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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. Energy costs per
student range from $125 to $140 on average, depending on region
and climatic conditions. 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 spend tops $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 1.9 million
and is increasing at an annual rate of 11% to 22%. Energy services
can offer correctional facilities ways to manage rising costs and
renew aging infrastructure without affecting security or inmate
treatment.
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