Public Relations For Hydroelectric Power Plants

Writen by Lance Winslow

Hydroelectric power plants often do not get the credit they deserve. Hydroelectric power is some of the cheapest energy around. Hydroelectric power is so cheap that if we only had more water and more dams we could lower our nation's energy costs by 50%. It is important for hydroelectric power companies to explain to the public how they are so vitally important to our nation's power infrastructure.

All too often we hear of complaints from environmentalists who say mean spirited things about hydro-electric power and complain that the intakes of hydroelectric power plants such in fish and they get killed. This is not true in all cases many times the fish will go right through the hydroelectric power plants and come out the other side like nothing happened.

Although, even when environmentalists understand this they still complain about the fish, which are unable to get up river through the system and they do not mention that many hydroelectric power plant dams have built ladders for the salmon to get up river. Hydroelectric power plants need to promote themselves as clean energy and this means they need a robust public relations and community goodwill program in place.

We need to cut the hydroelectric power plants some slack and it would be good if they would promote themselves and alert the public as to how valuable they are to our civilization. Perhaps you will consider all this in 2006.

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