Connect to Smarter Energy Solutions
If you want to. . .
- Reduce Costs
- Manage or Reduce Risk
- Renew Facilities
- Improve Reliability
- Increase EPS
- Grow
- Enhance Environmental Stewardship
Ameresco can help you achieve critical objectives faster, more smoothly, and with greater value delivered for the money you invest.
Reduce Costs
Public or private, business or institution, the need to lower operating costs is universal.
Companies face tremendous earnings growth pressure from both Wall Street and investors. Cost savings initiatives that reduce the total energy cost for our customers are viewed by analysts and Wall Street as a method to generate year-to-year profitability moving forward.
Institutions look for ways to continue to provide vitally needed services in a time of budget cuts and rising costs for labor and materials. Energy cost savings can be used to renew and improve buildings and address deferred maintenance without placing any burden on capital budgets.
Ameresco takes a comprehensive look at the costs incurred in the "energy value chain," which begins with how your company purchases energy and traces all the use of energy in daily operations. We identify and implement cost reduction opportunities all along the value chain. Most operations typically have the potential for up to 40% or greater reduction in utility costs.
Manage or Reduce Risk
In the ever-changing landscape of energy deregulation, companies now face an increasingly volatile energy market accompany by many new risks. Deregulation has had the effect of transferring risks (such as market price spikes and valleys) previously owned by the utilities to end-users. On the other hand, for Ameresco and our clients, volatility in the energy markets also represents opportunity.
At Ameresco we can manage or eliminate your company's supply-side, demand-side, environmental, and other risks - allowing you to focus your attention and resources on your core business or mission.
Renew Facilities
Internal competition for capital funding leads many companies and organizations to choose investment in the core business over infrastructure improvements. The decision may be purely financial, because infrastructure improvements may not meet the required internal hurdle rate. Whatever the reason, priority is given to "mission critical investments." Industrials prefer to fund product or marketing initiatives, schools target curriculum or staffing needs, hospitals acquire state-of-the art equipment.
At Ameresco, we can identify, development, implement and finance energy projects that otherwise go unfunded. Energy assets and energy management are our core business, our only business. If desired, our customers can also go a step further and transfer project ownership, operations and maintenance risks to Ameresco.
Improve Reliability
For most enterprises, reliability of energy consumption is not a focus until operations or core functions are affected. At that point, unfortunately, the costs associated with correcting the problem are usually far greater than the costs of a proactive solution.
System redundancy, while providing 100% up-time, is usually prohibitively costly. Ameresco can develop a cost-effective strategy that will ensure that facilities can operate during periods of extended normal power interruption.
Even when reliability is not the primary concern, improvements can be made that lead to more efficient and productive operations. Ameresco works with clients to identify and develop the necessary strategies for addressing reliability needs.
Increase EPS
A strategic energy management program can make a significant impact on your Earnings Per Share (EPS) and increase your shareholder value. How much? Check our quick calculator.
Grow
A strategic energy relationship leverages the strengths of both parties. At Ameresco, we focus on your energy and related operations - leaving your resources free to work on revenue-enhancing tasks.
If acquisitions are a growth strategy for you, Ameresco can help in many ways, such as integrating and standardizing key functions such as building controls or utility invoice management systems. We can help you develop corporate energy procurement or price risk management programs.
You can even use this relationship to manage your M&A strategy, thereby reducing the ultimate risk and price of these activities. Ameresco can perform due diligence on acquisition targets - looking at a target's energy position and needs, and providing you with a clearer picture of what the target is worth.
In addition, we partner with companies to acquire the energy-related components of an acquisition target in order to free up capital that can be used for integration after the acquisition.
Enhance Environmental Stewardship
Like all companies and organizations, yours probably faces tremendous pressure to ensure that operations are conducted in an environmentally friendly manner. We understand and have the expertise to help.
At Ameresco, we work with customers to reduce the environmental impact of their operations by improving efficiencies, implementing cost effective recycling and elimination strategies that reduce both raw material input used and the waste output created. Ameresco is also taking the lead on holistic, proactive environmental solutions such as biomass-to-energy.
