TERNA DONATES COMPUTER ASSETS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

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With the "Terna-Reuse: Community Circular Computers" the first 630 PCs and more than 60 monitors have been given to Reware to be reconditioned and donated to schools and organisations

An example of the circular economy that reinforces Terna's commitment to sustainability

and environmental protection

Rome, 24 November 2021 - National transmission electricity grid manager Terna makes a donation of 630 personal computers and over 60 monitors to launch the project "Terna- Reuse: Community Circular Computers", in collaboration with Reware, a cooperative and social enterprise dedicated to extending the life cycle of computers and electronic equipment.

The company led by Stefano Donnarumma has gifted Reware with some of its prime assets, in the form of discarded computer equipment. It will thus go some way to fulfilling its social responsibility projects, aimed particularly at sustainability and environmental impact, by allowing PCs and monitors to be reconditioned and reused. A virtuous example of circular economy that aims to limit the production of computer waste.

Terna's planned three-year collaboration with Reware was inspired by the social enterprise's work with Legambiente under the ECCO project - Community Circular Economies of Legambiente Onlus. The group is committed to sustainable development issues on a nationwide basis and, in this case, to recovering discarded technology, furniture and equipment for reuse. The specific goal is to increase computerisation in Italian public schools.

At least 20% of the electronic equipment handed over to Reware during the three-year period will, when reconditioned, be donated in Terna's name to organisations in need of it, to be selected both at regional and national level. The project means less electronic equipment taken to landfill prematurely, and therefore less environmental impact; the other major benefit is support for computerisation in schools. This in itself represents an element of environmental education, allowing students to discover how virtuous practices involving reuse can prevent waste production.

Terna has already delivered the first 77 computers to four comprehensive schools in Rome, and during the European Week for Waste Reduction "SERR 2021", taking place this year from November 20 to 28, it will deliver further assets to other comprehensive schools. Their needs have been identified through collaboration with local non-profit organisations, thus contributing to the Community circular economy.

Part of the computer equipment gifted by Terna to Reware will also go to non-profit organisations to support their activities, which are now performed also through remote working. Ten pieces of equipment have already been donated to AISM, the Italian Multiple Sclerosis Association.

Sustainability is a strategic driver for Terna and one of the pillars of the Group's activities. The centrality of sustainability in business is evidenced in the 2021-2025 "Driving Energy" Industrial Plan, which identifies specific targets for the creation of value in the medium-long term. The targets are arranged in four groups - Human Resources; Stakeholders and Territory; Integrity, Responsibility and Transparency; Environment - and broken down into 14 objectives, achievable through more than 120 activities distributed over the entire time frame of the Plan.

The collaboration with Reware reinforces Terna's concrete commitment to a sustainable and inclusive future and gives value to all company communication recipients. This commitment is confirmed by its presence in most major international sustainability indices: the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, Bloomberg Gender Equality Index, ECPI, Euronext Vigeo Eiris FTSE4Good, MIB 40 ESG, MSCI, Stoxx Global ESG Leaders and the GLIO/GRESB ESG Index.

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