An educational documentary about how electricity is generated at Eskom's Kusile power station in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa.
Filmed in October 2022.
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Full interview with power station manager:    • An interview with Eskom's Kusile powe...  

0:00 Introduction
0:52 The Water Treatment Plant
4:07 Fuel Oil
7:15 Coal Stockpiles
10:24 Crushing and Burning the Coal
19:34 Overview of Steam and Turbines
21:04 The Generator Floor
28:05 Cooling the Generator
33:40 Overview of Measuring Generator Voltage and Current
35:42 Generator Busbars
36:24 Stepping up the Generator Voltage
39:32 Why Voltage must be Stepped Up
44:26 The Sound of 400kV
46:43 The Dry Cooling System
47:37 The Sound of Kusile's Dry Cooling System
50:12 Powering the Plant: Unit Transformer
53:23 Byproducts and Pollution
56:25 The Control Room
1:00:30 Managing the Power Plant
1:13:33 Credits

This documentary was made independently and there is no affiliation or payment from any political party or company. We visited Kusile in 2022 on a site visit with engineering students from the University of Johannesburg and I realised that there needs to be an educational video showing the details of how a power station works. Thanks to Eskom for allowing us to film and make this documentary.