BERLIN — White Mountain Community College students toured Burgess BioPower during its planned, semi-annual maintenance outage to see real-world applications of concepts learned in the classroom.
The plant’s regularly scheduled outages provide vital operational pauses for important plant maintenance — and in this case, a key opportunity for learning.
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