Ivy created in 2014 a total added value of 1.387,2 million euro. The result, achieved thanks to the company acquisitions and including the contribution of AcegasApsAmga, records an increase of 32,4 million compared to 2013 (+ 2,4%). This was communicated by the Bolognese multiutility, which today published on its website the sustainability report, specifying that most of the added value (497 million euros, equal to 35,8%) was destined for workers.
As it regards instead the wealth distributed throughout the territory – continues the note – the figure stands at 1.591,7 million, 74% of the total, resulting from the sum of the added value distributed to Hera's main local interlocutors (1.085,5 million in all to workers, shareholders, public administration and the local community) and the economic value of supplies from local entities (506,2 ,XNUMX millions).
From the indicators relating to environmental sustainability – underlines Hera – it emerges that in the area served by the company the service costs in the waste management they are 23% lower than the national average. The use of landfills involved 12,9% of the waste disposed of (down from 16,4% in 2013 and from 49% in 2002), against a 2014 average of 38% in Italy and 31% in Europe, while the separate waste collection went from 52,6% in 2013 to 54% in 2014.
Furthermore, out of a total of 346,1 million euros of gross investments in networks in 2014, 114,8 million concerned the water sector. As for the workforce, the total induced employment generated by the company has 8.510 direct workers (of which 97% with permanent contracts) and 6.781 indirect workers, for a total of 15.291 units. On the energy frontfinally, in 2014 over 2/3 of the group's electrical and thermal energy production came from renewable sources.
