Half-yearly financial Report at June 30, 2013 - A2A

Half-yearly financial report at June 30, 2013Social responsibility and stakeholder relations236carried out with the collaboration of Coop, Simply and Auchan, who have made their salespoints in Brescia and the city’s hinterland available;• the communication and awareness activities promoted by A2A Calore & Servizi S.r.l. fordeveloping the district heating service in the areas in which it operates continues with anew subject. Following “District heating: heat is increasingly blue”, the new campaignhinges on the message “District heating: we can finally breathe” and concentratespeople’s attention on sustainability and respect for the environment;• on January 31, 2013 A2A organized the convention “The role of district heating in asustainable energy future” at the Waste to Energy Auditorium in Brescia in conjunctionwith the ASM Foundation, the Municipality of Brescia and other bodies. In the autumn of1972, the Municipal Service Company of the Municipality of Brescia, now A2A, beganproviding district heating services in Brescia Due, a newly-built quarter on the outskirts ofthe city. A methane-fired thermal plant injected super-heated water into the distributionnetwork to which the new buildings were gradually connected. Today, forty years on,district heating is extended to practically the whole of the Brescia urban area and to anumber of neighboring communities, with the peculiarity that since 1978 the heatprovided to users is produced jointly with electricity in cogeneration plants, the mostrecent of which - the waste to energy plant - has since 1998 been using the urban solidwaste which cannot be usefully recycled and biomasses as fuel;• A2A is one of the 78 companies selected to form part of the Catalogue of Good Practices inLombardy, an online communications tool promoted by Unioncamere Lombardia. Thecompany was awarded the certificate for this in January at the convention organized bythe Lombardy Chambers of Commerce held at the offices of Unioncamere Lombardia; thismention highlights the extent to which the A2A Group has developed good socialresponsibility practices, in particular for projects relating to environmental sustainability,work quality and staff relations and for initiatives in favor of the community and local area;• a teachers’ guide was published, prepared by the A2A Group in conjunction with DeAgostini. The guide includes teaching materials and details on energy, water, the wastecycle and sustainability, all richly illustrated by pictures, maps and diagrams. The guide willbe distributed free of charge to the teachers of all the classes that visit the Group’s plantsas part of the A2A Schools Project;• with the final episode of the television program “Get to know energy”, the format createdby A2A carried out with the contribution of the ASM Foundation and the patronage of theEnvironment and Ecology and Public Education Councilors of the Municipality of Bresciaand broadcast by the local television channel Teletutto came to an end on May 5. The mainaim of this quiz between the schools of Brescia was to inform young people about theenvironmental and energy problems of our planet and to make them more aware of them,and to bring them closer to topics such as energy saving, waste and district heating.