Demand Manager ERF Commercial and Public Lighting Aggregation Project #1 (Revoked)

Demand Manager ERF Commercial and Public Lighting Aggregation Project #1 (Revoked) is an energy efficiency project located across various urban and commercial centers nationwide in Australia. It was registered in September 2015 and the total project area is unknown, as it aggregates multiple indoor and outdoor built environments across the country rather than covering a single continuous land mass.

Commercial and public lighting projects involve upgrading, modifying, replacing, and supplementing existing lighting systems with more energy-efficient alternatives. Project activities for this specific aggregation include installing LED luminaires and advanced control gear. Standard requirements for this methodology involve calculating the electricity savings against a historical baseline to generate Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs), ensuring the new lighting meets relevant national lighting and safety standards.

Because this is a nationwide aggregation project, the regional land use primarily consists of urban, commercial, and industrial built environments. Consequently, the environmental conditions vary significantly across the aggregated sites, spanning from high rainfall coastal regions to semi-arid inland areas, with underlying soil types ranging from coastal sandy loams to heavy inland clays.

This project was established to improve energy efficiency in serviced areas but was officially revoked on April 3, 2018, under section 30 of the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Rule. The project proponent, Demand Manager Pty. Ltd., is a major player in energy efficiency certificates and has historically been one of the largest certificate creators under the New South Wales Energy Savings Scheme (ESS).