NHA eLibrary

National Hydropower Association

AI on the hydropower licensing record

Hydropower licensing documents are large and complex, and the insights policymakers and practitioners need have long been buried in unstructured text. NHA eLibrary changes that. Ask direct questions across more than 1,000 FERC-regulated projects and get answers with footnote citations back to the source document — uncover regional trends, compare similar projects, or deep-dive on a single facility, all in natural language.

1,000+

FERC projects

3,200+

Documents

280,000+

Pages indexed

49,000+

License conditions

Beyond the chat window

• Fleetwide, pre-extracted data on how core permitting statutes actually operate: when Section 4(e) and Section 18 conditions move from preliminary to final, where NEPA milestones slip, and how compliance burdens differ by agency and region
• Interactive charts that assemble project timelines, compile mitigation costs and categorize obligations for any facility
• Geospatial tools plus generation and hydrology data to fill in the rest
• Every figure traces back to the page it came from — verify anything consequential

Built to put AI behind evidence-based energy policy. Access is by invitation during the beta — use Request access above, or contact the National Hydropower Association. Built on Google Gemini.