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Happy New Year, everyone!
<div class="">I hope all of you are having a wonderful holiday! I’m very thankful to be working with all of you.</div>
<div class="">One of my New Year’s resolutions is to try to communicate well about meetings. So, here is a start:</div>
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<div class="">Planned meeting times (all times Pacific):</div>
<div class=""><b class="">Fridays at 9 am</b> we will continue with our standard meetings.
<font color="#ff2600" class=""> 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.</font></div>
<div class=""><b class="">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.</div>
<div class=""><b class="">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" class="">https://www.storagealliance.org/longduration</a> </div>
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<div class="">Journal club - I’d like to start a weekly journal club meeting <i class="">
for those who are interested.</i></div>
<div class="">I’m suggesting <b class="">Mondays at 10 am</b> <font color="#ff2600" class="">
Will this work for everyone who is interested?</font></div>
<div class=""><b class="">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" class="">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?</div>
<div class="">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.</div>
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<div class="">The Technology evaluation sub team is scheduled to meet <b class="">
Wednesdays at 8 am</b> (<font color="#ff2600" class="">is there any change to this?</font>)</div>
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<div class="">The SWITCH Modeling group is scheduled to meet <b class="">Thursdays at 11 am</b></div>
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<div class="">I am planning to try doing something like “Office hours or group work time”
<b class="">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 😊. </div>
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<div class="">Wishing you all the the best year ever in 2021!</div>
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<div class="">Sarah</div>
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