Ameresco Quantum Expands Partnership with Battle Ground School District to Reduce Energy Costs and Support Efficiency Goals
Ameresco,
Inc., (NYSE:AMRC), a leading energy efficiency and renewable energy
company, announced today that Ameresco
Quantum, Inc. has begun work on a $3.9 million Energy
Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) for the Battle Ground School
District in Clark County, Washington. The cost to the District of the
project will be reduced by a $1 million Energy Savings Grant from the
Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and an estimated
$322,000 in rebates from the Clark County Public Utility District. This
group of energy efficiency infrastructure upgrades follows two energy
conservation projects completed by Ameresco Quantum for the District in
2010 and 2011 that focused on major plumbing and lighting upgrades.
Battle Ground schools that will receive upgrades through the new project
include Battle Ground High School, Prairie High School, Amboy Middle
School, Maple Grove Primary and Middle School, Captain Strong Elementary
School, Yacolt Primary School, and the Center for Agriculture, Science,
and Environmental Education Building Complex.
“This grant will result in dramatic savings in our utility bills, guard
against system failures and enable us to address long-standing issues of
failed and aging equipment,” said Mary Beth Lynn, Assistant
Superintendent for Finance and School Operations of Battle Ground School
District.
“The state energy efficiency grants and the guaranteed savings provided
by our energy performance contracting model has allowed many school
districts, as well as municipalities and colleges across the state, to
dramatically reduce operational costs and achieve long desired energy
efficiency goals,” said Mike O’Connor, Vice President, Northwest Region
for Ameresco. “This project at the Battle Ground School District is a
perfect example of how energy infrastructure improvements can yield
positive financial impacts even in the current fiscal environment, while
at the same time contributing to more sustainable communities.”
Over the course of the contract, Ameresco Quantum will manage the design
and installation of new mechanical systems, as well as upgrades and
replacements to the District’s energy management systems and other
equipment. In addition to reducing utility costs, these improvements
will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by decreasing carbon emissions by
nearly 2 million pounds per year.
The $1 million state energy efficiency grant that Ameresco Quantum
helped secure for this project is one of more than 78 such grants valued
at nearly $35 million that the State has awarded to projects developed
by Ameresco Quantum since 2009.
As one of the largest providers of energy services in the Pacific
Northwest, Ameresco Quantum has implemented energy savings performance
contracts for colleges, school districts, municipalities and state
agencies. Ameresco pioneered the ESPC financing model, making the
budget-neutral solution an increasingly popular option when modernizing
a single facility or providing a comprehensive campus-wide energy
management system.
About the Battle Ground School District
The Battle Ground School District in northeast Clark County, Washington,
has 19 schools spread over 273 square miles. It stretches from the
lowlands of suburban Vancouver on the west, near the confluence of
Interstate 5 and Interstate 205, to the Cascade Mountains at the
Clark-Skamania county line on the east. Volcanic Mount St. Helens, which
erupted with a vengeance in 1980 and looms above the Southwest
Washington landscape, is just 10 miles outside of the district’s
northeast boundary.
The district celebrated its Centennial in 2009-2010. A hundred years
earlier, during the presidency of William Howard Taft, two one-school
districts – Maple Grove and Dublin – merged and consolidated into what
is today the Battle Ground district. During the first six and a half
decades, 54 small, rural districts were folded into it, the last one –
Yacolt – in 1975. Today, Battle Ground Public Schools serve
approximately 13,000 students.
About Ameresco, Inc.
Founded in 2000, Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC) is a leading independent
provider of comprehensive services, energy efficiency, infrastructure
upgrades, asset sustainability and renewable energy solutions for
facilities throughout North America. Ameresco’s services include
upgrades to a facility’s energy infrastructure and the development,
construction and operation of renewable energy plants. Ameresco has
successfully completed energy saving, environmentally responsible
projects with federal, state and local governments, healthcare and
educational institutions, housing authorities, and commercial and
industrial customers. With its corporate headquarters in Framingham, MA,
Ameresco provides local expertise through its 63 offices in 34 states
and five Canadian provinces. Ameresco has more than 900 employees. For
more information, visit www.ameresco.com.
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