Smart Lighting Upgrade Project

Smart Lighting Upgrade Project is an energy efficiency project located across multiple distributed commercial and public facilities throughout Australia. It was registered on April 5, 2018, and covers an unspecified total area size, as the project occurs across various built environments rather than a single continuous rural property. Because coordinates are unavailable and the project operates within existing infrastructure across multiple serviced areas, a specific distance to a single major town cannot be provided. Consequently, traditional regional land uses, such as grazing, cropping, or forestry, along with specific environmental conditions like rainfall classifications and soil types, are not directly applicable to the indoor and urban abatement sites of this project.

The project involves modifying, replacing, or supplementing existing energy-intensive lighting systems. Specifically, the project activities focus on removing older high-pressure sodium lamps and upgrading them to highly efficient LED luminaires. These activities fall under the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative-Commercial and Public Lighting) Methodology Determination 2015. This energy efficiency methodology generates Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) by calculating the electricity and greenhouse gas emissions saved when commercial and public lighting networks are upgraded to modern, energy-efficient standards.

The project is managed by the proponent Northmore Gordon Environmental Pty Ltd. Interestingly, Northmore Gordon has utilised ACCUs generated from this very project to offset their own corporate carbon footprint; during their 2022-2023 reporting period, the company retired 379 ACCUs from the Smart Lighting Upgrade Project to offset a rounding error and help maintain their corporate Climate Active Carbon Neutral certification. Furthermore, it is notable that the Commercial and Public Lighting methodology determination used for this project was revoked by the government in 2021, meaning no new projects can be registered under this specific method.