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Milan, October 15 2020 - Social housing makes an important contribution to reducing emissions into the environment. This year the re-ignition of the heating systems in the public buildings of the Municipality of Milan, managed by MM, is in fact accompanied by good news: no thermal power plant will be powered by diesel anymore, the entire system will be "oil free" with methane fueled or with connection to the city district heating network.

An initiative promoted by the Municipality of Milan and MM to make heating systems more efficient by reducing costs for tenants, optimizing overall operation, making families' heat needs constant and safe and safeguarding the environment with a drastic cut in emissions fine dust and CO₂. The estimated reduction in CO emissions₂ it is in fact equal to approximately 1.750 tonnes/year.

“It is a great result that we have achieved together - comments the councilor for social and housing policies Gabriele Rabaiotti -. We managed, as promised, to free ourselves from diesel, the most polluting fuel used to heat apartments. Now all the houses in the Municipality make their contribution to improving air quality in line with the strategies of the municipal climate plan, and tenants will save on heating costs. With this step, the redevelopment activity of the city's public residential heritage continues and we now hope that private condominiums will also quickly follow our example".

“MM's continuous commitment to implementing the Municipality's strategy is confirmed - says the president of MM SpA, Simone Dragone - aimed at enhancing the ERP assets, as well as the environmental needs and those of our tenants”.

“We have completed a virtuous path - continues Stefano Cetti, general director of MM SpA - which today allows us to have the entire thermal power plant park of the Erp heritage powered with less polluting fuels, in addition to the buildings already district heated. Another important step towards the environmental transition of our city has been taken."

In the last three years, 49 thermal power plants with a total installed power of approximately 25.000 kW have been converted from diesel to methane. There were 42 building complexes involved, equal to 25% of the total assets, and 10.800 tenants, while the expected saving in heating costs is around 50%.