Public Lighting PPP: LED Retrofit & Telemanagement

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Since March 2023, ENGIE has held a 23-year, ≈R$324M concession to modernize and run Curitiba's roughly 157,000 streetlights: converting them to LED and building a telemanagement layer — an Operational Control Center linked to remote-monitoring equipment on about 30% of main roads — so faults are flagged centrally instead of only reported by residents.

Live 📅 since 2023

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Run byENGIE, via the special-purpose concessionaire Engie Soluções Cidades Inteligentes e Infraestrutura de Curitiba S.A. (ownership in transition to Azevedo & Travassos as of June 2026, deal not yet closed)

Scale🏙️ City-wide

Cost≈R$324M investment (R$347M total contract value) over 23 years

🎓 Lesson

The rollout missed its original ~18-month LED deadline (69% complete by November 2024, retargeted to July 2025), and Paraná's state audit court found enough service shortfalls that the city fined the operator ≈R$2M in March 2025; in June 2026 ENGIE also agreed to sell this concession — together with its Uberlândia and Petrolina counterparts — to Azevedo & Travassos, a deal still pending regulatory and municipal approval.

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Sources

↗ Prefeitura de Curitiba (official, contract page)City hall's PPP bidding/contract page: envelope deadline 21 Sep 2022, auction 28 Sep 2022, Contract No. 25297 executed 1 Mar 2023 with ENGIE Soluções de Iluminação Pública Ltda.

↗ Ministério da Integração e do Desenvolvimento Regional (federal government)Federal ministry coverage confirming the Operational Control Center (CCO), remote-management system for luminaires, real-time luminaire control, and the project's explicit framing as a future smart-city foundation.

↗ RadarPPP (independent PPP-contract database)Award/contract dates, operator SPV name, ≈R$324M investment / R$347M total contract value, 23.33-year term, March 2025 penalty notices (~R$2M) and the Ernst & Young independent fiscal-monitoring contract.

↗ InfraPPP World (trade press)Confirms telemanagement-system rollout on 29.4% of municipal roads, tied to the Operational Control Center, as a defined tender scope item — corroborates the Câmara Municipal figure below.

↗ Câmara Municipal de Curitiba (city council portal)Independent confirmation of the telemanagement scope (~30% of main roads) and the 100%-LED commitment; also records council questioning of the PPP's rationale.

↗ Prefeitura de Curitiba (modernization progress update)11 Nov 2024: 110,000 of ~160,000 points converted (69%), full LED coverage retargeted to July 2025 — the source for the schedule-slip claim in 'lesson'.

↗ Ativo Virtual (financial/infrastructure press)23 Jun 2026: Azevedo & Travassos agreed to acquire ENGIE's Curitiba, Uberlândia and Petrolina lighting/smart-city concession vehicles; deal pending CADE and municipal approval — currency-critical for the ownership claim.

↗ ENGIE Brasil (operator case study — supporting, not independently fetched)Operator's own project page describing CCO staffing (100+ employees, 17 vehicles, 16 teams, ~300 daily calls) and SCG/telemetry technology. WebFetch returned 403 each time; only verified via WebSearch snippet corroboration, so its self-reported figures were NOT used as load-bearing numbers in the entry text.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Public Lighting PPP: LED Retrofit & Telemanagement” — Curitiba, Brazil. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/curitiba-smart-lighting-ppp/ (last verified 2026-08-05). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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