The chart below presents how coal is consumed to produce electricity.
Overall, there are seven stages in the process of transforming coal, which was mined from pits, into electricity. This process involves many steps before the electricity reaches the power lines.
In the beginning, coal is mined, and already mined coal is passed through a pulverizer, which emits cleaned resources to a furnace. Consequently, coal that enters the burner starts to blaze, and the heat produced by the furnace impacts tubes located within the furnace. In the subsequent step, tubes that were impacted by the burning coal in the furnace are connected to a cooler and a turbine.
Moreover, due to this process, the turbine begins to spin while the cooler cools the turbine as it is running. The turbine then transmits power, which originates from itself, to the generator. In the next stage, the generator converts energy into electricity and redirects it to a transformer. In the final phase of the process, the transformer diverts electricity from the generator to the power lines.