Power to the People
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- Episode
- Keeping the Lights On - Ep1
- Broadcast Info
- 2015 (58 mins)
- Description
- We take electricity for granted - never giving a second thought to how it’s made. Now, one of Britain’s controversial Big Six energy companies, SSE, has let the cameras in. Filmed over a year, this is the surprising story of an army of workers battling to keep our power flowing.
It’s a battle that matters to all of us. This winter, we could face blackouts. Once we had a healthy surplus of electricity, but now, as we close down old power stations, the margin between what we generate and what we use is smaller than ever. This episode goes inside one of Britain’s biggest - and oldest - power stations, Ferrybridge C in West Yorkshire, as it struggles to stay switched on.
Ferrybridge once produced almost 5% of the entire nation’s power, but as a coal-fired plant, the future for the power station - and its 180 staff - is now uncertain. - Genre
- Design; Engineering; Science; Technology
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The Open University, "Power to the People". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/221267 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)