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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Just a quick reminder of the webinar tomorrow morning (Friday at 9 am PDT).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Also, flash announcement: The CEC Final Report is now posted at
</span><a href="https://www.energy.ca.gov/publications/2024/evaluating-value-long-duration-energy-storage-california" title="https://www.energy.ca.gov/publications/2024/evaluating-value-long-duration-energy-storage-california"><span style="color:#0078D7">Evaluating
the Value of Long-Duration Energy Storage in California | California Energy Commission</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Congratulations, everyone!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">skurtz@ucmerced.edu<br>
<b>When: </b>9:00 AM - 10:00 AM July 26, 2024 <br>
<b>Subject: </b>LDES webinar from UCSD - Part 2<br>
<b>Location: </b>https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/4364884550<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Rajni Kant Bansal will give a follow up presentation (continuing from his May 31 presentation):<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Title: Impact of Storage Losses on Grid Capacity Expansion Modeling: A case study in the WECC and California region
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Energy storage, whether short-term (SDES) or long-term (LDES), is crucial to decarbonizing the electricity grid. While current capacity planning tools establish a benchmark level for future deployment, they often
use an ideal model that fails to account for losses, which can result in unintended target levels. In this work, we model the impact of storage losses, such as self-discharge loss and capacity degradation, in power systems planning. We use SWITCH WECC, a capacity
expansion model with a geographical resolution of 50 representative load zones corresponding to the 11 states in the Western Interconnect region, for various zero-emissions scenarios. Our analysis shows that capacity expansion modeling that does not account
for storage losses can overestimate the optimal energy capacity deployed by up to 70%.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Rajni Kant Bansal works as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Energy Research at the University of California San Diego. He has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, and an M.S.E in Applied Mathematics and
Statistics from Johns Hopkins University. During his studies at JHU, he also worked alongside the Grid Operations and Planning team at the Electric Power Research Institute. Apart from this, he completed his B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian
Institute of Technology Kanpur and has prior experience as a financial analyst at Credit Suisse Investment Bank.<o:p></o:p></p>
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