When I took office as NHA's president last year, I looked at our industry and realized that we were poised to enter a time that could mark either the beginning of hydropower's new century or one of the greatest missed opportunities in our country's energy history.rnHydropower's benefits - clean energy production, job creation, and more - aligned perfectly with our country's top energy, economic, and environmental priorities. Would this become an era of renewable energy development with hydro-power as an engine for powering the country's success, as it was during the Great Depression? Or, would we fail to answer the call and watch precious resources become mired permanently in the inertia of bureaucracy and old ways of thinking?
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