The Advanced Power Alliance’s efforts in Nebraska are led by a trio of veteran lobbyists from American Communications Group, Inc. – Richard Lombardi, Eric Gerrard, and Jennifer Williams.

Richard Lombardi, the Chairman of American Communications Group, Inc., brings four decades of political expertise to national, regional, and state clients seeking successful statutory policy in Nebraska. Rich has long been active in public service work throughout the state, having been appointed by several Nebraska Governors to committees to distribute funds for recycling, alternate energy, trails development, historic preservation, and conservation practices. Following an appointment to the Board of Directors of a major electric utility, Rich and Julie Erickson created American Communications Group, Inc. in 1985.

Over the past three decades, the American Communications Group, Inc. has been involved in every piece of Nebraska renewable energy legislation enacted by the nation’s only Unicameral Legislature. This expertise encompasses and includes statutes that eventually created the Nebraska Energy Office, state solar easements, renewable tax credits, regulatory incentives for renewables, and specific statutes that allow private renewable energy companies to operate in the nation’s only total publicly owned electric power system in the country. Since 2008, American Communications Group Inc. has been retained by the former Wind Coalition and now the Advanced Power Alliance.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he became a political science graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan University and, while there, was elected President of their Student Affairs Senate. Rich furthered his education through specialized training in media, community organization, tax research, and renewable energy at the New School of Social Research in New York City, the Industrial Areas Foundation in Chicago, the George Meany Center in Washington D.C. and the Solar Energy Research Institute in Golden, Colorado.