Street smarts

Street smarts is a Commercial and Public Lighting (Energy Efficiency) project located across various road networks and public spaces in the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia. It was registered in December 2017. Because it involves distributed public infrastructure rather than a single plot of land, the specific project area size and coordinates are not applicable or disclosed on the public registry.

Commercial and Public Lighting projects involve modifying or replacing existing lighting systems with more energy-efficient technologies to reduce electricity consumption and the associated grid emissions. This specific project achieves this by upgrading traditional road and public space lighting to highly efficient LED luminaires.

As this is an urban infrastructure and energy efficiency initiative, traditional environmental conditions such as rainfall classifications or soil types (e.g., basalt or clay) do not dictate the project's viability or operation. Instead, the surrounding environments largely consist of urban, suburban, and regional transport corridors where municipal land use dominates over agricultural grazing or cropping.

Since its registration, the project has successfully been issued 8,898 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs). An interesting administrative note about this project is that in May 2020, the project recorded a participant name variation, with the proponent officially changing from Australian Integrated Carbon Financial Services Pty Ltd to Emissions Reduction Group Pty Ltd.