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Benjamin K. Sovacool and Richard Hirsh

Caption: Benjamin K. Sovacool and his advisor Richard Hirsh, professor of history at Virginia Tech, visit the solar panels on top of a campus building. Hirsh directs the multi-disciplinary Consortium on Energy Restructuring at Virginia Tech, which addresses issues ranging from educating consumers and improving business practices to developing technology to make it easier for different forms of distributed energy to connect to the utility grid.

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