The provision of essential services is one of the missions that focus public service investments. But their durability is often questioned for many reasons. In order to approach the probable causes of this weakness in public action, the present study was able to observe the equipment of the off-grid public lighting system in the city of Bohicon and to detect the related shortcomings. The shortcomings observed are of a technical, technological, institutional and social nature. Permanent technological and institutional innovation therefore appears to be a source of renewed virtue in the provision of various public services.