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Business Wire
28-05-2025
- Automotive
- Business Wire
Ameresco Drives Cost Savings for Los Angeles Unified School District With Over 2.7 MW in Solar PV Projects
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. & LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE: AMRC), a leading energy solutions provider dedicated to helping customers navigate the energy transition, today announced its partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to develop and install solar shade and carport structures at five middle school campuses in the district. Ameresco is developing over 2.7 MW of solar carport and shade structure PV systems, and electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, for five middle schools in LAUSD: Northridge Middle School, Pacoima Middle School, Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies, Sun Valley Magnet School and Sutter Middle School. The projects will provide shaded parking for faculty, staff, parents, and visitors to the schools, and EV charging stations to support city- and state-wide goals of widespread EV adoption over the next decade. 'We're looking forward to working with Ameresco to reduce the district's carbon footprint and lowering our operating expenses for utilities,' said Alberto M. Carvalho, Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District. 'Our K-12 school communities will benefit not only from the recurring cost savings from these projects, but also from the firsthand experience watching energy systems of the future installed at their own schools. It's a terrific way to prepare our students for the world they are going to inherit.' In addition to project development and installation, Ameresco is providing operations and maintenance (O&M) of the installed systems, and a 25-year performance guarantee. The $20.7 million project being implemented by Ameresco is part of larger program to install solar at 21 LAUSD schools. This program supports the LAUSD Board of Education 2019 Clean Energy Resolution to provide 100% clean energy by 2040. 'Our team is always thrilled to have the opportunity to support school districts in their transition to clean energy solutions,' said Louis Maltezos, President of Central & Western USA, Canada Regions at Ameresco. 'And, in light of the challenges faced by the community in and around the Los Angeles area during the recent wildfires, Ameresco is proud to partner with LAUSD to implement these clean, renewable energy projects that will provide direct benefits to the district while contributing to improved energy resilience in the area.' LAUSD's solar PV program also supports a larger effort to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2035 in alignment with the City of Los Angeles' commitment to achieving the same goal. In 2021, the City and the LA Department of Water and Power (LADWP) adopted this goal based on a study from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the LA100 Study. The study demonstrated the benefits of targeting an ambitious goal to rapidly deploy wind, solar and storage technologies to modernize the city's electricity infrastructure, build resiliency via diversified energy sources and increase equity in both participation and outcomes. Further incentive for LAUSD to install PV technology, besides aligning with LA100 goals, is the net cost avoidance the project is expected to deliver. Including implementation, O&M and Performance Guarantee costs, the net cost avoidance from the 21-school program is expected to total up to $45.7 million. The utility cost avoidance delivered by the entire 21-school program is expected to amount to up to $168 million in general fund relief over the 25-year project term, allowing LAUSD to focus resources on student achievement and other core initiatives. To learn more about solar and electric vehicle infrastructure project offerings from Ameresco, visit About Ameresco, Inc. Founded in 2000, Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC) is a leading energy 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. As a trusted full-service partner, Ameresco shows the way by reducing energy use and delivering diversified generation solutions to Federal, state and local governments, utilities, educational and healthcare institutions, housing authorities, and commercial and industrial customers. Headquartered in Framingham, MA, Ameresco has more than 1,500 employees providing local expertise in North America and Europe. For more information, visit 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 contracted backlog as of March 31, 2025.
Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Ameresco Drives Cost Savings for Los Angeles Unified School District With Over 2.7 MW in Solar PV Projects
The $20 million bond funded projects will install EV chargers and PV shade structure technology at five middle schools as part of an initiative to build energy resiliency across Los Angeles FRAMINGHAM, Mass. & LOS ANGELES, May 28, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE: AMRC), a leading energy solutions provider dedicated to helping customers navigate the energy transition, today announced its partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to develop and install solar shade and carport structures at five middle school campuses in the district. Ameresco is developing over 2.7 MW of solar carport and shade structure PV systems, and electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, for five middle schools in LAUSD: Northridge Middle School, Pacoima Middle School, Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies, Sun Valley Magnet School and Sutter Middle School. The projects will provide shaded parking for faculty, staff, parents, and visitors to the schools, and EV charging stations to support city- and state-wide goals of widespread EV adoption over the next decade. "We're looking forward to working with Ameresco to reduce the district's carbon footprint and lowering our operating expenses for utilities," said Alberto M. Carvalho, Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District. "Our K-12 school communities will benefit not only from the recurring cost savings from these projects, but also from the firsthand experience watching energy systems of the future installed at their own schools. It's a terrific way to prepare our students for the world they are going to inherit." In addition to project development and installation, Ameresco is providing operations and maintenance (O&M) of the installed systems, and a 25-year performance guarantee. The $20.7 million project being implemented by Ameresco is part of larger program to install solar at 21 LAUSD schools. This program supports the LAUSD Board of Education 2019 Clean Energy Resolution to provide 100% clean energy by 2040. "Our team is always thrilled to have the opportunity to support school districts in their transition to clean energy solutions," said Louis Maltezos, President of Central & Western USA, Canada Regions at Ameresco. "And, in light of the challenges faced by the community in and around the Los Angeles area during the recent wildfires, Ameresco is proud to partner with LAUSD to implement these clean, renewable energy projects that will provide direct benefits to the district while contributing to improved energy resilience in the area." LAUSD's solar PV program also supports a larger effort to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2035 in alignment with the City of Los Angeles' commitment to achieving the same goal. In 2021, the City and the LA Department of Water and Power (LADWP) adopted this goal based on a study from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the LA100 Study. The study demonstrated the benefits of targeting an ambitious goal to rapidly deploy wind, solar and storage technologies to modernize the city's electricity infrastructure, build resiliency via diversified energy sources and increase equity in both participation and outcomes. Further incentive for LAUSD to install PV technology, besides aligning with LA100 goals, is the net cost avoidance the project is expected to deliver. Including implementation, O&M and Performance Guarantee costs, the net cost avoidance from the 21-school program is expected to total up to $45.7 million. The utility cost avoidance delivered by the entire 21-school program is expected to amount to up to $168 million in general fund relief over the 25-year project term, allowing LAUSD to focus resources on student achievement and other core initiatives. To learn more about solar and electric vehicle infrastructure project offerings from Ameresco, visit About Ameresco, in 2000, Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC) is a leading energy 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. As a trusted full-service partner, Ameresco shows the way by reducing energy use and delivering diversified generation solutions to Federal, state and local governments, utilities, educational and healthcare institutions, housing authorities, and commercial and industrial customers. Headquartered in Framingham, MA, Ameresco has more than 1,500 employees providing local expertise in North America and Europe. For more information, visit 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 contracted backlog as of March 31, 2025. View source version on Contacts Media Contact: Ameresco: Leila Dillon, 508-661-2264, news@
Yahoo
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
LAUSD Accused of Mishandling $77 Million in Arts Education Funds
Los Angeles Unified School District faces a lawsuit alleging misuse of $76.7 million in taxpayer funds that voters approved to expand arts and music education. The L.A. Superior Court filing targets both the district and Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho, claiming LAUSD failed to hire new teachers as required by Proposition 28 since its 2022 LAUSD superintendent Austin Beutner, who authored Prop. 28, filed the suit Monday alongside eight students represented by their parents. "We're suing to make sure that the district follows through with the law, hires more teachers and provides more arts instruction to kids in public schools, every school," says suit, backed by the district's major labor unions including United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), Service Employees International Union Local 99, and Teamsters Local 572, argues that without new teacher hires, arts education remains stagnant. One plaintiff, a 15-year-old at Franklin High School, reports never taking an arts class at either Franklin or her previous LAUSD school. Parent Vicky Martinez, who has three children in LAUSD schools, notes: "There are no additional arts or theater or music teachers. My youngest, who's in middle school, doesn't have any arts whatsoever."More than two years ago, artists and educators across California rallied to address long-standing gaps in arts education through Prop. 28. The measure passed with overwhelming support – 70% of L.A. County voters backed it, along with prominent artists like Dr. Dre and The law mandates California allocate general fund money to expand arts education, generating $938 million statewide last year. LAUSD received $76.7 million, with 80% designated for hiring new art March, before filing the suit, Beutner and his associates sent a letter to the governor and state leaders claiming the district violated the law. "It's clear that Californians overwhelmingly want more arts and music in public schools," the letter states. "It has come to our attention, some school districts in California are willfully violating the law by using the new funds provided by Prop. 28 to replace existing spending for arts education at schools."The district maintains compliance with state guidelines. In a statement Monday, LAUSD officials said they hadn't received notice of the lawsuit but "continue to follow implementation guidance as provided by the state of California to ensure that we are fully complying with the requirements of Prop. 28."LAUSD cites increased arts funding from $114 million in 2022-23 to over $206 million in 2023-24, with schools averaging an $82,000 boost to their arts budgets. They report arts staffing grew from 273 to 520 full-time employees. In a June 2024 memo to the Board of Education, Superintendent Carvalho stated that "the district prioritized the use of Prop. 28 funds to cover existing staff as well as hire new staff."Beutner challenges these figures: "Long Beach receives about $10 million a year from Prop. 28. They've hired 150 additional arts teachers. By that same standard, L.A. Unified should have hired more than 1,000. It hasn't happened." UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz criticizes the situation: "I am frustrated and exasperated by this kind of shell game that we're playing with voters' money, and we're also playing with students, our babies, in this district, that deserve to have arts education on a daily basis in their schools."The plaintiffs claim funding from Prop. 28 is being misallocated. The funds are meant to hire additional staff, not cover existing salaries. School districts must use the money to increase, not replace, existing arts and music funding. Despite repeated requests over the past year, the district has not released key budget documents that would clarify how it allocated these funds.
CBS News
06-02-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
Protests against immigration crackdown continue in Los Angeles for a fourth day
Demonstrators gathered outside Los Angeles City Hall Wednesday as protests against the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration continued in LA for a fourth day. Since Sunday, protesters have been marching through LA streets carrying signs blasting ICE raids and advocating for immigrants, blocking the 101 Freeway on the first day of demonstrations. For the last three days, the Los Angeles Police Department has ended up declaring each of the gatherings "an unlawful assembly" and forcing them to disperse. Students from schools in East Los Angeles and South Los Angeles have walked out of their campuses in joining the protests. U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement, ICE, has been planning on ramping up raids in major cities such as Chicago as part of a sweeping crackdown. Within his first month in office, President Trump issued a series of executive orders moving to shut down admissions for asylum seekers and refugees, tasking the military with border enforcement and attempting to eliminate birthright citizenship — a right protected by the Fourteenth Amendment for more than 100 years. On Wednesday, as protests continued in LA, a federal judge in Maryland temporarily blocked the executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship from taking effect nationwide. Advocacy groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union have filed lawsuits in challenges to some of the other immigration-related orders. In downtown Los Angeles, LAPD issued several traffic advisories Wednesday, announcing demonstrators had gathered on the steps of City Hall just before noon before marching back to the building about an hour later. A day earlier, aerial footage captured students at Bravo Medical Magnet School in Boyle Heights walking from the campus toward city hall. Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho had encouraged students not to stay home, and instead, to protest "within the school facilities." Last week, the school district handed out "Know Your Rights" cards to students and staff in preparation for potential ICE raids, offering information on how to respond if approached by federal agents. Some of the signs carried by protesters Wednesday featured messages such as "School is for education, not immigration" and "My parents fought for my future, now I'll fight for theirs." On Monday, protesters gathered in downtown LA as part of a National Day of Action, with about 1,000 people filling two freeway overpasses for the 101 before police blocked freeway ramps to keep them from marching onto the freeway. The same day, demonstrators gathered at city hall to support the nationwide initiative, "A Day Without Immigrants." "The message is to the people, don't be scared and that we have rights as a community, as immigrants – don't be scared," said one of the protesters at the gathering, Elizabeth Henriquez. Across the U.S., some businesses closed Monday as part of the nationwide initiative, from hair salons to grocery stories, the Associated Press reported. Demonstrations against the Trump administration's immigration policies have also broke out in other parts of Southern California, including areas of the Inland Empire and Ventura County.
CBS News
04-02-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
Third day of immigration policy protests continue downtown Los Angeles
For the third day, demonstrators continued protesting the Trump administration's immigration policies in downtown Los Angeles, with some neighboring high school students joining the effort as they walked off campus midday. Groups of students from Marshall High School, James A. Garfield High School and Bravo Medical Magnet School walked off campus in student-led demonstrations. Aerial footage showed a large group of Boyle Heights students as they walked along sidewalks from Bravo Medical Magnet School toward city hall. School officials encouraged students to stay on campus for safety purposes, and to "express their views on campus." Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho encouraged students not to stay home, and to protest "within the school facilities." By 1 p.m. on Tuesday, a large group convened at city hall. Protests kicked off on Sunday, where up to 3,000 demonstrators caused traffic disruptions as they closed the 101 Freeway for hours. Police ultimately declared an unlawful assembly and forced the group to disperse. The freeway fully reopened by Sunday night. Los Angeles Police Department officials said five officers sustained minor injuries while responding to the daylong incident pm Sunday. Two arrests were made, one for felony vandalism to an MTA bus and another for assault with a deadly weapon for throwing objects at officers. Four vandalism reports were made for damage to police vehicles, which included slashed tires, and one crime report was filed for pointing a laser at officers. On Monday's National Day of Action, demonstrators took to the streets again, moving through downtown Los Angeles, leading police to issue a dispersal order in the early evening. LAPD officials said by the afternoon, the group had grown to about 800 pedestrians and 200 vehicles. California Highway Patrol officers blocked "multiple attempts" made by demonstrators to get onto the 101 Freeway. By 2:15 p.m., demonstrators breached city hall barriers and "continued to vandalize the area," as fireworks were set off and vehicles burned out. Police said fireworks were being directed toward officers and projectiles were thrown as the crowd grew to about 1,000. Two officers suffered minor injuries but no arrests were made on Monday.
