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CPS Energy / Works For You / Nicer
We don’t know why, but we always end up shooting in San Antonio in summer. Clearly we are, as a group, paying for some serious misdeeds from a past life. We shot basic training for the US Air Force a few years ago in San Antonio at the very peak of summer. We had about as much fun as the recruits did. But without all that helpful yelling from the instructors.
So, when we got the call for a substantial doc-style project to be shot in July, we just knew we’d be in San Antonio again. Then we found out we’d be shooting in a coal-fired power plant, no less. Over the course of a week, we shot in a solar array, on the 16th floor (outside) of the actual structure where the coal feeds the ‘fireball’ to make the steam that turns the turbines. It was hot, on top of hot.
Then, there was the coal conveyor belt… CPS has a fleet of coal trains thatbring coal from Wyoming twice a day every day. They dump all this coal on an enormous 43 acre pile. Then it gets fed onto a conveyor belt, and then into the furnace, or Pit of Hell, as we called it. So, of course, that’s where we decided to shoot.
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CPS Energy / Works For You / Tim
This whole story was a surprise. When we were tech-scouting the powerplant we visited the train maintenance facility. We learned that CPS owns their own coal cars and maintains them. This provides direct savings to the customers of San Antonio. It is a perfect example of how CPS ‘works for you.’
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CPS Energy / Works For You / Steve
CPS decided they needed to have an interview with a line repairman, to show how hard these guys work to keep everybody on line. And so it was that Mike and Andrew found themselves wedged – with a fully-rigged Red Camera and tripod – in a cherry picker , high above the power-lines, interviewing a repairman in another cherry picker. Let’s just say we are lucky to both be relatively svelte of body…it was a little tight up there. Did we mention it was summer? In San Antonio?
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CPS Energy / Works For You / James
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CPS Energy / Works For You / Keith, Joey, Nicer – Long Cut
This is the first in a series of longer, more informal videos that were created for employees of CPS Energy. The purpose was twofold. First it was a chance for people within the company to meet co-workers that they would otherwise never cross paths with. And second it let their voice be heard about the recent public relations struggles CPS had gone through. There was no question they really appreciated finally being able to tell ‘their side of the story.’
