House Bill 475
Revise Renewable Portfolio Standard to include hydropower.
Senate Joint Resolution 41
Supporting the payment of compensation to Montana for losses incurred and benefits realized downstream due to the construction of Libby Dam.
As the latest energy and climate debates continue, Consumer Energy Alliance remains an advocate for distilling the challenges ahead to implement all of the various state and federal renewable energy policy proposals and carbon reduction requirements. We hope communities and policymakers not only work to ensure reliability and economic efficiency, but a cleaner, more diverse energy mix that is able to access large amounts of energy, such as hydropower, without putting downward pressure on the budgets of families and small businesses.
In 2019, Montana was the sixth-largest producer of hydroelectric power in the nation.
Of the ten largest power generating stations in Montana, six are hydroelectric facilities.
In 1895, the state’s first hydroelectric dam would be built out of timber cribs filled with rock at Black Eagle Falls.
Hydroelectric dams currently account for approximately one-third of Montana’s total electric power generation.
House Bill 475
Revise Renewable Portfolio Standard to include hydropower.
Senate Joint Resolution 41
Supporting the payment of compensation to Montana for losses incurred and benefits realized downstream due to the construction of Libby Dam.