Ameresco - Green. Clean. Sustainable.

Ameresco can help you achieve these key goals:

Improve or renew aging facilities
Improve operations
Reduce costs
Take advantage of opportunities created by deregulation
Mitigate energy-related risks and costs
Outsource responsibility for energy assets

One problem facing most institutions is the huge revenue gap created by shrinking budgets, declining tax bases, aging facilities, and rising energy costs.

Public and private schools grapple with aging buildings, education and facility standards, curriculum challenges, growing student populations and competition for students. Approximately a third of existing schools are in serious need of repair or replacement and most benefit from new, upgraded equipment. Average costs per student on a national basis is $181 as of 2008. Ameresco can help reduce energy costs by as much as 40%, and significantly contribute toward the renewal of building infrastructure.

Colleges and universities must compete more and more for student enrollment, while facing rising costs and the recent decline in the value of their endowment. Ameresco can help provide new sources of investment capital for improving dormitories, facilities and providing more services to their student population. Colleges and universities can thereby attract more students, without impacting capital funds.

Hospitals and healthcare facilities typically use more than twice as much energy per square foot as office buildings. (In the U.S. the annual healthcare energy expenditures top $5 billion). With third-party providers setting reimbursement rates, hospitals can't pass along these costs. Ameresco can help improve energy efficiency by an average of 30%, thus creating a new source of capital to invest in facilities, state-of-the-art equipment, staff salaries, or other critical needs.

Correctional institutions today are a mix of both publicly and privately owned correction centers, detention centers, prisons and juvenile facilities. These institutions must ensure public safety while providing appropriate, efficient, safe and humane services and programs. The prison population is over 2.3 million and is increasing at an annual rate of 1.8% (as of mid-year 2007). Energy services can offer correctional facilities ways to manage rising costs and renew aging infrastructure without affecting security or inmate treatment.