Cost Savings
November 14, 2025
Ameresco and City of Chandler Launch Energy Initiative to Cut Municipal Utility Costs by Over $1 Million Annually
Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC) is a leading energy infrastructure solutions provider dedicated to helping customers reduce costs, enhance resilience, and decarbonize to net zero in the global energy transition. Our comprehensive portfolio includes implementing smart energy efficiency solutions, upgrading aging infrastructure, and developing, constructing, and operating distributed energy resources.
Our solutions range from upgrades to facility’s energy infrastructure to the development, construction and operation of renewable energy plants combined with tailored financial solutions. We work with customers on both sides of the meter to reduce operating expenses, upgrade and maintain facilities, stabilize energy costs, improve occupancy comfort levels, increase energy reliability and enhance the environment.
Leveraging budget neutral solutions — including energy savings performance contracts (ESPCs), power purchase agreements (PPAs) and off-balance sheet energy as a service (EaaS) contracts — we eliminate the financial barriers that traditionally hamper energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. As a trusted full-service partner, Ameresco shows the way by reducing energy use and delivering energy infrastructure solutions to Federal, state and local governments, utilities, data centers, educational and healthcare institutions, housing authorities, and commercial and industrial customers.
The company was founded in 2000 by George Sakellaris, a pioneer in the energy service business. To best serve our wide-ranging customer base, Ameresco has over 50 regional offices located throughout North America and Europe. Our deep bench of energy and business professionals have years of experience and the resources needed to successfully plan, execute and finance projects that will create sustained economic and operating benefits to fulfill each customer’s unique requirements.
Ameresco’s mission is to be a trusted full-service energy partner delivering resilient, responsible, innovate solutions – grounded in our relentless focus on customer satisfaction. We are driven by our vision to energize a sustainable world.
Vision, Mission & Values
Ameresco’s vision, mission, and C.A.R.I.N.G. values shape our culture and inform our business practices. We have become a leading energy solutions provider by approaching our business with a specific set of values and goals. Our values are demonstrated in the way we work to meet the energy, resiliency, and sustainability goals of our customers and stakeholders.
Our Vision
Energizing a sustainable world.
Our Mission
To be a trusted full-service energy partner delivering resilient, responsible, innovative solutions – grounded in our relentless focus on customer satisfaction and our commitment to creating value.
Our C.A.R.I.N.G. Values
Ameresco’s C.A.R.I.N.G. values shape our culture and inform our business practices. These principles guide our interactions with stakeholders and are fundamental to our people and our professional conduct.
- Committed: We are committed to being dedicated, engaged, and accountable to ourselves, to our stakeholders, and towards our shared goals.
- Attitude: Our can-do attitude means approaching scenarios as a team with a solution-oriented, positive, and proactive mindset.
- Resourceful: We are resourceful in solving challenges, doing more with less, and adapting creatively to changing circumstances.
- Integrity: Our integrity ensures we do the right thing together with consistent and high ethical standards grounded in honesty, safety, and respect.
- Nimble: We stay nimble and embrace flexibility while navigating change with an entrepreneurial spirit, passion, and innovation.
- Greatness: We lead the industry with greatness as One Ameresco – embracing excellence, skilled execution and lasting impact to unlock the possibilities of today and tomorrow.
Ameresco’s Environmental Impact
We have a goal to reduce our customers’ carbon footprints by a cumulative 500 million metric tons by 2050. In 2024, our renewable energy assets and customer projects delivered an emissions reduction of approximately 17 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, and over 125 million cumulative metric tons since going public in 2010. This carbon offset is approximately equal to one of the following:
~44,000,000,000
miles driven by an average passenger vehicle (GhG emission equivalency)
~2,000,000
homes’ energy use for one year
(carbon dioxide emission equivalency)
~17,000,000
acres of U.S. forests in one year
(carbon sequestration equivalency)
Careers & Impact
Join Us in the Global Energy Transformation
Ameresco is powered by our team of purpose-driven people. Ever since our early days, we’ve put our people first when solving our customers’ greatest energy, resiliency, and decarbonization challenges.
