Author: adigiuseppe

Milan, 8 December 2020 – For the fourth consecutive year Italgas has been recognised by CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) for its efforts in the fight against climate change, through the confirmation of the “B” score for Climate Change. This score ranks Italgas in the “Management band”, above the European average – equal to “C” – and at the same level as the Energy Utilities Network sector.

Among other elements, CDP acknowledged the important work carried out by the Company, which compared to last year has significantly improved the score assigned to the “Scope 1&2 emissions” and “Emission reduction initiatives” categories.

Italgas is a leader in Italy in the gas distribution sector and third in Europe, it is present in over 1860 Italian municipalities with a historical presence in the major cities of Rome, Turin, Venice, Florence and Naples.

CDP is a non-profit organisation that assesses its performance in the field of climate change every year. This year more than 9,600 companies worldwide answered its questionnaires.

Milan, 9 December 2020 – Italgas has obtained for the third consecutive year the UNI ISO 37001:2016 anti-corruption certification, achieving its extension also to the “anti-corruption government” of all Group companies, as well as the subsidiary Italgas Reti, which had already achieved it last year.

As confirmation of  their commitment to legal compliance, in 2020 Toscana Energia, Medea, Italgas Acqua, Gaxa, Seaside, Umbria Distribuzione and Metano Sant’Angelo Lodigiano also introduced a system for preventing and combating corruption, adopted on a voluntary basis and certified in accordance with the internationally recognised standard.

The management system for prevention and combating has been verified by the independent certification body DNV GL Business Assurance, after in-depth analysis that have confirmed its adequacy and compliance with the required requirements, as well as its effective implementation.

“Legality, transparency, corporate responsibility, integrity – commented Italgas CEO, Paolo Gallo – are just some of the values that make up the polar star of our daily actions. That’s why I consider the achievement of anti-corruption certification for the third consecutive year and its extension to all Group companies to be significant results that are at the same time coherent with the activities that we carry out every day along our network, serving 7,7 million customers all over the country“.

Milan, 16 November 2020 – Italgas has confirmed its position as one of the world’s top sustainability leaders thanks to the inclusion, for the second consecutive year, in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index World, the index managed by S&P Global which includes companies that have excelled globally on sustainability issues.

This result is even more important in consideration of the growing number of companies that aspire to be admitted or confirmed in the index and the increasingly stringent analysis criteria adopted to identify the best performers in terms of sustainability.

Especially, Italgas has been recognised for the progress achieved in Supply Chain Management and Environmental Reporting. This recognition rewards the company’s ability to develop increasingly accurate and transparent reporting, also thanks to the use of innovative technologies and methodologies.

The inclusion confirms Italgas’ ever-increasing focus on sustainability as an integral part of daily action and growth strategy, as well as a further source of value creation for all stakeholders.

A partnership on transversal themes of research, innovation and higher education

Turin 30 July 2020 – Develop joint research, innovation and training activities to support energy transition, sustainable mobility, circular economy. These are the objectives of the partnership signed today between Politecnico di Torino and Italgas, a leading company in Italy and third in Europe in the natural gas distribution sector, founded almost two centuries ago in the Piedmontese capital.

On the one hand research, development and innovation, on the other hand  education , advanced training and lifelonglearning.

The University and the Company will collaborate on research projects ranging from more general issues – such as digital innovation, sustainable mobility, optimization of energy consumption, efficiency of networks and recovery of resources – to more specific actions aimed at the development of innovative technologies for the inclusion of renewable gas in existing networks, the development of “power to gas” systems for the recovery of surplus energy production, to the creation of an advanced gas smart meter for “intelligent” networks.

Politecnico and Italgas will also work on different training fronts, where collaboration will be an opportunity for exchange and active interaction between teachers, researchers, students and the company with joint projects aimed at developing university masters, courses for recent graduates, events and dissemination activities through national and international networks. Italgas will also provide lecturers and researchers with the spaces and skills of its Digital Factory, the real engine of the digital transformation of the Company’s assets and processes.

“The collaboration with a company of Turin origin such as Italgas on wide-ranging and strategically important issues such as energy is also a great pleasure for us to reaffirm that our city can contribute significantly to the growth of the country,” comments the Rector of the Politecnico Guido Saracco.

“For Italgas – explained the CEO, Paolo Gallo – technological innovation and digitisation are a top priority and a lever for growth. In this context, the collaboration with an University of excellence such as the Politecnico di Torino is a great opportunity that comes true. We are thrilled to be able to work together on research and training projects of great strategic importance not only for our Company but for the whole country, which will benefit from the results we will achieve, and at the same time contribute to the training of future talents“.

Next Monday the official activation of the conversion to methane gas of the networks of 36 municipalities in Basins 7, 9 and 22

Alghero (Sassari), 29 July 2020 – Methane in Sardinia is finally a reality. The first natural gas will in fact be distributed on the island from Monday, August 3 in Alghero, with the commissioning of the network part of Petraia, the area close to the seafront in via Lido.

At the same time, with the sending of the communications to the administrations involved, technical activities for the conversion to methane of the distribution networks of the 36 municipalities in Basins 7, 9 and 22 currently fed with LPG also began. The conversion plan foresees the completion of activities between 2020 and the first half of 2021, preferring periods of the year when the climate is still sufficiently mild.

“The beginning of the distribution of methane in Sardinia – commented Italgas CEO Paolo Gallo – is a historic moment for the island, its communities and the whole of Italy. And I am proud that it is Italgas, the company that with its almost two centuries of history has always accompanied the development of the country. Sardinia is the most effective example of our ability to innovate and make investments in the short term. We have completed 65% of the 1,100 kilometres of the total network and – after Alghero – an increasing number of people will be able to take advantage of the important benefits that methane guarantees, starting with savings in bills of up to 30%. In fact, in recent months in the basins where we operate we have already collected more than 35,000 requests for connections, demonstrating a constantly growing demand and a sign of a need that we want to satisfy in a short time”.

The section affected by the first commissioning, which will be carried out by tanker wagon, extends for more than 6.5 kilometres, along which more than 250 preparations have already been made for the same number of connection requests signed.

Alghero is part, together with Olmedo, of Basin 6 for which 97 kilometres of network are planned, 63 of which have already been built in accordance with Italgas’ plans to build “native digital” networks on the island, i.e. equipped with integrated sensors, remote control and proprietary applications developed in the Italgas Digital Factory, as well as preparation for the installation of optical fibre to serve Italgas networks and telecommunications operators.

As far as LPG to methane covers are concerned, the operational plan foresees the completion of the activities by 2020 for the Municipalities of Putifigari (Basin 7), Berchidda, Ittireddu, Tula, Ozieri (Basin 9), Cardedu, Esclalaplano, Urzulei (Basin 22); in the first half of 2021 in the remaining municipalities of Basins 7 (Cargeghe, Ittiri, Muros, Ossi, Tissi, Uri, Usini) and 22 (Arzana, Bari Sardo, Baunei, Elini, Gairo, Girasole, Ilbono), Lanusei, Loceri, Lotzorai, Osini, Perdasdefogu, Seui, Telana, Tertenia, Tortolì, Triei, Ulassai, Ussassai, Villagrande Strisaili) with extension also to the municipality of Pattada (Basin 10).

In all Municipalities, the activities will be preceded by public meetings to explain to residents how the work will be carried out, what to do to activate the supply of natural gas, provide all the information for a better use of the service.

Through Medea, the Group’s distribution company, Italgas is present in 17 of the 38 basins into which Sardinia is divided, including the main capitals. Italgas began operating on the island in 2017 through the acquisition of several operators and concessions. As part of an investment plan from 500 million euros to 2025, the company has planned the construction of about 1,100 kilometers of “native digital pipelines. The works are in an advanced state in all the concession areas, for a total of over 680 kilometres of network laid. An intervention which, in addition to the future benefits associated with the use of an economic and sustainable energy source such as natural gas for businesses and individuals, has already contributed to the creation of over 600 new jobs.