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District Smart Lighting P3 Modernization

Revision 2026-08-26-p1-quality-uplift · effective 2026-08-26

Superseded. A later revision exists: 2026-08-27-source-dating →

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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 6 claims and 5 source dossiers.

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  • add /revisionHistory — Established a permanent, hash-addressed baseline revision.
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Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-dad1b19675ac0ee8 quantitative
DC's Smart Street Lighting Project — billed by officials as the nation's largest urban streetlight P3
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The department's own announcement of the winning bidder makes the claim, and the federal project profile records the deal as the District's first streetlight public-private partnership. The entry attributes the superlative rather than asserting it.
Caveat
An official claim, carried as such. No independent register of urban streetlight partnerships was consulted to test it.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. DDOT (authority)
  2. FHWA Innovative Project Delivery — Project Profile (federal, independent)
Claim 2 clm-5f8cdbdbd1e300f4 quantitative
is converting the city's 75,000+ streetlights to networked LEDs with remote monitoring and 239 Wi-Fi access points
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The federal project profile and the department's streetlights page set out the scope of the conversion, the networked control layer and the Wi-Fi access points included in it.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. FHWA Innovative Project Delivery — Project Profile (federal, independent)
  2. District Department of Transportation (authority)
Claim 3 clm-84fcd8c0acb1829a quantitative
under a $309m, 15-year contract with Plenary Infrastructure DC approved by the Council in February 2022
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The federal project profile records the contract value, the term and the concessionaire; the department's announcement records the selection of that bidder.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. FHWA Innovative Project Delivery — Project Profile (federal, independent)
  2. DDOT (authority)
Claim 4 clm-be414d7c9468e963 quantitative
By 2025, officials reported repairs down 49% and energy costs down 70% on lights already converted
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The May 2025 trade report carries both figures as officials' results for the lights converted so far, with the retrofit still in progress.
Caveat
Officials' own figures, reported in the trade press and measured only on the converted portion of the network.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Planning Magazine, American Planning Association (trade press)
Claim 5 clm-9c7399b1de8026f5 quantitative
with an estimated 38,000 tons of annual greenhouse-gas emissions avoided once the network-wide retrofit is complete
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The same report gives the emissions figure as a projection for the completed network, not a measurement of the current one.
Caveat
A projection for a network that is not yet finished, stated as such.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Planning Magazine, American Planning Association (trade press)
Claim 6 clm-5dc5965aae01a411 quantitative
Repairs down 49% and energy down 70% are reported for lights already converted, mid-rollout, and the emissions saving is an estimate for a network that is not finished
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The trade report attaches both operating figures to the converted stock and the emissions figure to the completed network; the federal profile establishes that the contract runs fifteen years, so the rollout and the reporting period overlap for most of it.
Caveat
The entry's own reading of how the figures are framed, not a criticism any source makes.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Planning Magazine, American Planning Association (trade press)
  2. FHWA Innovative Project Delivery — Project Profile (federal, independent)

Source dossiers and revision state

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

unreviewed Revision 2026-08-26-p1-quality-uplift effective 2026-08-26 · created 2026-08-26

Awaiting operator and domain-expert review; publication of this revision implies neither.

Erratum on this revision's envelope. The snapshot, its hash and its permanent link are untouched.

  • createdAt previously read 2026-08-26T16:21:00Z. The batching script that produced this revision advanced createdAt into the future to satisfy the strictly-increasing order the validator requires per entity. The value never recorded a real event; the corrected value is the moment the revision provably existed in the repository. Corrected to 2026-08-26T14:11:55Z on 2026-08-27; evidence: first appears in commit 5fac751ec9, committed 2026-08-26T14:11:55Z.
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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Plenary Infrastructure DC (DDOT P3)
Actor types
private, city-government
Funding model
ppp
Funding description
~$160M via DC's tax-exempt Revenue Bond Program (Private Activity Bonds + revenue bonds), plus private equity from Plenary Infrastructure DC
Cost
$309M over 15 years
Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
Not recorded
Exit conditions
Not recorded

5 source dossiers

District Department of Transportation (authority) ddot.dc.gov · 1 linked claim

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Stable source ID
src-090ce1f3839c587e
Publisher
Name not classified · ddot.dc.gov
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-26
Dossier created
2026-08-26
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

The department's standing streetlights page. A live portal with no publication date.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Mayor's Office DC (authority) mayor.dc.gov · background

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-4f21e5a9cbc93aaa
Publisher
Name not classified · mayor.dc.gov
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-26
Dossier created
2026-08-26
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

The mayor's announcement of the halfway milestone. No publication date could be read from the page.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Background source; no baseline claim points here
DDOT (authority) ddot.dc.gov · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-450b62cd2efcfaa7
Publisher
Name not classified · ddot.dc.gov
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-26
Dossier created
2026-08-26
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

The department's announcement of the winning bidder for the city's first streetlight public-private partnership. No publication date could be read from the page.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
FHWA Innovative Project Delivery — Project Profile (federal, independent) fhwa.dot.gov · 4 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-00f1aa279c2a079b
Publisher
Name not classified · fhwa.dot.gov
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-26
Dossier created
2026-08-26
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

The federal project profile for the deal, describing its structure and financing. A standing profile with no publication date.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Planning Magazine, American Planning Association (trade press) planning.org · 3 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-216e8aa251f3ab12
Publisher
Name not classified · planning.org
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-26
Dossier created
2026-08-26
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Trade reporting of the programme's mid-rollout results: repair and energy figures for converted lights and the estimated emissions saving.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.