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Street Light Control Box, Electric Power Cost & Usage Details

Public Works Department

Updated May 21, 2025

About this dataset

The Street Lighting Division of Public Works maintains 40,000 out of the City's 67,000 electronic streetlights, and oversees the contracting for the rest. It also takes care of 2,800 gas lights and 1,500 fire-alarm lights. This is a legacy dataset containing details on electric power usage and costs from among the City's 1,600 unique control box locations during the period of February to September of 2014.

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Prototype by Datopian · not an official government website · data from data.boston.gov