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Web Content Article on-date May 7, 2018 11:37 AM
2018-05-10 Results as at 31 March 2018 The consolidated quarterly report at 31 March shows growth in all operating and financial indicators, with a positive contribution coming from all business...
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Web Content Article on-date May 10, 2018 12:49 PM
Hera BoD approves 1Q 2018 results Financial highlights Revenues at € 1,741.3 million (+10.4%) Ebitda at € 322.7 million (+5.2%) Net profits for shareholders at € 120.5 million (+9.6%) Net debt...
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Web Content Article on-date May 10, 2018 12:19 PM
2 CE 2018-02-22 Hera is one of 13 companies and associations which, together with the Foundation for Sustainable Development, have created the Circular Economy Network, the circularity...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 24, 2018 5:37 PM
Hera is one of 13 companies and associations which, together with the Foundation for Sustainable Development, have created the Circular Economy Network, the circularity observatory in Italy. The...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 14, 2017 12:49 PM
During 2018 AGM financial results as at 31/12/2017 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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Hera Shareholders Meeting: 2017 financial statements and dividends rising to 9.5 cent/share approved
Web Content Article on-date Apr 26, 2018 1:10 PM
president_110 Hera's Ordinary Shareholders Meeting called to approve the 2017 financial statements was held in Bologna this morning. Furthermore, the 2017 sustainability report (a consolidated...
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Hera Shareholders Meeting: 2017 financial statements and dividends rising to 9.5 cent/share approved
Web Content Article on-date Apr 24, 2018 4:03 PM
2018-04-26 Improvement seen in all operating-financial and sustainability indicators, with results exceeding expectations and a renewed commitment to creating shared value. Appointment of...
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Web Content Article on-date Apr 19, 2018 4:53 PM
LUOTW_110 The Hera Group - Italy's second operator in the water cycle, with 300 million m 3 of water sold and 3.6 million citizens served - has now become part of the Leading Utilities of the World...
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Web Content Article on-date Apr 19, 2018 3:09 PM
2018-04-18 Hera_SpA_2380_GWI_870_1524149606.1533218688.jpg The first Italian company to be admitted within this network, Hera confirms the international standing of its activities in the water...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 29, 2018 3:29 PM
Hera Group will participate this year at the initiative of the University of Milan promoted by the MIP - International Polytechnic Master. The initiative will be held Friday, April 13, 2018 from...
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Web Content Article on-date Apr 9, 2018 11:16 AM
647 2016 Economics results - Comments of the Hera Group President 2014-03-20 360 Fiorenza Bavieri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGdob5-lsTw 2016 Economics results - Comments of the Hera Group...
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Web Content Article on-date Apr 6, 2018 11:18 AM
2018-04-06 Hera_Italgas870_1513853697.1533218766.jpg All conditions set forth in the agreement having been fulfilled, the 100% divestment of the company holding concessions for gas distribution and...
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Web Content Article on-date Apr 6, 2018 10:28 AM
Tommasi_Galli_Venier110 Hera and Italgas completed today in Milan the transfer of 100% of Medea S.p.A., the company holding the concession for gas distribution and sales in the city of Sassari....
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Web Content Article on-date Apr 4, 2018 4:36 PM
2018-04-04 Publication of the draft Separate and consolidated financial statements at 31/12/2017, the Sustainability report - consolidated non-financial statement and Shareholders meeting...
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Web Content Article on-date Apr 6, 2018 11:43 AM
3 SR2017 2018-02-22 As of April 4 Hera's new sustainability report for 2017 can now be viewed online. With a completely new format, the report once again underlines our strong commitment to our...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 14, 2017 12:44 PM
Meeting of the BoD to approve Financial Results as at 31/12/2017. 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 Mar 22, 2018 12:19 PM
2018-03-27 be2017_870x320_slide_eng.1522151642.jpg Improvement seen in all operating, financial and sustainability indicators. These results, which exceeded expectations, crown a path of...
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Web Content Article on-date Mar 27, 2018 1:00 PM
Hera Group approves results at 31/12/2017 Financial highlights Turnover at € 6,136.9 million (+10.3%) EBITDA at € 984.6 million (+7.4%) Net profits at € 266.8 million (+21.1%) Net debt improves,...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 29, 2018 3:14 PM
Hera Group will take part in the initiative to be held on Friday 23 March 2018 from 9.00 to 17.30 at the University of Ferrara. For more information: go to the website of the University of Ferrara...
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Web Content Article on-date Mar 20, 2018 5:22 PM
2018-03-20 Nuova_Palazzina_1_870x.1533219432.jpg Headquartered in Atessa (Chieti), Sangroservizi offers natural gas sales services to roughly 7,000 customers. Following the recent acquisition of...
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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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