of 23 May 2023, the SAP SRM supplier portal will be supported by the new Hera_Pro platform. What changes if you are already a supplier to the Hera Group? All tender procedures that started on an...
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Web Content Article · written-by LUCIA ALGISI on-date May 22, 2023 9:31 PM
SI Have you already activated your account? Sign in to the new portal. Log in NO No Centrato
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Web Content Article · written-by LUCIA ALGISI on-date May 22, 2023 9:28 PM
No <h2>Are you already a supplier to the Hera Group? Find out what changes await you</h2> All tender procedures that started before 23 May 2023 will be completed on the current ‘SAP SRM’ portal....
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date May 22, 2023 5:02 PM
SI If you are an existing supplier to the Hera Group To access the new platform, you just need to check the email account of the main contact person you have named in your profile. You...
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Web Content Article · written-by Palvi Andrea Tonziello on-date May 22, 2023 4:44 PM
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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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