Official Information Request - installation of LED streetlighting

Sent: Thursday, 16 February 2023 4:32 pm
Subject: LGOIMA request - installation/retrofitting of LED streetlighting

I refer to your Official Information Act request of 23 January 2023 regarding the installation/retrofitting of LED streetlighting in the Rotorua Lakes Council district. Please find the information below as per your email:

1. Has your territorial authority taken part in the NLTF funding scheme for the accelerated roll-out of LED road lighting? Yes

2a. How many fixtures are currently in place and owned by your territorial authority? (If it is known how many are owned by NZTA Waka Kotahi within your territorial authority please also separately provide this information?)
5,839 RLC; 1203 NZTA

b. How many of these fixtures (answer 2a) are LED?
5,350 RLC; 294 NZTA

c. Of these LED fixtures, what was the year of installation? (Please provide number of fixtures installed in each calendar year)
Council does not record how many fixtures are installed per year. From 2015-2023 fixtures have been replaced with LED as required, including 4,134 in an LED upgrade in 2021/22

d. How many of these (a) are not yet LED and are currently scheduled to be retrofitted/replaced with LED in the future, and in which calendar year?
No retrofits/replacements are scheduled – fixtures will be replaced with LED as and when required

e. How many of these (a) are not yet LED and are not currently scheduled for retrofitting/replacement with LED?
489 RLC; 909 NZTA

f. How many additional fixtures are currently scheduled to be installed in your territorial authority (in addition to the current streetlights referred to in answer 2a, e.g. in new subdivisions), in which calendar year, and how many of these will be LED fixtures?
No fixtures are scheduled to be installed, however any new subdivision fixtures will be LED.

3. How many TA owned fixtures of which CCT colour temperature are installed, specifically:

a. What is the CCT colour temperature (e.g 3000K or 4000K) of the TA owned LED fixtures currently installed (referring to answer 2b)? 4000k

b. What will be the CCT colour temperature of any future retrofitted TA owned LED fixtures (referring to answer 2d)? 4000k

c. What will be the CCT colour temperature of any additional future TA owned LED fixtures (referring to answer 2f)?
4000k

For questions 3a-c, if different colour temperatures are (to be) installed, please provide a breakdown of how many at which temperature (e.g. 20 fixtures at 3000K, 123 at 4000K). If colour temperature is determined by road categories, please provide details on the CCT by road type, and the number of street lights per road type.
N/A

4. How many of the current TA owned LED fixtures (answer 1b):

a. have central management system (CMS) technology?
Nil

b. have wireless CMS technology?
Nil

c. are being controlled using CMS beyond time-based on/off controls? (If any, please see question 4f)
Nil

d. are control-enabled? (i.e. they are not currently controllable using CMS, but with an additional receptable will be)
Nil

e. are not able to be retrofitted with CMS
Nil

f. only for those being controlled by CMS currently (answer 4c), please specify the control settings and curfew timings (e.g. dimming to 50% intensity between 11pm and 6am; dimming to 50% intensity with motion-sensed brightening to 75% between 12am and 5am). For question 4f), if control settings are determined by road categories, please provide details on the settings by road type, and the number of street lights per road type.
N/A

5. How many of the future (retrofitted and additional) TA owned LED fixtures (answer 2d and 2f together):

a. will have central management system (CMS) technology?
Nil

b. will have wireless CMS technology?
Nil

c. will be controlled using CMS beyond time-based on/off controls? Nil If any known controls, please specify (as per question 4f).
N/A

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