Drax Power Station at 50: Green energy pin-up cooler than Taylor Swift
POP queen Taylor Swift may be the pin up on millions of bedroom walls around the world - but not at the Camblesforth home of Jenny Twentyman.
The 28-year-old mum of two worships a different towering icon.
She has pictures of the cooling towers at Drax Power Station...the poster boy of sustainable green energy.
"Many people have pictures of Taylor Swift on their bedroom wall. I've got pictures of the cooling towers. I really have," beams Jenny, a development engineer, part of the civil engineering team which keeps the site running.
"I'm so proud to be part of Drax. Anybody that knows me knows that I constantly go on about working here. I love the cooling towers. My news feed, on my Facebook, is covered in cooling tower pictures. I absolutely love Drax and everybody says that I bleed turbine blue."
Her Drax devotion speaks volumes about the pride, conviction and commitment of those who work to keep the power on.
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The 28-year-old mum of two worships a different towering icon.
She has pictures of the cooling towers at Drax Power Station...the poster boy of sustainable green energy.
"Many people have pictures of Taylor Swift on their bedroom wall. I've got pictures of the cooling towers. I really have," beams Jenny, a development engineer, part of the civil engineering team which keeps the site running.
"I'm so proud to be part of Drax. Anybody that knows me knows that I constantly go on about working here. I love the cooling towers. My news feed, on my Facebook, is covered in cooling tower pictures. I absolutely love Drax and everybody says that I bleed turbine blue."
Her Drax devotion speaks volumes about the pride, conviction and commitment of those who work to keep the power on.
Full story https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business
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00:00So many people have pictures of Taylor Swift on the bedroom wall, but I've got pictures
00:19of cooling towers. I'm not even lying. I'm very proud to be part of DRAX. Anybody that
00:24knows me knows that I constantly go on about working here. I love the cooling towers. My
00:29news feed on my Facebook is absolutely covered in cooling tower pictures. I absolutely love
00:33DRAX and everybody says that I bleed turbine blue. My job role is to maintain, to carry
00:39out the repairs, to ensure that it can go into the future for another 50 years and do
00:43the job that it's planned to do. DRAX is really important to me and to my family. I live near
00:48the station, so I wake up in the morning and I see DRAX. My children, they go to school
00:52in DRAX Village. They all want to work here when I'm older. So I've been here 50 years
00:56now. We've come a long way from burning coal, so moving from coal to biomass, it's changed.
01:01So we're more than ready to be able to take on what's next and to be able to support the
01:05UK with energy. Yeah, DRAX isn't just a job to me. It's a really big part of my family
01:11and plenty of families that are in the community around here. It really is my life. I love
01:16our cooling towers too. I drive in every day. Immensely proud of what I see. Immensely proud
01:23of seeing the power station from the train on the way down to London. So I can totally
01:27get why you'd have a cooling tower on your wall. It is, for many people here, myself
01:33included, very much a vocation. So as we come into our half century here, we look back with
01:40pride at what's been achieved. We contribute over £358 million to the local economy. We
01:48are producing enough power for 4 million homes from using renewable biomass, converted
01:55over from using local Selby coal. But we also look forward to what our legacy will be, capturing
02:02carbon and putting that underground to lock it away forever in a direct reversal of fossil
02:08fuel use.