Clean Energy Technology Lighting (Revoked)

Clean Energy Technology Lighting (Revoked) is an energy efficiency project located across multiple unspecified commercial and public facilities rather than at a single geographic location relative to a major landmark. It was registered on August 24, 2015, and because it is an aggregated commercial project operating within the built environment, it does not have a traditional area size or coordinate data. Due to its nature as an indoor industrial project, standard regional land uses such as grazing, cropping, or forestry do not apply. Similarly, typical environmental conditions like rainfall classifications (e.g., high rainfall, semi-arid) and soil types (e.g., basalt, clay, sandy loam) are not relevant. Instead, the project's environment consists entirely of artificially lit, indoor commercial spaces.

The project operated under the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative-Commercial and Public Lighting) Methodology Determination 2015. Commercial and public lighting projects generate carbon abatement by reducing electricity consumption, and thereby lowering Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions from the grid, through modifying, replacing, or supplementing inefficient legacy lighting with energy-efficient alternatives. Standard requirements for this methodology involve defining a strict project boundary, carefully calculating the baseline energy use of the old lighting compared to the new lighting, and proving the energy savings using specific calculation equations. This specific project's activities focused on the installation of lighting control devices across multiple types of serviced areas to optimize energy use.

Administratively, this project has several interesting milestones. It secured a Carbon Abatement Contract (CAC102002) with the Commonwealth in November 2015. However, the project was revoked under Section 33 of the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) Act on October 8, 2018, which typically indicates a voluntary revocation by the proponent. Consequently, its associated carbon contract was officially marked as lapsed or terminated on June 29, 2021. Interestingly, the proponent, Clean Energy Technology Holdings Pty. Ltd., was also active in other parts of the ACCU scheme, including registering the land-sector Vergemont Regeneration Project (ERF118151), which was similarly revoked. On a broader scheme level, the Australian Government officially revoked the Commercial and Public Lighting methodology entirely in April 2022, determining that such lighting upgrades had become standard industry practice (business-as-usual) and no longer met the required additionality standards for carbon crediting.