Wayne State prof turns energy grid into two-way street

Thursday, June 11, 2009 | Source: Model D

Wayne State University is working to reverse the flow of the energy river.

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A Wayne State researcher is working on a way to turn energy consumption into a two-way street.

Caisheng Wang, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and engineering technology, is using a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant to figure out a way to make traditional energy from power plants play nicely with alternative energy generated from homes and businesses.

"The idea is simple," Wang says. "If we have more (energy produced from say solar panels on homes) we just sell it back to the company. Unfortunately, it's more complicated than that."

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