Proven Delivery Models for LED Public Lighting : ESCO Delivery Model in Central and Northwestern India

Makumbe, Pedzisayi ; Weyl, Debbie K. ; Eil, Andrew ; Li, Jie

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: street lights;    public lighting;    energy finance;    procurement;   

RP-ID  :  109579

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The project covers seven cities,encompassing nine urban local bodies: seven municipalcorporations (MCs) and two urban improvement trusts (UITs).The urban local bodies are responsible for infrastructureimprovements in the cities. The cities are spread acrossthree states in central and northwestern India: Rajasthan,Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra. They range in size from260,000 (Alwar) to 2.6 million (Pune), with most in therange of 300,000 to 500,000 inhabitants. Institutionally,municipalities in India are under little regulatoryobligation to improve lighting quality to meet standards.India’s Code of Practice for Lighting, created in 1970 bythe Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) to establish lightingstandards for categories of streets and roads, and has notbeen updated since 1981. Further, as USAID report from 2010notes, ‘since these guidelines are not enforced by anyregulatory authority, it is common for municipalities to beunaware of the standards, and many fail to comply.’Consequently, project upgrades are not driven by regulatorycompliance but by municipalities’ initiative to saveoperating funds on electricity and maintenance, and toimprove street lighting quality.