--- title: "Wellington City Council: Case Study" description: Until 2014, most of Wellington’s approximately 18,000 street and pedestrian area lights were high intensity discharge (HID) lights. The streets at night-time mirrored the aged assets so Wellington City Council started researching emerging streetlights and related smart city technology. Fast forward six years, Wellington City Council are reaping the benefits from their 18,000 smart streetlights. image: https://info.telensa.com/hubfs/iStock-685889748-wellington-crop-dark.png --- # Wellington City Council: Case Study ## The first city-wide smart streetlight deployment in New Zealand ### You will learn: - Two factors that changed the Council's smart city strategy - How the Council future-proofed their smart city ambitions - How energy consumption, energy spend and carbon emissions have been reduced ![Wellington_case_study-2](https://info.telensa.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Wellington_case_study-2.png?width=790&name=Wellington_case_study-2.png "Wellington_case_study-2") #### Get the case study - - - **Americas Region**Telensa Inc. **Email**[sales@telensa.com](mailto:sales@telensa.com) **HQ and EMEA Region**Telensa Limited Iconix 3 London Road Pampisford Cambridge CB22 3EG UK **Sales & General**+44 (0) 1223 677050 **Support**+44 (0)1799 399200 **Email**[sales@telensa.com](mailto:sales@telensa.com) **Asia Pacific Region**Signify Innovations Australia Pty Ltd **Email**[sales@telensa.com](mailto:sales@telensa.com) **© Telensa 2026** - [Terms of use](https://www.telensa.com/terms-of-use/) - [Privacy Policy](https://www.telensa.com/privacy-policy/) - [Cookie Notice](https://www.telensa.com/cookie-notice/) **[Contact](https://www.telensa.com/contact/)** - [Americas Region](https://www.telensa.com/contact/#offices) - [HQ and EMEA Region](https://www.telensa.com/contact/#offices) - [Asia Pacific Region](https://www.telensa.com/contact/#offices) ![](https://www.telensa.com/wp-content/themes/Telensa/img/footer-logos-v5.png) Cookie Settings