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<div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space">Russ has shared a nice summary of lots of financial concepts - See attached. Thank you, Russ!<br class="">
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<span class="" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b class="">From: </b></span><span class="" style=""><<a href="mailto:russ.jones@ieee.org" class="">russ.jones@ieee.org</a>><br class="">
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<span class="" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b class="">Date: </b></span><span class="" style="">September 9, 2021 at 11:50:33 PM PDT<br class="">
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<span class="" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b class="">To: </b></span><span class="" style="">"Sarah Kurtz" <<a href="mailto:skurtz@ucmerced.edu" class="">skurtz@ucmerced.edu</a>><br class="">
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<span class="" style="font-size:12pt">Thanks for sharing the Tuesday presentation, I watched it and it’s helpful for context.</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size:12pt">I used these slides to educate some of my young Saudi colleagues about the basic aspects of solar project finance. Most engineers in my experience do not have even a basic understanding of NPV, and therefor also don’t understand
LCOE. I think the discussion of special purpose vehicles is also important to understand for anyone working in energy projects (including this study). Feel free to use any or all of it.</span></div>
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