(Adnkronos) - Esaminato e approvato, da parte del Consiglio di Amministrazione di A2A S.p.A., presieduto da Roberto Tasca, l’Aggiornamento del Piano Strategico 2024-2035 che mantiene saldi gli obiettivi di crescita industriale del Gruppo definiti nel Piano di marzo 2024. Con una sinergia saldamente incentrata sui due pilastri della Transizione energetica e dell’Economia circolare e che coniuga decarbonizzazione e competitività, il Piano conferma investimenti per 22 miliardi di euro.
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00:00Combining decarbonization and competitiveness while maintaining the centrality on the two pillars of the energy transition and the circular economy.
00:13It is the synthesis of the strategy on which the update of the A2A strategic plan 2024-2035 is based, presented in Milan,
00:21which maintains the industrial growth goals of the Group, defined in the plan for March 2024.
00:27The strongly positive performance of the Group in the first four years of the industrial plan launched in 2021,
00:34during which 8 billion investments were seen, led to a closure of 2024 with over 800 million euros of net use and 2.3 billion of EBITDA.
00:45This gives us the economic and technical energy to be able to move forward in the plan, which has 2,035 and 22 billion investments,
00:54divided into the usual two pillars of the energy transition and the circular economy,
00:58which are also discussed with Draghi's report, which says that in order to increase the competitiveness of Europe,
01:04we need to invest to solve two major weaknesses.
01:09One is that of energy autonomy, precisely because our own sources are water, wind, sun and waste,
01:16so we have to use them as best we can.
01:18In Italy, we have estimated that we can increase from 22-23% of energy autonomy to 58-59% using renewables.
01:28On the other hand, the issue of raw materials.
01:30Just think about the issue of batteries, which evidently we do not have raw materials in Europe to build them.
01:36But Europe has been able, for example with steel and paper, to become a great producer with recycling,
01:42without having raw materials in the subsurface, but recycling them.
01:46In the same way, we can do it with batteries, where the European community expects that by 2050,
01:53more than 80% of the raw materials for new batteries will have to come from recycling,
01:57so paloenickel, cobalt, lithium.
01:59Therefore, the group continues to be a leader in the circular economy
02:03and we have a whole series of projects to increase the treatment of waste in these sectors
02:09and also strongly in the sector of land and waste, which is what gives us directly second-rate raw materials to be able to work.
02:19At the next meeting of shareholders, a plan of shareholding will be proposed by A2A
02:25in favor of more than 13,000 employees of the group.
02:28How is this operation done?
02:30It is done with the company that buys its own shares and then provides these shares to the employees for free,
02:35so that everyone becomes a shareholder.
02:38Then the shareholders, the employees, will be able to invest their resources in shares that will have rewards,
02:48among other things, rewards inversely proportional to the corporate role.
02:53So the more important the corporate role is, the smaller the reward.
02:57And this is very important because, on the one hand, we certainly get a greater sense of belonging of our employees
03:06and, on the other hand, there is a financial education issue.
03:10In Italy, as you know, private savings continue to be important, but we are not used to investing money.
03:17So it is an operation that can certainly bring our colleagues, our employees, closer to a greater investment capacity of their private resources.