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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for sharing this! <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">ldes-technology <ldes-technology-bounces@lists.ucmerced.edu> on behalf of Sarah Kurtz <skurtz@ucmerced.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, September 10, 2021 at 10:29 AM<br>
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<b>Subject: </b>[LDES-technology] Fwd: Financial Concepts.pptx<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Russ has shared a nice summary of lots of financial concepts - See attached. Thank you, Russ!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From: </b><<a href="mailto:russ.jones@ieee.org">russ.jones@ieee.org</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Subject: Financial Concepts.pptx</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Date: </b>September 9, 2021 at 11:50:33 PM PDT<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>To: </b>"Sarah Kurtz" <<a href="mailto:skurtz@ucmerced.edu">skurtz@ucmerced.edu</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Sarah,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thanks for sharing the Tuesday presentation, I watched it and it’s helpful for context.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#0000CC">Russ Jones<span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span></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 class="xapple-converted-space"> </span></span></b> <b><span style="color:#0000CC">Jones
Solar Engineering</span><span class="xapple-converted-space"><span style="color:#002060"> </span></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 class="xapple-converted-space"> </span></span></b> <span style="color:#0000CC">+1-714-206-2556
(m)</span> <span class="xapple-converted-space"> </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 class="xapple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="color:#0000CC">+1-310-469-9045
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