Annual Report 2010 - AdP

the sector regulator and the Ministry of Finance, the company
name of Reciclamas - Multigestão Ambiental, S.A. was altered
to AdP Energias - Energias Renováveis e Serviços Ambientais,
S.A. (AdP Energias), and with the consequent alteration in the
company’s defining objective and now specifically
incorporating the production, capture and delivery to
external consumers of diverse forms of renewable energies.
• The EGF stake in the MIESE group, responsible for running
the biomass plants, was sold onto AdP Energias.
• In the energy sector, the year closed with a total of 208
micro-photovoltaic installations operational.
• Feasibility studies also looked at the implementation of minigeneration
plants at the AdP Group multi-municipal systems
with the launch of a tender for the construction of around
ten installations with a total capacity of 1 MW due in 2011.
• The consortium of which AdP Energias is a member was
awarded the international public tender for the construction
of five photovoltaic solar concentration demonstration units.
• The public international tender was launched for the
construction of the first two demonstration units for low
temperature heat recovery with unit potential of 150 kW.
• Preparatory work moved ahead towards the construction of
small hydraulic plants in partnership with Águas do Algarve,
in Alcantarilha; Águas de Santo André, in Montes Chãos; and
Águas do Noroeste, in Beiriz.
• Work also continued leading up to the installation of the
group’s first solar sludge drying unit, to be located in the
Algarve.
• Studies were also held on the construction of waste to energy
plants, contributing towards resolving the wastewater
treatment plant sludge problem and capitalising on refusederived
fuels deriving from mechanical and biological recovery.
• Water Security Plans were approved at EPAL: an important
tool for an integrated and systemic vision of risks to the
quality and quantity of water available for supply.
• EPAL undertook asset management projects designed within
the framework of the integration of systems and surveying
and establishing of inventories of assets, which can then be
generally and technically characterised.
• EPAL participated in the PREPARED Project, co-financed by
the 7th European Union Framework Programme, with the
core objective of establishing a common European platform
for solutions for adapting to climate change for water supply
and sanitation sector entities. The company launched its
pluri-annual research project on adapting the urban water
cycle within the framework of climate change in conjunction
with the Research Group into Climate Change at the Faculty
of Sciences, University of Lisbon.
• Portugal was present at the International Water Association
(IWA) World Congress themed on “Water - the lifeblood of
the world - 2010”, in its capacity as the host country of the
2014 World Congress, with a pavilion designed and
organised by EPAL.
• In the international arena, AdP, SGPS disposed of its entire
stake in the capital of Águas de Moçambique, S.A.R.L. to FIPAG
- Fundo de Investimento e Património do Abastecimento de
Água in December of this year.
• The contract for the collection of municipal solid waste in
the municipality of Maputo was maintained through the
consortium EGF/Neoquímica.
• A branch of AdP Internacional was opened in Angola, with
the objective of proceeding with specific projects in terms of
the provision of services to local sanitation companies,
especially across the commercial, production and IT fields.
• In partnership with the company Ogimatech Portugal and
the NGO for development TESE, AdP, SGPS was adjudicated
a technical assistance contract by the Angolan National
Directorate for Water and Sanitation, with a value in the
region of € 5 million. The contract forms part of a support
programme for the institutional development of the sector in
this country and is financed by the European Development
Fund under the auspices of the European Union/Republic of
Angola development agreement.
• The National Policy for Environmental Sanitation was drafted
for the Ministry of Environment of Angola in conjunction with
the Directive Plan for the Water Supply to the municipality of
Kilamba Kiaxi - Angola - for the Provincial Directorate.
• In the shared services sector, a new relational model
between AdP Serviços and AdP Group companies was put
into practice. Work also advanced leading up to the launch,
in 2011, of a consultation period on the centralised
acquisition of energy for the group.
• The group furthermore signed up to Global Compact, a
United Nations initiative seeking to align business and civil
society strategies and policies with ten universal principles
covering human and labour rights, protection of the
environment and an anti-corruption mechanism, which
today has a membership of over eight thousand
organisations from around 135 countries.