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- News From NHA
NHA 2025 Board of Directors, Executive Committee and Advisory Members Announced
NHA is excited to announce its 2025 Board of Directors, Executive Committee and Advisory Members. Learn more about the leaders shaping NHA's work HERE.
- Continuing Education
Hydropower System Principles Course Begins Jan. 16 – NHA Working to Make Knowledge Transfer Process Easier
The transfer of critical water power knowledge will help keep the community strong and resilient as the industry faces a wave of retirements.
- Communications & Advocacy
NHA Breaks Down IRS Tech Neutral Tax Credits in Inflation Reduction Act and Explains How Hydro Benefits
In an effort to bring greater visibility to the tech neutral tax credits in the IRA and how hydropower fits in, NHA's Michael Purdie provided commentary on NHA…
- Policy Priority
NHA Provides Insight into What a Republican Trifecta Looks Like for Hydropower in 2025
Hydropower could benefit from policies that align with Republican priorities, such as: grid reliability, energy dominance, and reinvestment in American infrast…
- Advocacy
PODCAST: NHA Discusses the Threat of Losing Hydropower on the U.S. Grid during Volts Podcast
Following the recent release of NHA's "Hydropower At Risk" paper, NHA's Malcolm Woolf & Connor Nelson joined Volts to discuss hydro's role on a reliable grid.
Discover Waterpower
- Hydropower
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America’s first renewable provides clean, carbon-free energy to roughly 30 million homes, and 40 percent of U.S. renewable electricity, all while providing the flexibility needed to integrate increasing amounts of wind and solar onto the grid.
- Pumped Storage
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Pumped storage is the nation’s "water battery". Representing 92 percent of energy storage in America, it helps to balance the flow of power across transmission networks by absorbing excess when electricity demand is low and releasing it when it increases.
- Marine Energy
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Marine Energy - America’s next gen renewable - consists of wave, tidal, ocean current, riverine, and ocean thermal energy conversion/salinity gradients technologies, all capable of providing predictable, consistent and affordable clean electricity.
Hydropower Is Clean, Renewable Energy
For more than a century, hydropower has generated clean, renewable electricity. The history of hydropower is deeply woven within the fabric of communities throughout this nation. Today, in addition to homes and businesses, hydropower provides tech companies and data centers with affordable and reliable energy. Hydropower stands ready to build a more resilient, sustainable economy powered by a carbon free electricity grid.
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Membership Directory
Learn about NHA members ranging from large power generators to service and equipment providers.
NHA Operational Excellence Program
OpEx program is a event reporting system that receives, distributes, archives, and catalogs best practices and lessons learned.
