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Creating Customer Value
Ameresco delivers financial and operational benefits to our customers
in a flexible, collaborative relationship. Our projects and programs
have a positive impact on free cash flow while reducing the overall
cost of doing business.
The list below shows the value we can create. Use
the calculator to project your own savings. Lower cost of energy
commodities is only the "tip of the iceberg!"
Renewed facilities. Ameresco can help you use future
savings to replace aging, obsolete, inefficient equipment, components
and systems, resulting in minimal downtime, reduced maintenance,
and improved air/environmental quality. Your capital budgets can
accomplish more with less impact on balance sheets.
Energy and cost savings. Ameresco's supply and demand
management can result in lower consumption and reduced rates for
fuel and power.
Best use of fuel. We may be able to add more optionality
to your fuel use, tied to price and availability; or convert systems
or processes to more advantageous fuels.
Reduced administrative costs. Through EnfoTrak, you
can reduce expenses associated with tracking deregulated markets,
managing bill payments, and late fees.
Greater predictability. You reduce the need for large
contingency amounts in operating and capital budgets by increasing
certainty of annual expenditures.
Improved in-house labor productivity. By outsourcing
to Ameresco's energy-related expertise, you refocus resources on
core-business productivity.
Lower energy repair/capital costs. Your new, efficient
systems perform at peak efficiency. That lowers repair costs and
frees up capital funds.
Lower O&M costs. Replacement of older equipment
and systems with new state-of-the-art equipment will lower O&M
costs.
Avoided expenditure of budgeted capital. You can reduce
or eliminate capital expenditure for equipment and systems by applying
savings streams over a longer term to cover project costs.
Reduced interest expense. We provide an alternative
to traditional borrowing to finance capital projects.
Preserved debt capacity. Moving energy projects out
of revolving finance line will result in increased or preserved
borrowing capacity for other and better opportunities.
Improved productivity. Upgrades to production support
systems can eliminate potentially costly downtime associated with
failures of deteriorating infrastructure systems that provide steam,
hot water, air, chilled water, etc. to manufacturing processes.
Improved quality of product. Better process support
systems and modernization of production equipment can improve product
quality and reduce waste associated with inability to control/maintain
operating conditions as prescribed.
Reduced waste disposal costs. We can implement process
changes that reduce expense associated with required cooling systems
to cut levels of excess heat in waste streams to acceptable levels,
costs for sophisticated wastewater treatment, etc.
Heat recovery/reuse. You may be able to use recovered
heat in processes, thereby saving on fuel consumption and cost.
Waste recovery (reusable and/or resellable waste).
We can help you identify markets and uses to create value from material
presently treated as waste
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Stewardship
