Italy’s Gruppo CAP becomes latest member of pioneering global Net Zero Partnership
Italian green utilities group, Gruppo CAP has become the fourth organisation to join the groundbreaking international Net Zero Partnership.
The Net Zero Partnership was formed in 2022 by the UK’s Severn Trent, Australia’s Melbourne Water and Denmark’s Aarhus Vand.
Already recognised as leaders in environmental sustainability and renewable resources, the three founding members formed the Partnership to co-create the development of technologies and innovations to make wastewater treatment greener and reduce carbon emissions and greenhouse gasses from the process.
Gruppo CAP is the public company that manages the Integrated Water Service of the Metropolitan City of Milan and is a key player in the development and innovation of Lombardy's water infrastructures. A true green utility, which grows through markets that are complementary to the water sector and fundamental to the sustainable development of the planet, helping them to embark on the path towards sustainability and the circular economy.
We are genuinely thrilled to be the first Italian company to join this groundbreaking Net Zero Partnership. The objectives of the Partnership align perfectly with our own aspirations to drive ecological transition and reaching the decarbonisation targets.
He continues: As an evolved green utility, the Group is looking forward to bringing its expertise across renewable energy, resource recovery and the circular economy to the Partnership.
Gruppo CAP is dedicated to green energy and recycling
Gruppo CAP today can rely on a modular industrial ecosystem, consisting of CAP Evolution, the company operating in the areas of waste, wastewater and green energy, Neutalia, which manages the waste-to-energy plant in Busto Arsizio, and ZeroC, the BioPlatform that will transform the existing facilities consisting of waste-to-energy plant and water treatment.
I am very pleased that we are expanding NetZero with Gruppo CAP. Their goal of CO2 neutrality aligns with our ambitions. I feel their commitment also to recycling, including phosphorus, which is also an important agenda. Furthermore, I see Milan as a place where different industries can be integrated into an innovation agenda. Altogether, I am really excited about this new collaboration.
Cooperation involves testing of technologies reducing CO2
Partner members collaborate on the development of technologies to meet their net zero objectives, with Severn Trent’s Strongford wastewater treatment works in Staffordshire, England, retrofit to become the home of the world’s first dedicated Net Zero Hub.
The Net Zero Hub allows for the testing of innovations at industrial scale, with a target that the site will eradicate 34,000 tonnes of carbon per year – the same as a person flying return from London to New York 34,500 times.
Gruppo CAP brings a wealth of invaluable experience and expertise and we are genuinely excited at the insight and knowledge that they will bring to the Partnership. We are driven by our commitment to support ways of creating net zero wastewater treatment, eliminating greenhouse gas emissions. These are universal issues faced by every wastewater company on the planet, so the work that we’re doing will have global implications.
Tackling emissions demands bold innovation and global collaboration. We’re thrilled to welcome Gruppo CAP to the International Net Zero Partnership. Through knowledge sharing, we can better understand our emissions, implement new technologies and meet our challenges to reduce our collective emissions. The actions we take today will help shape a more sustainable water future for generations to come.