Basin Electric hosted students from Bismarck State College Jan. 30, who were here to get some real world insight into the energy industry.
The fourth semester power plant technology students learned about two main areas: distributed generation like wind projects and natural gas-fueled peaking plants, and the work that goes into operating them, maintaining them, and getting their electricity onto the transmission grid; and marketing the energy on the grid from all types of generation including coal-based power plants.
Read more at https://basinelectric.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/bismarck-state-college-students-get-look-into-energy-industry-at-basin-electric/