Pune's PPP LED Street Lighting & SCADA Network
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Pune wired 80,000 streetlights to a feeder-level SCADA network under a PPP that cost the city nothing upfront and claims 61% energy savings — but the fixtures themselves keep getting stolen off the poles.
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Pune Municipal Corporation signed a 12-year design-build-finance-operate-maintain-transfer PPP in September 2016 to swap roughly 80,000 sodium and other conventional street lights for LEDs, monitored and switched through about 1,900 feeder-level SCADA units and a dedicated control centre, at no upfront cost to the city. The concessionaire's own case study claims energy savings above 61%. The fixtures remain a live target for theft — PMC has separately reported LED lamp thefts worth over ₹15 lakh from city streets — and PMC has since started adding thousands more lights in newly merged villages under the same programme.
📊 Impact
The PPP case study reports over 61% energy savings across roughly 80,000 retrofitted LED fixtures monitored via about 1,900 feeder-based SCADA units.
🎓 Lesson
A zero-cost-to-city PPP retrofit can deliver real energy savings on paper, but it doesn't protect the hardware — over ₹15 lakh of LED fixtures have since been stolen from PMC's own streets.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Pune's PPP LED Street Lighting & SCADA Network” — Pune, India. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/pune-street-lighting-scada/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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