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In terms of installed generation capacity and energy efficiency, hydropower is the most exploited renewable energy source in the world.
This is also the case of Italy, thanks to a suitable land’s nature and water availability.
The operating principle of a hydropower plant is very simple: mechanical energy turns into electricity.
The potential energy of the water coming from high altitudes, moving downstream through small rivers, canals and waterways, is converted into electrical energy through special turbines. The primary source is rainwater.
A hydroelectric power plant consists of:
Hydropower plants fall into 3 basic groups:
Italgen’s hydropower production dates back to the early 1900s.
Our Company’s portfolio currently includes 15 hydropower plants located in northern Italy (Lombardy, Veneto and Piedmont), divided into two main types:
They represent a key asset either from the production or from an artistic point of view (some facilities were built in Art Nouveau style).
Hydropower contributes to the Sustainable Energy Development, meaningful to stress our long lasting commitment towards the Environment.
NOTICE RELATING TO THE PROCESSING OF USERS’ PERSONAL DATA PURSUANT EU REGULATION 2016/679 (“GDPR”)
Data Controller: Italgen S.p.A, a Company with a sole shareholder subject to the direction and coordination of “Italmobiliare S.p.A.”
Registered office: Via San Bernardino, 149/A – 24126 Bergamo, Italy
Telephone: +39 035 421 6211
Email: gdpr@italgen.it
Personal data collection
Italgen S.p.A. collects and processes the personal data provided by the concerned parties, such as, for instance, identification and personal details (name, surname, address, email).
Purpose of processing
Italgen S.p.A. processes data of the concerned party using electronic and/or paper-based systems to reply to the requests of information concerning Group Company or Companies, to send e-mails containing information on Company’s or Group’s activities, to announce Company’s events or manage job applications.
Italgen S.p.A. does not use any automated decision-making process.
Legal basis for processing
The consent (either optional or revocable at any time) given by the concerned party is the legal basis for personal data processing for the purposes stated above.
Retention period
For any requested information about the Company or the Group, the data provided by the concerned parties will be retained by the Company for the time needed to reply to such requests.
For job applications management (CVs), personal data will be retained for 12 months.
In the cases stated above, the aforesaid data will be kept till consent is revoked by the concerned party.
Once the aforesaid terms expire, data will be destroyed or made anonymous to the extent allowed by technical procedures for deletion and back-up.
Data recipients
Data may be disclosed to parties operating as Data Controllers (such as, for example, Supervisory and Control Authorities and any public entity entitled to request them), or processed on behalf of the Company by designated people as Managers, to whom operating instructions are given (such as, for example, control and supervisory bodies and/or companies managing/maintaining Company's website and/or providing other I.T. services).
Transfer outside EU
Italgen S.p.A. does not transfer personal data to countries outside EU.
People entitled to process data
Personal data will be processed by employees (such as, for example, employees of company departments assigned to pursue the above purposes), specifically designated by the Owner, as Managers and People in charge of the aforesaid processing, after receiving suitable operating instructions and in compliance with the law.
Rights of the concerned party – complaint to the Supervisory Authority
Contacting the Company by email at the following address gdpr@italgen.it, the concerned parties may ask Data Controller to have access to data concerning themselves, delete them, correct inaccurate data, complete incomplete data, restrict processing in cases provided for under article 18 GDPR, as well as object processing in cases of legitimate interest on the Holder’s side.
Furthermore, if data processing is based on consent or on a contract and is carried out with automated tools, the concerned parties are entitled to receive them in a structured, commonly used and automatically readable format, as well as to transmit them to another holder without hindrances, if technically feasible.
The concerned parties have the right to complain with the competent Supervisory Authority in the Member State where they are normally based or work or in the State where the alleged violation has occurred.
The concerned party has the right to disaffirm the consent given at any time for marketing purposes and to object that data are processed for the same purposes. The above is without prejudice to any concerned parties preferring to be contacted for the aforementioned purpose just by traditional methods to express their objection to receive communications by automated methods.