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Ameresco, Inc. (AMRC) Business

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Item 1. Business

Company Overview

Ameresco is a leading energy infrastructure solutions provider dedicated to helping customers reduce costs, enhance resilience, and decarbonize to net zero in the global energy transition. Our comprehensive portfolio includes implementing smart energy efficiency solutions, upgrading aging infrastructure, and developing, constructing, and operating distributed energy resources.

Our solutions range from upgrades to facility’s energy infrastructure to the development, construction and operation of renewable energy plants combined with tailored financial solutions. We work with customers on both sides of the meter to reduce operating expenses, upgrade and maintain facilities, stabilize energy costs, improve occupancy comfort levels, increase energy reliability and enhance the environment.

Leveraging budget neutral solutions — including energy savings performance contracts (“ESPCs”) and power purchase agreements (“PPAs”) — we aim to reduce the financial barriers that traditionally hamper energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.

Ameresco helps its customers by reducing energy use and delivering energy infrastructure solutions to Federal, state and local governments, utilities, data centers, educational and healthcare institutions, housing authorities, and commercial and industrial customers across North America and Europe.

We have sourced and raised approximately $7.0 billion in project financing while delivering $18.1 billion in energy solutions since our inception. Our growth is driven by staying ahead of the curve and at the leading edge of innovation taking place in the energy sector, offering new products and services to new and existing customers.

In addition to organic growth, strategic acquisitions of complementary businesses and assets, and entering into joint venture arrangements, have been, and continue to be important components to our growth strategy. These initiatives allow us to broaden our service offerings and expand our geographic reach.

To best serve our expansive customer base, as of December 31, 2025, we have approximately 60 offices located throughout North America and Europe and more than 1,600 dedicated energy and business professionals with years of proven experience and a strong commitment to customer satisfaction. We offer our customers the resources needed to successfully plan, finance, execute and operate energy programs to create sustained economic and operating benefits to fulfill their unique requirements.

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Our Services

Our portfolio of service and product offerings aim to create value and provide energy efficient and power generation solutions to the organizations we serve in the pursuit of a sustainable future.

Demand and Conservation

•Energy Efficiency

•Building Envelope

•HVAC and Indoor Air Quality

•Interior LED Lighting

•LED Street and Area Lighting

•Water Management & Efficiency

•Building Automation Systems & Controls

Generation and Energy Supply

•Biomass

•Biogas, Landfill Gas to Energy and Renewable Natural Gas (“RNG”)

•Cogeneration and Combined Heat and Power (“CHP”)

•Geothermal

•Hydropower

•Solar Power

•Solar Modular Reactors (“SMR”)

•Wind Power

Integrated Infrastructure

•Battery Energy Storage Solutions (“BESS”)

•EV Charging Infrastructure

•Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing

•Microgrids

•Advanced Metering Infrastructure (“AMI”)

•Utility Distribution System

Software and Services

•AssetPlanner Asset Management Platform

•Energy Supply Management

•Solar, BESS, Facilities, Plant Operations & Maintenance (“O&M”)

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

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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, large, complex energy conservation, and energy security projects for the federal government, and municipal-scale street lighting projects incorporating smart city controls.

O&M

After an energy efficiency or renewable energy project is completed, we often provide ongoing O&M services under multi-year contracts. These services offer end-to-end technical guidance and include operating, maintaining, and repairing facility energy systems, such as boilers, chillers, and building controls, as well as central power and small-scale plants. For larger projects, we frequently maintain staff on-site to perform these services. In addition to providing O&M services for our own projects, we also provide similar services on projects we did not construct for various customers.

Ameresco-owned Energy Assets

Ameresco-owned energy assets are small-scale power plants that we develop, design, construct, finance and own/operate and are included in our consolidated balance sheets. These assets may sell electricity, heat, cooling, processed biogas, or renewable biomethane fuel under short-or long-term contracts.

We have constructed and are currently developing, designing, and constructing a wide range of renewable energy plants using:

•biogas (generated from landfills, wastewater treatment plants, and the agricultural sector)

•advanced biofuels

•biomass and other bio-derived fuels

•solar PV

•wind and hydro sources of energy

•battery storage

Most of our renewable energy assets to date have involved the generation and sale of:

•electricity from solar PV or battery storage

•electricity, thermal, renewable fuel, or biomethane using biogas as a feedstock

In the case of our biogas-fueled projects, we purchase biogas that otherwise would be combusted or vented, process it, and either use it as a renewable fuel source in our energy plants to produce and sell electricity and/or thermal, or sell it as a renewable fuel source to a third party. We also design and build and operate and maintain facilities that process biogas into biomethane (or renewable natural gas) that can be transported, primarily through the nation’s natural gas pipeline grid or in some cases through tanker trucks and sold to third parties. The rights to use the site for the plant and the purchase of raw feedstock fuel for the plant are also obtained by us under long-term agreements with terms at least as long as the associated output supply agreement. Our supply agreements typically provide for fixed prices or prices that escalate at a fixed rate or vary based on a market benchmark. See “We may assume responsibility under customer contracts for factors outside our control, including, in connection with some customer projects, the risk that fuel and component prices will increase” in Item 1A, Risk Factors.

As of December 31, 2025, we owned and operated 227 small-scale renewable energy plants including solar PV installations which generate electricity or deliver renewable gas fuel with a combined capacity of approximately 838 megawatt equivalents (“MWe”) and have energy assets in development and construction with a combined capacity of approximately 853 MWe.

The table below shows the type and number of plants we owned and operated as of December 31, 2025:

Plants Owned and OperatedQuantity
Biogas: RNG (1)10
Biogas: non-RNG16
Solar and battery assets197
Other4
Total plants owned and operated227
(1) Includes 1 plant co-owned with non-controlling interest holder

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Other

Our other lines of business include photovoltaic solar energy products and systems (“integrated-PV”), consulting, and enterprise energy management services.

Customer Arrangements

Energy Savings Performance Contracts (“ESPCs”)

For our energy efficiency projects, we typically enter into ESPCs, under which we agree to develop, design, engineer and construct a project for a customer and also commit that the project will satisfy agreed upon performance standards that vary from project to project. These performance commitments are typically based on the design, capacity, efficiency, or operation of the specific equipment and systems we install. Our commitments generally fall into three categories:

•Pre-agreed energy reduction commitment: our customer reviews the project design in advance and agrees that, upon or shortly after completion of the installation of the specified equipment comprising the project, the commitment will have been met.

•Equipment-level commitment: we commit to a level of energy use reduction based on the difference in use measured first with the existing equipment and then with the replacement equipment.

•Whole building-level commitment: requires demonstration of energy usage reduction for a whole building, often based on readings of the utility meter where usage is measured. Depending on the project, the measurement and demonstration may be required only once, upon installation, based on an analysis of one or more sample installations, or may be required to be repeated at agreed upon intervals generally over periods of up to 25 years. We often assist these customers in identifying and obtaining financing through rebate programs, grant programs, third-party lenders, and other sources.

Under our contracts, we typically do not take responsibility for a wide variety of factors outside of our control and exclude or adjust for such factors in commitment calculations. These factors include, among others, variations in energy prices and utility rates, weather, facility occupancy schedules, the amount of energy-using equipment in a facility, and the failure of the customer to operate or maintain the project properly. Typically, our performance commitments apply to the aggregate overall performance of a project rather than to individual energy efficiency measures. Therefore, to the extent an individual measure underperforms, it may be offset by other measures that overperform during the same period. In the event that an energy efficiency project does not perform according to the agreed upon specifications, our agreements typically allow us to satisfy our obligation by adjusting or modifying the installed equipment, installing additional measures to provide substitute energy savings or paying the customer for lost energy savings based on the assumed conditions specified in the agreement. Many of our equipment supply, local design, and installation subcontracts contain provisions that enable us to seek recourse against our vendors or subcontractors if there is a deficiency in our energy reduction commitment. See “We may have liability to our customers under our ESPCs if our projects fail to deliver the energy use reductions to which we are committed under the contract” in Item 1A, Risk Factors.

The projects that we perform for governmental agencies are governed by particular qualification and contracting regimes. Certain states require qualification with an appropriate state agency as a precondition to performing work or appearing as a qualified energy service provider for state, county, and local agencies within the state. For example, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the states of Colorado and Washington pre-qualify energy service providers and provide contract documents that serve as the starting point for negotiations with potential governmental customers. Most of the work that we perform for the federal government is performed under Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (“IDIQ”) and Multiple Award Construction Contract agreements between government agencies and us. These agreements allow us to contract with the relevant agencies to implement energy and infrastructure projects, but no work may be performed unless we and the agency agree on a task order or delivery order governing the provision of a specific project. The government agencies enter into contracts for specific projects on a competitive basis. We are a party to two IDIQ agreements with the U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”), one expiring in 2026 and another expiring in 2028. We are also party to agreements with other federal agencies, including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (“NAVFAC”) Mid-Atlantic, and the U.S. General Services Administration.

Payments by the federal government for energy efficiency measures are based on the services provided and the products installed but are limited to the savings derived from such measures, calculated in accordance with federal regulatory guidelines and the specific contract’s terms. The savings are typically determined by comparing energy use and other costs before and after the installation of the energy efficiency measures, adjusted for changes that affect energy use and other costs but are not caused by the energy efficiency measures.

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Energy Supply Contracts

For the energy assets that we own and operate, we generally enter into (i) long-term power purchase agreements (“PPAs”) to supply electricity, (ii) long-term energy supply agreements (“ESAs”) to supply medium British Thermal Unit (“BTU”) biogas or thermal energy, or (iii) gas purchase agreements (“GPAs”) to supply RNG.

The third parties we enter into PPAs or ESAs with include but are not limited to municipalities, the Federal government, commercial and industrial customers, or utilities. The third parties we sell RNG to include, but are not limited to, brokers, traders, utilities, municipalities, industrial facilities, or other large purchasers of energy.

Our Business Segments

Our company is primarily organized by region, where each region may perform our key services under our various lines of business. Our reportable business segments largely follow our regional segmentation. For the year ended December 31, 2025, our reportable business segments were as follows:

•North America Regions

•U.S. Federal

•All Other

•Renewable Fuels

•Europe

On January 1, 2024, we changed the structure of our internal organization, and our U.S. Regions and Canada are now included in North America Regions. Additionally, our Asset Sustainability Group was formerly included in Canada, but is now included in “All Other”. As a result, previously reported amounts have been reclassified for comparative purposes.

Our North America Regions, U.S. Federal, and Europe segments offer energy efficiency products and services which include the design, engineering, and installation of equipment and other measures to improve the efficiency and control the operation of a facility’s energy infrastructure, renewable energy solutions, and services and the development and construction of small-scale plants that we own or develop for customers that produce electricity, gas, heat, or cooling from renewable sources of energy and O&M services.

Our Renewable Fuels segment sells electricity and processed RNG derived from biomethane from small-scale plants that we own and operate and provides O&M services for customer owned small-scale RNG plants.

The “All Other” category offers software and consulting services and the sale of solar PV energy products and systems which we refer to as integrated-PV.

The table below shows the percentage of revenues by segment for the last three years:

202520242023
% of Revenues by Segment (1)
North America Regions45.8%49.7%44.8%
U.S. Federal15.1%21.0%29.3%
Renewable Fuels8.2%9.8%8.5%
Europe27.4%14.2%10.9%
All Other3.5%5.3%6.5%
Total revenues100.0%100.0%100.0%
(1) See Note 3 “Revenue from Contracts with Customers” for our disaggregated revenue and Note 20 “Business Segment Information” for additional information.

Sales and Marketing

Our sales and marketing approach is to offer customers customized and comprehensive energy efficiency solutions tailored to meet their economic, operational, and technical needs. We identify project opportunities through referrals, requests for proposals (“RFPs”), conferences and events, website, digital campaigns, telemarketing, and repeat business from existing customers. Our direct sales force develops and follows up on customer leads. As of December 31, 2025, we had 117 employees in direct sales.

In preparation for a proposal, our team typically conducts a preliminary audit of the customer’s needs and requirements and identifies areas to enhance efficiencies and reduce costs. We collect and analyze the customer’s utility bill and other data related to energy use. If the bills are complex or numerous, we often utilize our proprietary enterprise energy management software tools to scan, compile and analyze the information. Our experienced engineers visit and assess the customer’s current energy systems

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and infrastructure. Through our knowledge of the federal, state, and local governmental and utility environments, we assess the availability of energy, utility or environmental-based payments for usage reductions or renewable power generation, which helps us optimize the economic benefits of a proposed project for a customer. Once awarded a project, we perform a more detailed audit of the customer’s facilities, which serves as the basis for the final specifications of the project and final contract terms.

For renewable energy plants that are not built or located on a customer’s site or use sources of energy not within the customer’s control, the sales process also involves the identification of sites with attractive sources of renewable energy and obtaining necessary rights and governmental permits to develop a plant on that site. For example, for LFG projects, we start with gaining control of an LFG resource located close to the prospective customer. For solar and wind projects, we look for sites where utilities are interested in purchasing renewable energy power at rates that are sufficient to make a project feasible. Where governmental agencies control the site and resource, such as a landfill owned by a municipality, the customer may be required to issue an RFP to use the site or resource. Once we believe we are likely to obtain the rights to the site and the resource, we seek customers for the energy output of the potential project, with whom we can enter into a long-term PPA.

Customers

We strive to be a trusted sustainability partner creating valued, single-sourced, efficient energy solutions delivered with passion, expertise, teamwork, and a relentless focus on customer satisfaction.

Our customers choose to prioritize efficiency and the development of clean, green energy sources and our solutions are customized to serve the specific needs of each customer and meaningfully reduce or offset their carbon footprint. From energy conservation through a variety of measures to the generation of green, renewable power, our customers and their communities reap the benefits of reducing energy consumption, costs, and associated carbon emissions.

In 2025, we served customers throughout North America and Europe. Approximately 61.0% of our revenues were derived from federal, state, provincial, or local government entities, including public housing authorities, public universities, and municipal utilities. Our federal customers include various divisions of the U.S. federal government. The U.S. federal government is considered a single customer and segment for reporting purposes (see table above under “Our Business Segments”). For the year ended December 31, 2025, our largest 20 customers accounted for approximately 57.2% of our total revenues. Other than the U.S. federal government, no customers represented 10% or more of our revenues during this period.

See “Provisions in our government contracts may harm our business, financial condition and operating results” in Item 1A, Risk Factors for a discussion of special considerations applicable to government contracting.

Competition

While we face significant competition from a large number of companies, we believe that few offer the objective technical expertise and full range of services we do.

Our principal competitors include:

•Smart Energy Solutions: McKinstry, CM3 Building Solutions, CMTA, Inc. (a Legence company), SitelogIQ, ABM Industries, Inc., Southland Industries, Energy Systems Group, LLC, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, NORESCO (a unit of Carrier Global Corporation), Schneider Electric, Siemens Building Technologies, and Trane Technologies (an Ingersoll-Rand company). We compete primarily on the basis of our comprehensive, independent offering of energy efficiency and renewable energy services and the breadth and depth of our expertise.

•Energy Assets: In the LFG and RNG market our principal competitors primarily include large, national project developers and owners of landfills who self-develop projects using LFG from their own landfills, and other national renewable natural gas developers/owners such as Montauk Renewables, Vanguard Renewables, Opal Fuels, and divisions of large multi-national oil and gas conglomerates. In the Solar PV and Battery Storage market our principal competitors include NextEra Energy, Inc., Engie SA, Invenergy, EDF Renewables, and Clearway Energy Group LLC. We may also compete with many large independent power producers and utilities, as well as a large number of smaller developers of renewable energy projects. We compete for renewable energy projects primarily on the basis of our experience, reputation, and ability to identify and complete high quality and cost-effective projects.

•O&M Services: EMCOR Energy Services, Comfort Systems USA, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, and Veolia. In this area, we compete primarily on the basis of our expertise and quality of service.

See “We operate in a highly competitive industry, and our current or future competitors may be able to compete more effectively than we do, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, revenues, growth rates, and market share” in Item 1A, Risk Factors for further discussion of competition.

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Regulatory

Various regulations affect the conduct of our business. Federal and state legislation and regulations enable us to enter into ESPCs with government agencies in the United States. The applicable regulatory requirements for ESPCs differ in each state and between agencies of the federal government. We are also subject to local regulations in the international jurisdictions where we operate, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Greece, Romania and elsewhere in Europe.

Our projects must conform to all applicable electric reliability, building and safety, and environmental regulations and codes, which vary from place to place and time to time. Various federal, state, provincial, and local permits are required to construct an energy efficiency project or renewable energy plant.

Renewable energy projects are also subject to specific governmental safety and economic regulation. States and the federal government typically do not regulate the transportation or sale of LFG unless it is combined with and distributed with natural gas, but this is not uniform among states and may change from time to time. States regulate the retail sale and distribution of natural gas to end-users, although regulatory exemptions from regulation are available in some states for limited gas delivery activities, such as sales only to a single customer. The sale and distribution of electricity at the retail level is subject to state and provincial regulation, and the sale and transmission of electricity at the wholesale level is subject to federal regulation. While we do not own or operate retail-level electric distribution systems or wholesale-level transmission systems, the prices for the products we offer can be affected by the tariffs, rules and regulations applicable to such systems, as well as the prices that the owners of such systems are able to charge. The construction of power generation projects typically is regulated at the state and provincial levels, and the operation of these projects also may be subject to state and provincial regulation as “utilities.” At the federal level, the ownership and operation of, and sale of power from, generation facilities may be subject to regulation under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005 (“PUHCA”), the Federal Power Act (“FPA”), and Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (“PURPA”). Some of our renewable energy projects which are operating as exempt wholesale generators or operating under a special exemption from PUHCA are currently subject to rate regulation for wholesale power sales by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) under the FPA and must comply with certain FERC reporting requirements.

If we pursue projects employing different technologies or with a single project electrical capacity greater than 20 megawatts, we could become subject to some of the regulatory schemes which do not apply to our current projects. In addition, the state, provincial, and federal regulations that govern qualifying facilities and other power sellers frequently change, and the effect of these changes on our business cannot be predicted.

LFG power generation facilities require an air emissions permit, which may be difficult to obtain in certain jurisdictions. Renewable energy projects may also be eligible for certain governmental or government-related incentives from time to time, including tax credits, cash payments in lieu of tax credits, and the ability to sell associated environmental attributes, including carbon credits. Government incentives and mandates typically vary by jurisdiction.

Some of the demand reduction services we provide for utilities and institutional customers are subject to regulatory tariffs imposed under federal and state utility laws. In addition, the operation of, and electrical interconnection for, our renewable energy projects are subject to federal, state, or provincial interconnection and federal reliability standards also set forth in utility tariffs. These tariffs specify rules, business practices, and economic terms to which we are subject. The tariffs are drafted by the utilities and approved by the utilities’ state, provincial, or federal regulatory commissions.

See our section entitled “Risks related to Regulations or Governmental Actions” in Item 1A, Risk Factors.

Human Capital Management

We believe our employees are Ameresco’s greatest resource, as they come together to creatively integrate our advanced technology portfolio and develop innovative, transformative energy solutions for our customers.

The breath of our team coupled with our deep bench of technical expertise enables us to tackle the most complex energy opportunities. Supporting our employees and the communities in which we serve is paramount to our success.

We focus on team-based employee philanthropy, wellness-focused employee benefits, and donating our time to our local communities through education and training.

As of December 31, 2025, we had a total of 1,601 employees based in 45 U.S. states, including the District of Columbia, eight Canadian provinces, four locations throughout the United Kingdom, one location in Italy, and one in Greece.

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Philanthropic Activities

We actively participate in philanthropic activities that support our local communities and provide an opportunity for dynamic team building. During 2025, we hosted eight volunteer initiatives sponsored by members of our executive management team. Our employees were encouraged to use paid community service days to donate time and creative energy to these events as well as organizations that touch them personally and to give back to the environment and their communities. As a result, we experienced increased participation in both the utilization of our volunteer hours and activities.

Culture and Engagement

We welcome, support, and celebrate many ways of thinking. We believe innovation demands variety of thought, and Ameresco has done well by welcoming and celebrating employees from a wide range of backgrounds. We are proud to be an employer that believes in equal opportunity for everyone.

To foster a healthy, vibrant, and innovative environment, we educate our employees on collaborative and respectful problem-solving skills and how to navigate different points of view in a positive and productive way.

Recruiting is a key element in our commitment to equal opportunity. We are keen to bring talented and qualified individuals into our company. Our talent team focuses on bringing a wide range of candidates into our pipeline and is trained in skills-based recruiting to identify qualified candidates that meet our needs.

Benefits with a Purpose

The health, safety, and well-being of our employees continues to be a top priority at Ameresco. In addition to competitive salaries, we are committed to regularly evaluating a competitive benefits portfolio, striving to provide resources to our employees that assist with work-life balance.

While employee healthcare costs and access to a wide variety of medical providers have always been at the top of our criteria list, we also continued to focus our 2025 benefit offerings on choice and our mental health and well-being offerings. We want to ensure our employees have a variety of help and resources available, offered through platforms and services they feel comfortable using, should they need it.

In addition, we offer a comprehensive Employee Assistance Plan to all Ameresco global employees and their family members should they need assistance with life planning matters. Through our benefit offerings, our employees can also take advantage of tools and benefits to enhance their physical, mental or financial health.

Career Advancement

Ameresco strives to implement creative ways for our employees to support career advancement. To facilitate our employees’ career development with a focus on retention, we have increased the frequency of career path discussions, training, and succession planning. During 2025, we also improved our performance management process and continued our mentorship program pairing employees with mentors within our leadership team focusing on established goals and guidance with various skills.

When it comes to the innovative solutions that we deliver to our customers, it is critical for the Ameresco team to be at the forefront. Every month our Corporate Marketing Team hosts a Center of Excellence in Advance Technology training session available to all employees. Each session features a different topic to cover various aspects of Ameresco’s solution portfolio and is presented by our internal subject matter experts. All employees are encouraged to attend live and participate in the Q&A.

We launched Udemy for Business as our cornerstone of digital learning and development that is available to all employees globally. In 2025, we also launched a manager development program focused on enhancing management and leadership skills for managers across all parts of the organization.

We provide a tuition reimbursement program to support career development within our organization. In addition, we support employee growth by investing in career advancing certification programs.

For more information on our initiatives noted above, please see our 2025 Impact Report to be published in 2026 which will be available at www.ameresco.com.

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Seasonality

See “Our business is affected by seasonal trends and construction cycles, and these trends and cycles could have an adverse effect on our operating results” in Item 1A, Risk Factors and “Overview — Effects of Seasonality” in Item 7, Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” for a discussion of seasonality in our business.

Geographic Information

Financial information about our domestic and international operations may be found in Note 16, “Geographic Information” of our consolidated financial statements included in Item 8 of this Form 10-K, which information is incorporated herein by reference.

Additional Information

Periodic reports, proxy statements, and other information are available to the public, free of charge, on our website, www.ameresco.com, as soon as reasonably practicable after they have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), and through the SEC’s website, www.sec.gov. We include our website address in this report only as an inactive textual reference and do not intend it to be an active link to our website. None of the material on our website is part of this Report.