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 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.

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 - 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 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, 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, 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.

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.

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 - 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 - 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) - promoted by Fondazione Cogeme ETS and Kyoto Club - awarded to the Circular Wood project in the business world category.