11 Indonesian Students Study Clean Energy at the Bengkok Bandung Hydroelectric Power Plant

“The first day we visited a hydroelectric power plant in Bandung. "We were able to see firsthand equipment that had previously only been seen in books, including turbines and generators," he said. Victoria said.

According to him, learning in the field provides a different experience because participants can connect the theory at school with the actual working process of the generator.

One of the participants from SMAN 2 Purworejo, Najwa Aisyah Raihanah, admitted that the visit answered her curiosity about how water could be converted into electricity and distributed to people's homes.

“All this time I have wondered how the water from the dam could become electricity. "Finally, many of those questions were answered here because we saw the process firsthand," he said. said Najwa.

Crooked Hydroelectric Power Plant Cleans Up Cikapundung River Trash

Apart from studying generator technology, participants received an explanation regarding environmental management around the Bengkok Hydroelectric Power Plant.

Bengkok Hydroelectric Power Team Leader Hamzah Wildan Muharam said that water from the Cikapundung River must go through a cleaning process before being used to power the generator.

Garbage carried by river flows is filtered and collected, then distributed to waste collection sites around the area.