Ironbark and MAV Procurement are thrilled to announce that they are again joining forces to assist councils with upgrading their street lights. This time it is in partnership with the Local Government Association of Tasmania (LGAT) as the program is broadened.

The Smart Lighting Program Mark II will again offer councils the opportunity to purchase LEDs directly from a standing panel of lighting suppliers whose LEDs have been approved for use, but there's also some big new additions including a standing panel of installation contractors and other services such as business case development; funding support; lighting design; project planning; on-going project management; council briefing attendance; smart lighting strategy development; and smart lighting and public lighting guidelines.

This EOI has been set up to determine where your council is at with street lighting and what type of support you would like from us. The survey should only take 6-10 minutes to complete, and consists of three pages:

1. Program Expression of Interest
2. Smart Cities Pilot Expression of Interest
3. Non-Standard (Decorative) Lighting Survey

Note that expressing your interest does not commit you to anything. It's just an EOI and we'll be in touch with more information as it becomes available.

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* All Victorian and Tasmanian councils can access the materials and installation panel. Victorian local governments are also offered full program support including project preparation, business case development, procurement, lighting design, project management, smart lighting strategies and guidelines and finalisation. For Tasmanian councils it is currently just for procurement support.

** While the Smart Lighting Program is currently only open to councils from Victoria and Tasmania, if you're from NSW, Qld, SA, WA, ACT or the NT then please instead jump over to the National Smart Lighting Pilots EOI.

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There is fast growing interest in smart cities and smart lighting, with many councils either planning or actually implementing pilot projects.

If your council is intersted in smart lighting, please complete the form below.

In July 2015, councils were able to advocate for a $22m reduction in 5-year maintenance costs (for the 2016-2020 period) through an Australian Energy Regulator (AER) price review known as the Electricity Distribution Price Review (EDPR). This process was resourced through a small group of councils who contributed a combined total of $10,000 for the work, but every council in Victoria benefited from the resulting tariff reductions. Put another way, if this small group of councils didn’t contribute this $10,000 between them, Victorian councils would be paying an extra $22 million in street lighting maintenance.

This EDPR process will be getting underway again soon for the next 5-year process. If it is not properly resourced by councils then street lighting tariff prices put forward by the Distribution Businesses will not be properly challenged. This is the situation in every state and councils need to work together to properly resource the research, advocacy and submissions.

Non-Standard (Decorative) Lighting

As councils steadily progress with the changeover to energy-efficient street lighting, attention is increasingly turning to the replacement of non-standard (decorative) street lighting. This focus is only likely to increase given the impacts of the Minamata Convention on Mercury.

A key barrier to changing decorative lights is that the range of DNSP-approved non-standard LED luminaires is limited, particularly in the post-top and Category V categories. To date, manufacturers have also shown limited interest in seeking DNSP-approval for such LEDs based on the assumption that the market for such luminaires is small.

In order to accelerate the approval of such products, Ironbark is seeking to quantify the size of the potential market (i.e. the number of decoratives, especially post-top and Category V) available for upgrade.