Ameresco Secures $42 Million Contract to Modernize Electric and Water Metering Infrastructure for the City of Columbia, MO

The $42 million project extends Ameresco’s existing collaboration with Columbia beyond upgrades at the Armory Sports and Recreation Center.

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Water and electric meter modernization will strengthen reliability, transparency, and long-term service for Missouri residents

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. & COLUMBIA, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Ameresco, Inc., (NYSE: AMRC), a leading energy infrastructure company delivering integrated solutions to create reliable power and modernize infrastructure, today announced that the City of Columbia, Missouri, has selected Ameresco to implement a citywide Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) project. The project is expected to modernize the City's utility infrastructure while delivering substantial benefits in operational efficiency, customer service, and data transparency.

City of Columbia Selects Ameresco for $42M AMI Modernization

The project, valued at $42M, will replace approximately 53,992 electric meters and 52,747 water meters across Columbia, along with the installation of a new AMI network, meter data management software, and integration with the City's existing billing and customer portal systems. The upgrade will replace metering infrastructure that has exceeded its useful life, giving the City a connected system built for long-term operational reliability, with improved metering accuracy expected to generate operational savings and increased revenue over time.

The upgrade is expected to deliver a range of additional benefits for both residents and City operations, including:

• Transparent, near real-time access to electric and water usage data
• Faster outage and leak detection
• More accurate and equitable billing
• Reduced field service and meter reading costs
• Improved data to support future infrastructure planning

"Modernizing our metering infrastructure gives the City better visibility into how our systems are performing and allows us to respond more quickly to service needs," said Gwen Corches, Assistant Director, Electric Utility for the City of Columbia. "With more accurate, timely data, we can improve the resident experience today while giving our teams the information they need to plan for the community’s future."

For both Ameresco and Columbia, the project represents a long-term investment in modernizing the critical public infrastructure residents depend on for accurate, reliable service. The AMI project builds on an existing collaboration between Ameresco and the City, which also includes a separate project to modernize 22-year-old HVAC systems and interior lighting at the historic Armory Sports and Recreation Center (Armory), originally built in 1939 and last remodeled in 2000.

“This project reflects Columbia’s continued commitment to investing in the infrastructure that supports its community,” said Louis Maltezos, Co-President of Ameresco. “Modernizing its metering infrastructure is an important step in strengthening the systems residents depend on every day, while creating a foundation for future needs. We’re proud to continue supporting the City as it invests in both its future and its history.”

To learn more about Ameresco’s AMI and Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) solutions, visit https://www.ameresco.com/advanced-metering-infrastucture/.

About Ameresco, Inc.
Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE: AMRC) is a leading energy infrastructure company delivering integrated solutions to create reliable power and modernize infrastructure. The company’s Power Infrastructure business integrates energy resources across behind-the-meter and utility-scale systems. Its Buildings & Public Infrastructure business modernizes the built environment with smart, connected solutions that optimize performance and enhance resilience. Ameresco is a trusted full lifecycle partner, delivering over $15 billion in solutions and contracting over 5 GW of energy resources since its founding in 2000. Headquartered in Massachusetts, Ameresco serves public and private sector customers across North America and Europe. Learn more at www.ameresco.com.

The announcement of a customer’s entry into a project contract is not necessarily indicative of the timing or amount of revenue from such contract, of Ameresco’s overall revenue for any particular period or of trends in Ameresco’s overall total project backlog. This project was included in Ameresco’s previously reported awarded backlog as of June 30, 2026.

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Media Contact:
Ameresco: Leila Dillon, 508-661-2264, news@ameresco.com

Source: Ameresco, Inc.

Key Terms

advanced metering infrastructure technical

A network of digital meters, communication systems and data platforms that lets utilities read usage remotely, detect outages, and send or receive signals about supply and demand. Think of it as the utility’s nervous system that replaces periodic manual meter readings with continuous, two-way data flow. Investors care because it changes how utilities earn and spend money: it can cut operating costs, enable new services and pricing, improve revenue accuracy, and create capital needs and cybersecurity risks that affect returns.

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Automatic meter reading is a technology that collects energy, water or gas usage data from customers’ meters remotely and automatically, without a person visiting each site. For investors it matters because it can lower operating costs, improve billing accuracy and enable new services like real‑time usage insights — similar to replacing paper mail with email, it speeds information flow and can boost efficiency and customer retention for utilities and service providers.