Benjamin K. Sovacool and Richard Hirsh (IMAGE) Virginia Tech 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. Credit Virginia Tech Photo Usage Restrictions Images are to be used with the posted news License Licensed content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.