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Appendix: Companies' Profiles Appendix: Companies’ Profles In this Appendix we have gathered data on several dimensions (geographic, fnan- cial, strategic, etc.) of the companies who have participated to the drafting of this book. In the fgure it is possible to have a general overview of the territories served by the companies considered. Given the scale of the map, small portions of terri- tory served by other companies or by municipalities, have not been represented for the sake of clarity. The areas of activities of the companies in the sample presented in the map include also industrial partnerships with other actors of the integrated water service and subsidiaries operations. © Springer International Publishing AG 2018 323 A. Gilardoni (ed.), The Italian Water Industry, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71336-6 324 Appendix: Companies’ Profles Map of Optimal Territorial Areas served by the companies considered in this work Appendix: Companies’ Profles 325 A2A S.p.A. General information Core business Electricity Gas Water Waste Other ü ü ü ü ü Water Water supply business Transmission Wastewater Water Sewerage and water Distribution treatment capture purifcation ü ü ü ü ü Technical data Distributed Water Water supply Sewerage volumes customers networks (km) (mln mc) (mln) (km) 70.56 0.6 3,600 2,200 Geographical A2A S.p.A. manages the integrated water service in the Province of Brescia presence through its subsidiary A2A Ciclo Idrico S.p.A. Ownership A2A shares are divided between public and private actors: Municipality of structure Brescia 25%, Municipality of Milan 25%, Norges Bank 2.9%, A2A Spa 0.8%, other Shareholders/market 46.3% Key fnancial (EUR million) 2013 2014 2015 2016 data of the Revenues 70.1 70.6 76.5 129.8 water business EBITDA 12.4 14.4 24.2 79.9 (*consolidated Net proft 2.6 0.2 7.8 41.9 − fnancial data Net Debt* 3,874 3,363 2,897 3,136 of the Group) Investments 13.2 15.3 19.9 25.3 ROE* 2.24% 0.57% 1.75% 7.31% − − ROS n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. History of the A2A is the company resulting from the merger between former municipal com- company panies from Milan (AEM and AMSA) and Brescia (ASM) formally started out on 1 January 2008. On 1 January 2011 A2A Ciclo Idrico S.p.A was established in order to manage the integrated water services in the Province of Brescia Water business Water supply Water is abstracted from 175 wells and 188 springs Sewerage A2A Ciclo Idrico collects urban waste water through over 2,200 km of combined sewage networks, serving 69 towns Wastewater The constant operation of 91 plants allows for the purifcation of more than 46 treatment million cubic meters of wastewater every year, serving 66 towns and 549,636 inhabitants Innovation The most important program of innovation concerns the installation of smart and R&D meters in order to decrease reading activities, improve precision on water bal- ance, implement real time monitoring fows for water losses pre-location based on night fow analysis (continued) 326 Appendix: Companies’ Profles (continued) Strategy and plans Strategy and Main objectives pursued in the last years plans – Sewage monitoring campaigns in order to localize and eliminate base sanitary dilution in sewage system – Sewage network survey system – Hexavalent chromium water treatments Main plans for the future – Solving infraction proceeding 2014/2059 in order to collect and treat domestic waste water – Non revenue water management – KPI to improve environmental protection, water quality and safety—regularity ser- vice for water supply Focus on Main investments done in the last 5 years: investments – Revamping MBR technology in Verziano treatment plant – Treatment systems to remove hexavalent chromium in the city of Brescia – Upgrading Bagnolo treatment plant up to 20,000 pe capacity – New sewage pipes in Orzinuovi town to collect non-treated waste water to the treatment plant water system connecting 6 towns located in South district of Brescia Main investments foreseen for the next 5 years: – New treatment plant (capacity 36,000 PE) in Gavardo – New treatment plant (capacity 26,000 PE) in Nuvolera – New integrated water cycle system (water supply network, wells, sewage net- work, treatment plant) in the town of Calvisano – Replacement of water meters older than 10/13 years – Aqueduct pipes replacement according to real losses reduction plans Abbanoa S.p.A. General information Core business Electricity Gas plant Water Waste Other ü Water Water supply business Transmission Wastewater Water Sewerage and water Distribution treatment capture purifcation ü ü ü ü ü Technical data Distributed Water Water supply Sewerage volumes customers networks (km) (mln mc) (mln) (km) 251.3 1.6 11,500 6,300 (introduced) (continued) Appendix: Companies’ Profles 327 (continued) General information Geographical Abbanoa S.p.A. manages the integrated water services in the Region of Sardinia presence Ownership Abbanoa S.p.A. is fully owned by public entities, namely 342 Municipalities structure located in the region (30.13% of the shares) and the Regional Government of Sardinia (69.87% of the shares) Key fnancial (EUR million) 2013 2014 2015 2016 data of the Revenues 354 299 268 325 water business EBITDA 163 101 77 132 Net proft 72 12 10 9 Net Debt 88 77 37 26 Investments 41 41 36 62 ROE 46.95% 3.78% 2.88% 2.37% ROS 46.60% 7.31% 4.36% 6.03% Company Abbanoa S.p.A. is the operator of the Integrated Water Service in Sardinia. The profle entrustment of the water services to Abbanoa was given through the delibera- tion n. 25/2004 of the Assembly of the Optimal Area, currently the Assembly of the Province of Sardinia as a result of the regional reform law of the sector (Law No. 4, February 4, 2015, No. 4 et seq.). Abbanoa S.p.A., has been cre- ated on 22 December 2005 by the transformation of Sidris S.c.a.r.l. following the merger of its consortium companies; it is wholly owned by Public Bodies, including 342 Municipal Members and the Region Sardinia Partner Water business Water supply Abbanoa manages the integrated water service of the Sardinia region, oversee- ing the provision of drinking water, through collection, distribution, treatment, sewerage. The activity concerns both ground water and surface water (85%). The company manages a complex and articulated plant system; in fact, for the production and distribution of drinking water, Abbanoa uses a system of drink- ing water treatment plants distributed throughout the regional territory, which constitutes a real industrial production system. The drinking water treatment plants currently in operation are 43; a water aqueduct system is currently being used in the transport of potable water, where signifcant pumping systems are required to overcome existing differences in altitude between resource sites and distribution points Sewerage The wastewater produced by customers is collected by approximately 6,400 km of urban sewerage system that can be operated by gravity (for the most part) or, where necessary, by using sewage lifting installations (around 900 in all regional territory) managed by Abbanoa but contracted to other companies for the service of supervision and operations Wastewater Abbanoa manages 347 wastewater treatment plants, with evolving situation due treatment to the completion of some purifcation schemes, which altogether treated 150 mln mc of wastewater. Interventions, between maintenances and failure of elec- tromechanical equipment, maintenance of civil works, carried out altogether in 2016 result to be over 2,791. The recent management improvement can be seen from the total sludge production, of which over 98% has been re-used in agriculture, and from the authorization status of the company that has seen 335 discharges authorized. The electricity used for the treatment of wastewater was about 66.7 mln kWh (continued) 328 Appendix: Companies’ Profles (continued) Water business Innovation Main innovation projects: and R&D – Pilot project in collaboration with Hitachi Drives and Automation (Italy) for active water management and leakages recovery in the distribution system of the Municipality of Oliena: distrectualization of the newtork and implementa- tion of pressure management plans following the calculation of the Minimum Night Flow, which is an estimation of hydraulic dispersion of the water system, predictive localization of water leakages and priority grading for leak detection – Implementation of the Quality Management System (SGQ) in the Design and Public Works Sector and Certifcation Division according to ISO 9001: 2015 issued by Accredia Certifcation Company in April 2016 – Implementation of the Workforce Management (WFM) technology system that effectively manages all the resources involved, based on a proper schedul- ing and dispatch of workloads across resources through the use of a mobile application a portable device (Tablet). The project, launched in September 2015, has been implemented in 2016 Strategy and plans Strategy and Main objectives pursued in the last years plans Starting from the second half of 2015, the management has planned and imple- mented a system for tracking and analyzing the performance of the defned strategic objectives based on the Balanced Scorecard logic: a review of the Management System for Objectives based on the methodology of the Activity Based Management, which identifes the nuclei on which the actions of the business processes are focused to improve the effciency and effectiveness of the production and service combination Main plans for the future – Objective Industry 4.0, which indicates a business development perspective for industrial automation by integrating new technologies to improve working conditions, increase productivity and production quality of plants, and quality of service to the customer – Leak reduction strategy and hydraulic, energy and management effciency strategy, which includes the extension of the activities carried out in the municipality of Oliena to the 30 municipalities with the most critical situa- tions in order of impact of network leaks in distribution.
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