Seed Grant Award, Fairmond Hotel, San Francisco, California, August 4, 2015, sponsored by the Siebel Energy Institute

The Siebel Energy Institute
 has awarded the Seed Grant Award to Gian Paolo Cimellaro, for his proposal named "Improving Reliability and Efficiency of Electrical Distribution Infrastructures" for the development of a hybrid temporal network model to more fully characterize the vulnerability of power networks to cascading failures

The certificate was presented to Gian Paolo Cimellaro on August 4, 2015, when the Siebel Energy Institute celebrated its launch and awarded 24 inaugural research grants in San Francisco, California. With more than 100 in attendance, the audience included winning researchers, deans, and professors from the Institute’s member universities, senior members of the media including CNBC, Forbes, and Bloomberg, energy company executives and industry influencers, including Enel, Pacific Gas & Electric, Entergy, PEPCO, EPRI, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, Hitachi, Capgemini, McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group. The program opened with Tom Siebel, Chairman of the Siebel Energy Institute, discussing The Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation and the various programs it supports. Mark Savoff, COO and EVP of Entergy, shared his predictions on the future of the grid, as the guest industry speaker. The Institute’s Director, Dean Shankar Sastry of UC Berkeley, completed the program by presenting grants to the 24 winning research teams. San Francisco provided a memorable setting, with clear skies and stunning views of the city, bay, and bridges from the 24th floor of the Fairmont Hotel.

Visit the PEER website or the Siebel Energy Institute website to view more details about this grant.