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Nevada Rural Electric Association Highlights Threats to Hydropower and Local Control Amid Surging National Energy Demands

The Nevada Rural Electric Association (NREA), representing consumer-owned public power utilities across Nevada, today released a statement emphasizing its commitment to affordability, reliability, and safety while warning of critical challenges facing the region's energy infrastructure.

Hoover Dam’s power is quietly fading, and rural Nevada communities that built their lives around it are running out of time

Energies Media feature NREA on federal policy volatility affecting hydropower planning.

Rural NV counties especially vulnerable to Hoover Dam hydropower decline

Nevada Current investigation on Hoover Dam capacity losses affecting NREA members.

OPINION: Is the driest state in the U.S. prepared for data centers’ unquenchable thirst?

Nevada Independent column by John L. Smith quoting NREA

OPINION: Candidates aren’t talking about data centers. They’ll regret their silence.

Nevada Independent column citing NREA's cautiously optimistic on data-center development among rural co-ops.

Nevada leaders discuss future of data center construction around the state

News3LV (KSNV) coverage of the March 25 joint interim committee hearing.

Lawmakers in driest state weigh excessive water and energy needs of data centers they court

Nevada Current/This Is Reno coverage of the same March 25 hearing on data centers' water/energy demands.

The data center ‘tsunami’ has flooded Nevada. Are lawmakers too late to regulate?

Review-Journal coverage of the March 25 hearing, noting tech companies asked NREA member Lincoln County Power District No. 1 for power equal to 70x its peak load.

Joint Interim Standing Committee on Natural Resources & Growth and Infrastructure — Data Centers Hearing

NREA presented alongside NV Energy, Data Center Coalition, and others on utility negotiations for large power users.

LCB Background Memo — Data Centers (PDF)

Legislative staff memo citing "slide 4 of the Nevada Rural Electric Association presentation" from the March 25 hearing.

“Future-Focused” (Ruralite magazine, via Raft River Rural Electric Co-op)

Q&A with Lisa Levine on NREA's priorities: data centers, wildfire mitigation, Hoover Dam/hydropower advocacy, and an $8,308,497 grid-resilience grant package that NREA passed through 100% to member utilities.

Cortez Masto, Daines Work to Cut Red Tape, Bolster American Hydroelectric Power Production

Senate press release on the Hydropower Relicensing Transparency Act; notes the bill is endorsed by NREA.

Cortez Masto Pushes for Strategic Grazing to Reduce Wildfire Risk

Senate press release on the Strategic Grazing to Reduce the Risk of Wildfire Act; includes a quote from Lisa Levine endorsing the bill as protection for the power grid.

COMMENTARY: Dam proposal would protect rural Nevada

Op-ed by Lisa Levine in the Las Vegas Review-Journal arguing for the Help Hoover Dam Act, framing Hoover Dam as critical to rural public power utilities across NV, AZ, and CA.

Testimony in Support of Assembly Bill 529 (“Station Power Bill”)

Lisa Levine's written testimony to the Nevada Assembly Committee on Growth and Infrastructure supporting legislation strengthening public power utilities' negotiating position with large out-of-state

Nevada Rural Electric Association Welcomes New Leadership