FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 29, 2026--
Ameresco, Inc., (NYSE: AMRC), a leading energy infrastructure company delivering integrated solutions to create reliable power and modernize infrastructure, today announced that Louis Maltezos, Co-President, has been named the winner of a Gold Stevie® Award in the Executive of the Year – Energy Technology category in the third annual Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence.
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The Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence celebrate the remarkable accomplishments of individuals, teams, and organizations shaping the future of technology across all industry sectors.
Mr. Maltezos has built a track record as a results-oriented executive who turns strategy into measurable outcomes. As demand for resilient, cost-effective energy infrastructure has accelerated, he has taken on a central role in operational execution, market growth, and the expansion of Ameresco's Buildings & Public Infrastructure business with a focus on energy efficiency and distributed energy solutions.
Mr. Maltezos was recognized for his project leadership across public sectors and education. His work in K-12 stands out for helping districts reduce energy costs amid tight budgets while giving students exposure to real-world energy infrastructure technology. Projects in Saginaw Public Schools and Tacoma Public Schools reflect his ability to deliver scalable solutions with both financial and community benefits. This recognition follows his 2026 appointment to Co-President, a role in which he has continued unifying regional teams across geographies and advancing deployment of Ameresco's Smart Building Solutions portfolio.
"Lou's leadership reflects exactly what this award recognizes: the ability to turn complex energy infrastructure challenges into practical solutions with lasting impact for our partners and communities," said George Sakellaris, Chief Executive Officer of Ameresco. "This honor is a well-deserved recognition of his vision and the impact he continues to have across our organization."
More than 180 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year's honorees.
"I'm honored to be recognized by the Stevie Awards. This recognition also reflects the work of our teams on the ground, from the districts and municipal leaders we collaborate with to the colleagues driving these projects every day," said Maltezos. "Our focus has always been on delivering reliable energy infrastructure that produces real, measurable results for our partners and the communities they serve."
Details about the Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence and the list of 2026 Stevie winners are available at http://Tech.StevieAwards.com.
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.
About the Stevie Awards
The Stevie® Awards, widely recognized as the world's premier business awards, are nicknamed the Stevies, derived from the Greek word stephanos, meaning "crowned." The Stevie Awards are conferred through nine programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service.
The Stevie Awards receive more than 12,000 nominations each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.
Ameresco Co-President Louis Maltezos was honored as a Gold Stevie® Award winner in the Executive of the Year – Energy Technology category
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian ballistic missile and drone barrage across Ukraine overnight killed at least 10 civilians, including children, and injured more than 50 others, officials said Thursday, and NATO scrambled its warplanes after one of the missiles crossed the country's western border into Poland.
The blitz expanded Russia’s almost daily bombardment of Ukrainian cities, including the capital of Kyiv where tens of thousands spent the night sheltering in subway stations, as Moscow apparently looked to exploit Kyiv’s critical shortage of Western-supplied anti-ballistic missile defenses.
NATO said a Russian missile entered Polish airspace during the onslaught and landed in a rural area. It caused no injuries or damage but could deepen tensions between the military alliance and Moscow, as wary European countries fear the 4-year-old war could spill into their territory.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte called it “yet another reckless act by Russia and a dangerous consequence of its war against Ukraine.”
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said it was “a very serious incident,” but added: “There are absolutely no reasons to believe that Poland was the target.”
Russia's barrage struck areas of Ukraine where weapons are believed to be stored and manufactured. Ukrainian long-range drones and missiles have battered Russia's oil sector, causing a fuel crisis.
The attack came two days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with U.S. President Donald Trump and representatives of American defense companies as he pleads for swifter and bigger deliveries of Patriot air defense systems to stop Russia’s ballistic missiles.
The Iran war has drained stockpiles of the U.S.-made interceptors. Trump has promised to grant Ukraine licenses to build its own Patriots, but production could take many months.
“Given the critical shortage of air defense missiles from our partners, our warriors are accomplishing truly incredible things, demonstrating a very high level of professionalism,” Zelenskyy said on social media.
“This Russian terror once again proves that protection against the Russian missile threat is the most important task when it comes to saving the lives of our people,” he said.
Zelenskyy said at least 10 Ukrainian regions were attacked, with dozens of homes, businesses and infrastructure facilities destroyed or damaged.
Russia launched more than 70 missiles, a significant number of them ballistic missiles, he said, and over 280 attack drones, of which more than 260 were intercepted.
The Russian Defense Ministry said it targeted Ukrainian air bases, arms factories and military telecommunications and logistics facilities, including drone factories and storage depots, as well as plants for missiles, aircraft repairs, electronics and chemicals.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Russian attack killed six people and wounded 10, said Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the regional military administration, in a post on Telegram. Children were among the dead — a 6-year-old girl and boys aged 11 and 17 in the area of Kryvyi Rih, Zelenskyy's hometown, Hanzha added.
The children’s parents were killed in the same attack, but two more children were pulled alive from the rubble, Zelenskyy said.
“It was an ordinary home, blown (to) smithereens by a ballistic missile,” he said on X.
In Kyiv, Russian forces struck the capital with ballistic missiles, killing a 31-year-old man and wounding two others, the National Police press service said.
More than 56,000 people sheltered in Kyiv’s subway stations overnight, according to the Facebook post from the metro system.
A cruise missile attack struck the western city of Lviv, killing one person and wounding over 30, including children aged 6, 13 and 15, said Maksym Kozytskyi, head of the Lviv regional military administration.
In the Poltava region, a drone hit warehouses, killing one person, said regional military head Vitalii Diakivnych.
Closer to the front line, which comes under almost daily attack, Russian forces dropped three glide bombs on an industrial zone in the southern city of Kherson, killing a 56-year-old man, local officials said.
A Russian Kh-101 cruise missile crossed into Poland overnight, violating NATO airspace, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on X, calling it a clear demonstration that strengthening Ukraine’s air defenses would also guarantee wider European security.
Responding to the missile alert, NATO forces in Poland scrambled two fighter jets, an attack helicopter and two other aircraft, and activated ground defenses, said Col. Michael O’Donnell, the spokesperson for the alliance’s military command in Belgium.
The missile quickly disappeared from radar, the Polish Armed Forces said. A helicopter flew to its last known location, where the crew discovered a probable impact site in a farming area in Lublin province, the command said.
Investigators found fragments indicating that the object was a Kh-101 missile, Polish news agency PAP reported.
Tusk had met with Zelenskyy in Lublin on Wednesday to discuss defense issues.
NATO military commander Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich told Poland’s Defense Chief Gen. Wiesław Kukułan the military alliance “will continue to take all necessary measures to defend NATO territory,” O’Donnell said.
Meanwhile, Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses downed 258 Ukrainian drones overnight.
A depot belonging to Wildberries online retailer was set ablaze in Russia's Penza region southeast of Moscow, in the latest strike on the company's warehouses, Penza Gov. Oleg Melnichenko said.
Four people were injured and 200 workers were evacuated, he said, adding that about 100 firefighters were deployed.
Wildberries also reported its warehouse in Sarapul in the Udmurtia region, more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) from Ukraine, was struck by a Ukrainian drone and set ablaze. It said the workers had been safely evacuated.
The Russian online news outlet Astra reported that another Wildberries depot in the Perm region in the Urals was also set ablaze by a Ukrainian drone strike. Regional authorities reported a Ukrainian drone attack but didn’t give information about the damage.
Thursday’s attacks on Wildberries warehouses brought to 14 the number of the retailer’s depots struck by Ukrainian drones in under two weeks. Ukraine accuses Wildberries of supplying goods that can be used by the Russian military.
Ukrainian drone units destroyed four more vessels belonging to Russia’s “shadow fleet” of sanctions-busting tankers, bringing the total to 205 since the operation began July 6, Robert Brovdi, commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces, said on his Telegram channel.
An earlier version of this story had the incorrect name for the spokesperson for NATO’s military command in Belgium. He is Col. Michael O’Donnell, not O'Connell.
AP reporter Stefanie Dazio in Berlin; Rafal Niedzielski in Warsaw, Poland; and Sam McNeil in Brussels contributed.
Follow the AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
An owner looks at the ruins of city market place following Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Rescuers work at the damaged apartment building following a Russian air attack in Lviv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, rescuers search through the rubble at a private house following Russian air attack in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, Thursday, July 30, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
Rescuers search through the rubble of a residential building following a Russian air attack in Lviv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys)
A man watches as rescuers clear the rubble at the damaged apartment building in a residential neighbourhood following a Russian air attack in Lviv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys)
Rescuers search through the rubble of a residential building following air attack in Lviv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys)
