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.
