Energy Philanthropy. Tech Billionaire Energy Grants. Where is the funding going?

The tech philathropist:  Thomas Siebel

The institute he founded giving grants: Siebel Energy Institute

The institute’s goals: 

• energy research focused on data
• smart grid technology

The grant recipients:

• making power grids more resilient to cyberattacks and outages
• improving their ability to manage renewables
• optimizing efficiency by better understanding consumption
• improve security of the Internet of things in homes and office buildings, using algorithms to detect abnormal activity in networks of sensor-embedded devices
• improve prediction of wind power production levels over time by combining short-term data with mid-term weather prediction models
• microgrids