Registration Information

Registration Rates

Onsite Registration Hours

• Monday, Oct 7, 2024 – 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
• Tuesday, Oct 8, 2024 – 6:30 AM – 6:30 PM
• Wednesday, Oct 9, 2024 – 7:30 AM – 6:00 PM
• Thursday, Oct 10, 2024 – 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM

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Group Registration Discounts

Available only to NHA member organizations who are not exhibiting.
Per-person discounts off the NHA Member rate for the “full conference” or “power producer” registration type are available.

You qualify if:

• Your organization is an NHA member (Click here for the NHA member directory)
• You are registering 5 or more employees at the “NHA Member – Full Conference” or “power producer” registration type

Eligibility Notes:

• Each registrant must be an employee of the company/organization (NOT clients, vendors, contractors, etc.)
• Each registrant must be purchasing a “NHA Member – Full Conference” registration (NOT speaker, exhibitor, or single-day registration types)

Questions about NHA membership? Contact Marla Barnes.

• Group of 5-9: $50 off each registration
• Group of 10-14: $100 off each registration
• Group of 15-19: $150 off each registration
• Group of 20 or more: $200 off each registration

Add-Ons

Cowlitz River Tour:
Monday, October 7 | 7 AM to 6 PM | Registrants are Limited to 50 participants | Price: $100

Tour Highlights
Participants on this all-day “bucket list” tour will get to:

• See and hold live salmon at the Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery and learn about fish passage and fisheries programs on the Cowlitz River.
• Stand on top of the tallest dam in Washington State, Mossyrock Dam – 1 foot taller than the Space Needle in Seattle from bedrock!
• Enjoy a picnic lunch at Mossyrock Park just outside the town of Mossyrock, Washington
• Tour Mossyrock Powerhouse, home to two large hydro generators

Irrigation Meets Small Hydro Tour:
Monday, October 7 | 9 AM to 4 PM | Registrants are Limited to 30 participants | Price: $75

Tour Highlights
Participants will see irrigation canals that have been piped, a 1.8-MW conduit hydro plant (Plant 3 owned by Farmers Irrigation District) powered by a Pelton wheel and Kunming generator, and a beautiful orchard in Oregon’s Hood River Valley, supplied with water from the East Fork Irrigation District.

Bonneville Lock and Dam Tour
Tuesday, October 8 | 7 AM to 12 PM | Registrants are Limited to 50 participants | Price: $50

Tour Highlights
The 3-hour tour of the iconic Bonneville project will include visits to the navigation lock, Powerhouse 1, including the powerhouse floor, and the Bradford Island Visitor Center and fish ladder.

Hydropower System Principles Course, owned and developed by NHA Hydro Academy

Tuesday, October 8 | 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Price: $625 per person | $495 NHA Members

Course Designed for: 

• Educate new hires and accelerate knowledge transfer
• Train employees from other sectors of electric power
• Broaden knowledge of hydropower Industry Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
• Designed for anyone who wishes to learn the principles of hydropower – all are welcome

Experience this all-round hydropower course brought to you by NHA’s Hydro Academy. This professional development training brings together the efforts of more than 50 hydropower subject matter experts (SMEs) who designed and developed the content; stellar faculty deliver content with the learners’ objectives top of mind during this 1-day course. The 8-module course covers important information needed to understand the principles of hydropower.

• Introduction / Overview / Foundation / Water to Wires 
• Production Planning and Water Management 
• Dam Safety 
• Equipment, Engineering, and Technology 
• Asset Management, including Reliability 
• Markets 
• Environment 
• Licensing/Permitting

Participants receive 8 PDHs (professional development hours)

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NHA Future Leaders of Waterpower (FLOW) Happy Hour

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Cost: $15

Networking social event for NHA Future Leaders of Waterpower (FLOW) and Young Professionals. Join us for appetizers and drinks and get to know your colleagues across the industry at an offsite bar.

This ticketed event ($15) is open to all Clean Currents attendees under the age of 40. To add this off-site event to your registration, email us at registration@hydro.org.

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NHA Sunrise Yoga

Updating and/or Adding Items to Your Existing Registration

Please use this link to log in to your existing registration.

You will need to log in using the email address associated with your registration and your Registrant ID or Confirmation Code (both can be found within your confirmation email, but if you cannot find either, please email registration@hydro.org)

Once logged in, you can edit/update your registration, add items to it, and submit payment via credit card.

Professional Development Hours (PDHs)

Earn meaningful certification for professional development—Clean Currents will offer 13.5 professional development hours (PDHs) to attendees. A certificate will be sent to all attendees after the event.

Pay Later Policy

By selecting the “Pay Later” option at checkout during the online registration process, attendees can register now and pay at a later date. However, all “Pay Later” registrations must be paid in full by October 4, 2024, or the registration will be canceled.

Cancellation Policy

Requests for refunds will be honored only if received by the National Hydropower Association in writing to registration@hydro.org on or before September 13, 2024. A $50 processing fee will apply to all canceled registrations. There will be no refunds for requests received after September 13, 2024.  No-shows and onsite registrations are non-refundable.

Substitution Policy

Substitutions are permitted and must be submitted in writing to registration@hydro.org. Please include the original attendee’s name and the substitute’s full contact information.