Monday, March 9, 2026

Clouds part for solar energy’s prospects in West Virginia as WVU and partners build a solar-power test site in Fairmont | WVU Today

Mohammed Mustafa Hussain, a computer science graduate student, runs a power grid simulation at the WVU Engineering Research Building, one of the sites where Anurag Srivastava, professor and chair of the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, will research the integration of solar power into the electrical grid.
(WVU Photo/Brian Persinger)

The launch of a partnership between West Virginia University engineers and the nonprofit and utility sectors could bring the region one step closer to integrating solar-generated power into the electrical grid. 
Anurag Srivastava, professor and chair of the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, will support the construction and analysis of a “solar testbed” at the I-79…

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