Astronomical clocks, unlike photocells, control street lighting based on time of sunrise and sunset which is calculated based on latitude and longitude of the street. This equipment has a main advantage in respect to photocell which is reducing on-time and off-time errors caused by contamination of the opaque cover of the photocell.
In inspecting one of the pilot projects, accidentally i turned my thermal imaging camera on one of these astronomical clocks (which was installed in the distribution substation) and saw the below image!
This picture reminds me a report that has presented in a loss reduction conference in Madagascar island . In this report, noted that after two years of executing loss reduction projects in an African country , studies show that energy losses increased 1% !!!!!!!
