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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">I think the journal club is a great idea and am sure I would benefit from it. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#0000cc">Russ Jones </span></b> <span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#dea900">☼</span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#0033cc"> </span></b> <b><span style="color:#0000cc">Jones Solar Engineering</span><span style="color:#002060"> </span></b> <span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#dea900">☼</span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#0033cc"> </span></b> <span style="color:#0000cc">+1-714-206-2556 (m)</span> <span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#dea900">☼</span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#0033cc"> </span></b><span style="color:#0000cc">+1-310-469-9045 (VOIP worldwide)</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> ldes-technology <<a href="mailto:ldes-technology-bounces@lists.ucmerced.edu">ldes-technology-bounces@lists.ucmerced.edu</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sarah Kurtz<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 1, 2021 11:23 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ldes-coremodel@lists.ucmerced.edu">ldes-coremodel@lists.ucmerced.edu</a>; <a href="mailto:ldes-technology@lists.ucmerced.edu">ldes-technology@lists.ucmerced.edu</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [LDES-technology] Happy New Year and spring meeting schedules</p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Happy New Year, everyone! </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">I hope all of you are having a wonderful holiday! I’m very thankful to be working with all of you.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">One of my New Year’s resolutions is to try to communicate well about meetings. So, here is a start:</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Planned meeting times (all times Pacific):</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Fridays at 9 am</b> we will continue with our standard meetings. <span style="color:#ff2600"> If you didn’t receive a meeting invite for Fridays at 9 am, please add it to your calendar and help me find out why you didn’t receive it.</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Jan. 8th</b> we will discuss feedback for E3 about their proposed scenarios and what we would like to do - I will send a separate email about this because it is an important discussion.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Jan. 15th</b> Erin Childs from Strategen will meet with us about Strategen’s report: <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.storagealliance.org%2Flongduration&data=04%7C01%7Cechilds%40strategen.com%7Ce38a52bede9045666b6608d89d7588bb%7C5776570c455d4878b13c39bf8e74aff3%7C0%7C0%7C637432475425137763%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=9h4WhmssYMxBCLigOxPSNbXGNFNWd0FTH7Xw3hQgI78%3D&reserved=0">https://www.storagealliance.org/longduration</a> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Journal club - I’d like to start a weekly journal club meeting <i>for those who are interested.</i></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I’m suggesting <b>Mondays at 10 am</b> <span style="color:#ff2600">Will this work for everyone who is interested?</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Jan. 11</b> Discuss Strategen Report <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.storagealliance.org%2Flongduration&data=04%7C01%7Cechilds%40strategen.com%7Ce38a52bede9045666b6608d89d7588bb%7C5776570c455d4878b13c39bf8e74aff3%7C0%7C0%7C637432475425137763%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=9h4WhmssYMxBCLigOxPSNbXGNFNWd0FTH7Xw3hQgI78%3D&reserved=0">https://www.storagealliance.org/longduration</a> Note that Strategen concludes we need 55 GW of long-duration storage. Dan was surprised by this. Is there anything in the report that we want to quiz Erin Childs about?</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Please be considering what reports/papers you would like to discuss in future weeks. I would love it if each of you is willing to take a turn volunteering to identify an important paper to discuss. We may start with some suggestions from the recent TAC meeting.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">The Technology evaluation sub team is scheduled to meet <b>Wednesdays at 8 am</b> (<span style="color:#ff2600">is there any change to this?</span>)</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">The SWITCH Modeling group is scheduled to meet <b>Thursdays at 11 am</b></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I am planning to try doing something like “Office hours or group work time” <b>Monday through Thursday at 1 pm</b> and maybe Fridays at 4 pm. This would be a time that we can connect informally to check on progress and maybe get help from Pedro if he’s available <span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">😊</span>. </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Wishing you all the the best year ever in 2021!</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Sarah</p></div></div></body></html>