Casablanca Public LED Street-Lighting

The Casablanca Public LED Street-Lighting Project is an urban infrastructure initiative undertaken by the Municipality of Casablanca. The project modernizes the city’s street-lighting network through the installation of energy-efficient LED luminaires, enhancing safety and visibility across major corridors while reducing energy consumption and operational costs.¹ The retrofit of public lighting in Casablanca reflects a broader municipal effort to improve urban services and align infrastructure with sustainability objectives as the city evolves toward a more modern, efficient urban fabric. ²

The vision of the Casablanca LED street-lighting project is to “provide a safer, more energy-efficient urban lighting system.”³ It aims to enhance nighttime safety, urban activity, and visual quality, particularly along high-use areas such as La Corniche, while reducing environmental impacts by lowering energy consumption by approximately 50 percent, cutting greenhouse-gas emissions, and decreasing long-term maintenance costs through durable LED lighting systems.⁴

To achieve the vision, the Casablanca LED street-lighting project includes components that reduce power usage and strengthen the performance and adaptability of Casablanca’s municipal lighting infrastructure:⁵

• LED luminaire installation: Replacement of conventional 400 W street lights with high-efficiency LED fixtures (e.g., AEC ITALO 3 and STYLO), reducing power demand and providing a service life exceeding 100,000 hours.
• Energy management and control: Adjustable lighting levels and customized operating profiles to optimize energy consumption according to time, location, and urban function.
• Urban lighting enhancement: Improved light uniformity, visual comfort, and streetscape quality, particularly along key corridors such as Boulevard de la Corniche.

In terms of sustainability, the transition to LED street lighting is expected to cut electricity consumption by approximately 50 percent, reducing municipal operating costs, lowering carbon dioxide emissions, and decreasing maintenance needs in support of Casablanca’s urban sustainability and climate objectives.⁶

The project is owned and commissioned by the Municipality of Casablanca, with local utility operators managing lighting services, private LED technology providers, such as AEC Illuminazione, supplying luminaires, and municipal urban planning and public works departments coordinating installation and streetscape integration.⁷

The modernization of Casablanca’s street-lighting system is being implemented progressively across the city, with LED fixtures replacing older lamps and control systems integrated to improve energy performance and service reliability along major avenues and residential areas.⁸