Opening of Proposals - WWTP Solar Guaranteed Energy Savings Contract Proj. No. 124-015 - Ameresco

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Table of Contents Our Services Our portfolio of service and product offerings aim to create value and provide energy efficient and renewable solutions to the organizations we serve in the pursuit of a sustainable future. Energy Efficiency Measures & Upgrades • Water management, efficiency and reclamation • Renewable energy, storage & microgrids • Heating, ventilation, cooling, building envelope • Smart metering and controls • Chillers and boilers Renewable Energy, Storage & Microgrids • Solar photovoltaic ("PV") • Combined heat and power ("CHP") and co -generation plants • Geothermal • Renewable natural gas ("RNG") • Wind power • Microgrid • Battery storage • EV charging infrastructure • Hydrogen Energy Infrastructure • Smart building modernization and retrofits • Design -build new construction Utilize a full range of technologies related to building systems, facility infrastructure, energy- and water -consuming systems Integrated project design and implementation Energy Analytics & Supply • Enterprise energy management services • Proprietary asset management software • Energy procurement services Operations & Maintenance ("O&M'9 • End -to -end technical guidance Skilled technicians to operate and maintain renewable energy systems Our core services are the development, design, engineering, and installation of projects designed to reduce the energy and O&M costs of our customers' facilities. These projects generally include a variety of measures that incorporate innovative technology and techniques, customized for the facility and designed to improve the efficiency of major building systems, such as heating, ventilation, cooling and lighting systems, while enhancing the comfort and usability of the buildings. We also offer the ability to incorporate analytical tools designed to provide improved building energy management capabilities and enable customers to identify opportunities for energy cost savings. We typically commit to customers that our energy efficiency projects will satisfy agreed upon performance standards upon installation or achieve specified increases in energy efficiency. Generally, the forecasted lifetime energy and operating cost savings of the energy efficiency measures we install are designed to defray all or almost all of the cost of such measures. In many cases, we assist customers in obtaining private third -party financing, grants, or rebates for the cost of constructing the facility improvements, resulting in little or no upfront capital expenditure by the customer. After a project is complete, we may operate, maintain and repair the customer's energy systems under a multi -year O&M contract, designed to provide us with recurring revenue and visibility into the customer's evolving needs. In addition, we serve certain customers by developing and building small-scale renewable energy plants located at or close to a customer's site. Depending on the customer's preference, we will either retain ownership of the completed plant or build it for the customer. Most of our small-scale renewable energy plants to date consist of solar PV installations and plants constructed adjacent to landfills, which use landfill gas ("LFG") to generate energy. We also design and build, and own, operate and maintain plants that utilize biogas from wastewater treatment processes. Our largest renewable energy project that we operate for a customer uses biomass as the primary source of energy. For information on how we finance the projects that we own and operate, please see the disclosures under Note 2, "Summary of Significant Accounting Policies", Note 9, "Debt and Financing Lease Liabilities" and Note 11, "Variable Interest Entities and Equity Method Investments" to our consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of this Report. Our Lines of Business Smart Energy Solutions Projects Our Smart Energy Solutions Projects are primarily energy efficiency projects, which entail the design, engineering, and installation of an ever-increasing array of innovative technologies and techniques designed to improve the energy efficiency and control the operation, of a building's energy- and water -consuming systems. In certain projects, we design and construct a central plant or cogeneration system providing power, heat and/or cooling to a building, or a small-scale plant that produces electricity, gas, heat or cooling from renewable sources of energy for a customer, as well as battery energy storage. Our projects generally range in size and scope from a one -month project to design and retrofit a lighting system to a more complex 36-month project to design and install a central plant or cogeneration system or other small-scale plant. Projects we have constructed or are currently working on include designing, engineering and installing energy conservation and resiliency measures across school buildings,