Views: 18 Author: Rice Lighting Publish Time: 2025-11-05 Origin: www.ricesolar.com
"Kenya: Solar street lights to drive clean energy push in major city.Plans for the solar street lights project, is set to achieve 98% lighting coverage within the city in the west of Kenya"
Uasin Gishu County is one step closer to transforming Eldoret City into a smart, safe and energy-efficient metropolis with the launch of the Eldoret City Solar-Powered Street Lighting Project.
The project will also feature over 20,000 adaptive LED streetlights integrated with CCTV surveillance cameras for enhanced urban security, as well as smart controls for remote monitoring, adaptive lighting, and predictive maintenance.
--From ESI AFRICA NEWSLETTER
As a solar lighting producer in China, we are pleased to hear that African government strongly supports the local authorities to develop the solar lighting projects, this is not just news which far from us.
Over the past three years, we can tell that the county administration installed over 3000 sets of new street lights in estates, markets, and villages. Also together with the new policy of supporting solar energy projects, we firmly believe that the local lighting companies and construction companies is welcoming a bigger solar lighting market in the following years.
The future solar lighting market may be a mixed bag
As long as the solar lighting demand increases gradually, the local market will definitely be full of different types of products. Good news is that consumers have more options to select, while the challenges come to the lighting distributors and the lighting importers.
When various solar lightings shows up in the market, it means the quality and price are in different levels. The first group of sellers may win the first market and eat the cake successfully, while since times go by, quality issues gradually show up making traders worry. After-sales maintenance happens like a huge mountain, even making a business over.
LED lightings are quite mature in the market, while solar led lighting is quite different to normal led lightings.
Inside solar lighting, there are battery, controller, solar panel as key components to make the solar light working, The battery take charge of powering the lamp and storage the power charged by sun; controller like the brain of the solar lighting system which control the charge and discharge;solar panel like the pump to charge the sun energy to the battery.
So these three parts combine to a smart system which can work by itself, and if one part having quality issue, the system will shut up and the solar light will be done of its life.
So selling solar lighting is not a easy business, unless you only want a one-time business, but RICE SOLAR as a reilable solar lighting manufacturer, we do not accept any non-responsebilty solar lighting export from us,so as a solar lighting factory, RICE SOLAR has some good tips to help solar lighting distributorss or solar lighting project companies to select good quality solar lightings, to make sure the light can work well in a long lifespan.
1. Selecting reliable factories that work with a professional laboratory
*Tested the battery charge cycles
*Tested the solar panel cells
*Tested the charge and discharge before packing
and other test like salt-spray test, and so on...
2. For solar lighting projects, select the housing body made of aluminum alloy.
Normally, there are two manufacturing processes of aluminum:
1. aluminum profile: aluminum profile is thinner
2. aluminum die cast: more rubust and stronger
3. For solar lighting projects, select the lights that use brand new A-type lithium battery.
LiFePO4 battery is better than NCM battery, safer when under high temperature.
Last but not least, We RICE SOLAR factory committed to offer the most reliable solar street lights, solar garden lights to our clients, for projects we offer strong and professional technical consult before and after projects, feel free to have a look at our commercial all in one solar street light, ideal for parking lots, pathways, highways, and public lighting projects.
