The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

Street Light Retrofits (2014)

The Street Lighting Division of Public works began converting the City's streetlights to more cost efficient and environmentally friendly Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology in the fall of 2010. The LED lights last longer, reduce carbon emissions and energy use by 60 percent, and provide a more…

Dataset

Publisher
Public Works Department
Spatial coverage
all
Fields
45
Keywords
efficiency, energy, environment, hubhacks, legacy portal, public works, street light, streetlights
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/street-light-retrofits-2014

Artifacts

“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.

FormatPreservationSizeDigestSource
CSVreferenced4093580a2dc1c7388a03a9f8ccf7bb6675453e5c3ae4a4f8c25559b83a302fbb01e65b1source

Column dictionary

The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.

ColumnTypeDescription
Streettext
Districttext
CityLampNumbertext
NStarAccttext
ExistingSizeLumenstext
ExistingWattagetext
Typetext
KWH/YRtext
Cost / Yrtext
NewSizetext
NewWattagetext
TYPE1text
KWH /Yrtext
Cost/Yrtext
Savingstext
InstalledDatetext
kWh/Yr# Savingstext
43Wtext
62Wtext
100text
209text
110text
274text
5-Jantext
12-Jantext
19-Jantext
26-Jantext
2-Febtext
9-Febtext
16-Febtext
23-Febtext
2-Martext
9-Martext
16-Martext
23-Martext
30-Martext
6-Aprtext
13-Aprtext
20-Aprtext
27-Aprtext
4-Maytext
SLCB#text
SLCB # Descriptiontext
SL Numbertext
SL # Descriptiontext

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:dataset:street-light-retrofits-2014
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/street-light-retrofits-2014
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/street-light-retrofits-2014.json
Version
1 · last changed 2 September 2026

Provenance

Source
City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
Licence
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Source identifier
street-light-retrofits-2014
Attribution
City of Boston
Rights as stated
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Transform ladder

#OperationDescriptionTool
1fetchretrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpointarchive-ingest 0.1.0
2normalizemapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatimarchive-ingest 0.1.0