Building the future

We invest in sustainable growth aware that we generate direct and indirect impacts on people’s lives and the development of territories.

We shape our tomorrow, every day. For Iren, this means creating value over time through a sustainable development model – consistent with
its mission, its vision and its values – that can guide the Group’s strategy, policies and investments.

The multi-business nature of the Iren Group integrates different business areas that share the value of responsible resource use on a daily basis, looking to the future with a very broad view of their surroundings. People and territories are at the centre, the environment drives actions, and every resource is treated in a sustainable way aiming at the best, pursuing innovation. Iren faces tomorrow with the ambition of someone who wants to be a leader in ecological transition and circular economy to allow communities and territories to transform energy into value, without waste, together building a future that is a place where we can live well.

Our integrated strategy

Sustainability is the compass that guides the management of activities and the key lever for the creation of value over time and the development of the Strategic Plan, which aims to respond to major global challenges: from decarbonisation to the development of renewable energy, from circular economy and energy efficiency, moving on to the safeguarding of natural resources, to valuing people.

For this reason, Iren Group’s strategy is based on the analysis of the macroeconomic, financial, energy and climate context and scenarios in the short, medium and long term to identify the factors that may be important for its business from a competitive, sustainable, regulatory and normative point of view and that may affect the pursuit of its growth targets. In the Business Plan, 8.2 billion Euro in investments are planned until 2030 of which 85% for sustainability and quality service.

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Sustainability governance

Iren Group’s governance is based on shared rules that inspire and direct strategies and activities. The instruments adopted guarantee respect for ethical values, principles and behaviours within an industrial model that plans for sustainable growth.

In order to ensure consistency between behaviours and strategies, the Group has adopted a corporate governance model based on the division of responsibilities and on a balanced relationship between management and control, which guarantees that risks and opportunities are duly taken into account in the decision-making processes and contributes to spreading the corporate culture at all levels and enhancing skills.

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Stakeholder engagement

Iren Group is committed to managing its activities considering the interests of its stakeholders, with the understanding that shared goals are essential to creating mutual value.

Dialogue and discussion with stakeholders are key to addressing and outlining growth strategies that produce increasingly sustainable impacts for the local area and the country as a whole, gathering the present and future needs of stakeholders.

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Integrated Annual Report

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The latest Report

Discover Iren's Integrated Annual Report 2024: a single document that transparently recounts the Group's economic performance and ESG impacts. A timely analysis that reflects the company's industrial strategy, financial strength and sustainable evolution, according to the new ESRS standards. A reference for stakeholders and investors to fully understand the value generated in the territories and the Group's future vision.

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Top Utility Assoluto 2024

Top Utility Assoluto 2024, an award that evaluates the performance of Italy’s top 100 energy, environment and water companies. The jury chose Iren Group as the best Italian utility for the excellent economic and operational performance recorded, for the attention devoted to transparency and dialogue with customers and the local communities, and for the ability to implement innovative projects and investments related to the circular economy and in particular to strategic materials.

Best in Media Communication

Best in Media Communication certification (for the fourth year in a row): recognition for the work done to measure the impact of corporate communication, taking into account the positioning in the media and the quality of the relationships established with journalists.

Smau Innovation Award 2024

The Smau Innovation Award 2024 for having adopted and supported the development of the innovative technology of Finapp, a start-up that in 2021 became part of Iren UP, the Corporate Venture programme of Iren Group, in which the Tech4Planet Fund has invested and in which Iren is an investor. Finapp has developed an innovative probe that allows, among other use cases, the detection of leaks in aqueduct networks by analysing the refraction of cosmic rays to measure the amount of water present in a soil and quickly identify the area of a leak.

CEOforLIFE Awards 2024

CEOforLIFE Awards 2024 - Social Impact category, prize awarded to the D&Iren project “listen so as to include”, launched in collaboration with Wise Growth to explore the theme of disability in the Company, starting from an active listening to people in order to identify their needs and transform them into concrete actions to support those resources that find themselves in situations of hardship.

ARERA award

ARERA award to Ireti Gas (grant of 1.9 million Euro) for the development of innovative projects in gas network management: a reverse-flow plant – compression of biomethane not consumed in the distribution network to inject it into the network at a higher pressure – and for an experimental in-grHYd project for the decarbonization of gas distribution networks.

Seal Italy’s Customer Service 2024/2025

Seal Italy’s Customer Service 2024/2025, third place for water customer service in the certification that rewards the best customer service and ranks the best companies according to the efficiency of their customer service. The survey conducted by L’Economia of Corriere della Sera and Statista assessed the opinions of over 15,000 people on the basis of six criteria: willingness to recommend the service, availability of the service, customer orientation, professional competence, quality of communication and variety of solutions offered.

Intranet Italia Day 2024

Intranet Italia Day 2024, an event that aims to reward the companies that have created the best digital workplaces and intranets by 2023, awards the NoiIren Group’s intranet for the “Design and Interactions” category.

PIMBY Green 2024 and Utility Award Best ESG & Sustainability Project and Italian Architecture Award 2024 logos

PIMBY Green 2024 award

The Heat Garden - a vertical forest integrated into a heat storage system serving Turin’s district heating network - received several awards: the PIMBY Green 2024 award, instituted by Assoambiente with the patronage of ANCI for the category “design and construction of strategic infrastructures for local areas and technologically advanced industrial plants”; the Utility Award Best ESG & Sustainability Project and the Italian Architecture Award 2024 promoted by MAXXI in Rome and Triennale Milano.

International Loyalty Awards

The Dubai International Loyalty Awards gave the Iren Luce Gas and Services “Be Iren” loyalty programme two awards in the categories of Best Global Program 2024 Western Europe, as best European project of the year, and Best CSR Initiative linked to Loyalty, for having returned value to the area and the community through an educational path based on gamification and content strategy, involving customers registered in the loyalty programme in exclusive participation in cultural and sports events in the cities of reference, urban regeneration initiatives and donations to the Energy Bank.

Comuni Ricicloni

Comuni Ricicloni - Legambiente’s dossier that highlights and commits Italian municipalities to sorted waste collection for the proper recycling of the materials collected - rewards, on the occasion of the Eco forum 2024, Amiat and the Municipality of Turin for the project of widespread collection of vegetable oils of domestic origin.

Mission Fleet Awards

Mission Fleet Awards - an Italian award for the car fleet sector - recognised the IrenGO e-Mobility App as the best mobile app for managing electric recharging.

National Excellence Award “Towards a Circular Economy” (7th year)

National Excellence Award “Towards a Circular Economy” (7th year) - promoted by Fondazione Cogeme ETS and Kyoto Club - awarded to the Circular Wood project in the business world category.