NYSE:BEPC Brookfield Renewable Q3 2023 Earnings Report $464.57 +1.35 (+0.29%) Closing price 04/17/2025 03:59 PM EasternExtended Trading$464.62 +0.05 (+0.01%) As of 04/17/2025 06:14 PM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Polygon.io. Learn more. Earnings HistoryForecast Ameriprise Financial EPS ResultsActual EPS-$0.14Consensus EPS -$0.12Beat/MissMissed by -$0.02One Year Ago EPSN/AAmeriprise Financial Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$1.18 billionExpected Revenue$1.27 billionBeat/MissMissed by -$91.10 millionYoY Revenue GrowthN/AAmeriprise Financial Announcement DetailsQuarterQ3 2023Date11/3/2023TimeN/AConference Call DateFriday, November 3, 2023Conference Call Time8:30AM ETUpcoming EarningsBrookfield Renewable's Q1 2025 earnings is scheduled for Friday, May 2, 2025, with a conference call scheduled at 9:00 AM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Q1 2025 Earnings ReportConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress ReleaseEarnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Brookfield Renewable Q3 2023 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrNovember 3, 2023 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 8 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Brookfield Renewable Partners Third Quarter 2023 Results Conference Call and Webcast. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question and answer Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Conor Teske, Chief Executive Officer. Operator00:00:37Please go ahead. Speaker 100:00:40Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us for our Q3 2023 conference call. Before we begin, we would like to remind you that a copy of our news release, investor supplement and letter to unitholders can be found on our website. We also want to remind you that we may make forward looking statements on this call. These statements are subject to known and unknown risks and future results may differ materially. Speaker 100:01:03For more information, you are encouraged to review our regulatory filings available on SEDAR, EDGAR and on our website. On today's call, we will provide an update on the business and how we are positioned in the current market environment. Jenny Lee, a Vice President in our investment teams in Toronto, will provide an update on our growth activities. And then lastly, Wyatt will conclude the call by discussing our operating results and financial position. Following our remarks, we look forward to taking your questions. Speaker 100:01:38We had another successful quarter utilizing our disciplined approach to growth and execution to outperform our targets and deliver strong operating results. Furthermore, As Jenny will highlight, we recently closed our acquisition of Exelio and Deriva Energy, formerly Duke Energy Renewables, as well as advanced our acquisitions of Westinghouse Electric, which we expect to close shortly, and Origin Energy. With the closing of these acquisitions, we are adding significant incremental FFO and are positioning ourselves to continue to deliver on our decade long track record of 10% plus FFO per unit annual growth. That said, We want to also touch briefly on the market environment and our share price. The renewable sector traded down in the public markets on the back of higher interest rates and a perceived tightening of industry margins. Speaker 100:02:37And even though we are well positioned to benefit in this environment And insulated from the challenges that are seemingly impacting others in the sector, we have not been immune to the lower trading environment. It is important to note that while we are never pleased when our share price is down, we are long term focused investors and between our strong position in the market, Major global themes and the overarching sector tailwinds, the outlook for our business has never been better. As we continue to deliver on our growth targets and execute on our strategic priorities, our share price should respond and better reflect the intrinsic value of the Most importantly, we are not seeing any reduction in the returns we are able to generate. In fact, quite the opposite. We are seeing an abundance of opportunities to invest at or above our target returns. Speaker 100:03:32The combination of accelerating demand for clean power from corporations and fewer players with access to capital is creating a favorable environment for those such as ourselves with capital, capabilities and a pipeline of projects to deliver for our customers. Notably, We are seeing particularly attractive opportunities to acquire businesses with strong development pipelines, but lack the access to capital or scale operating capabilities to build out these projects. This is creating a powerful and virtuous cycle. We are capturing increasing demand through our existing capabilities and pipeline, while at the same time using our access to capital to add leading platforms in core markets around the world, further enhancing our capabilities and positioning us to capture even further demand in the future as we position ourselves as the clean energy and decarbonization partner of choice for leading corporations. Over the past 5 years, the amount of clean energy procured annually by corporations has increased by almost 10 times. Speaker 100:04:42And looking forward, we do not expect this trend to slow down. Access to energy is now a key constraint for a number of these buyers, including leading technology companies to execute on their growth plans in some of their highest margin segments. This strong and growing demand from these customers combined with our ability to provide 20 fourseven clean power solutions from our technologically diversified fleet and our credibility to deliver scale projects globally and on time is translating into signing contracts at prices that appropriately compensate us for higher construction and financing costs. As an example, by leveraging our development pipeline, our existing hydro facilities and our power marketing capabilities, We recently signed an agreement with 1 of the leading global technology companies to provide them with a total of 18 terawatt hours over the next 5 years to serve their growing requirements in the U. S. Speaker 100:05:44We continue to establish ourselves as a key enabler for the large tech companies, providing them the critical power to support their data centers and growing cloud and artificial intelligence activities. We also want to touch on our approach to development. We continue to be focused on opportunities that we can derisk quickly and deliver appropriately risk adjusted returns. So while we are doing more development, we are not compromising on the principles that served us well to this point and are taking our extensive knowledge built over the past decades to enhance our capabilities globally. We do not build on spec and reduce risks in our investments by not taking basis risk, meaning we simultaneously secure power purchase agreements, customer contracts and financing before ever committing significant capital. Speaker 100:06:39We limit construction risk by using a localized approach to and manage our CapEx spend by leveraging our central procurement capabilities. We also look to leverage our commercial teams to source the highest quality offtakes and focus on the most mature and lowest cost renewable power technologies in the highest growth regions to always ensure that our projects will produce the most de risked high quality cash flows. As an example, While there have been recent announcements impacting the outlook for offshore wind in the U. S, largely on the back of its competitive position, cost increases and reliance on subsidies. The development of onshore wind continues to be robust given the attributes of these projects. Speaker 100:07:27There are over 100 gigawatts of onshore capacity expected to come online in the United States by the end of the decade, including almost 9 gigawatts of onshore wind from our development pipeline. We are using this playbook to develop our large global pipeline, which now stands at nearly 150 gigawatts. We expect to deliver 5 gigawatts of new capacity this year and another approximately 15 gigawatts over the next 2 years, contributing approximately $270,000,000 of additional FFO annually. Much of the capital for these projects has already been invested. And like the rest of our business, these projects are expected to deliver attractive economics given our derisked approach to execution. Speaker 100:08:13With that, we will turn the call over to Jenny to speak about our growth activities. Speaker 200:08:20Thank you, Connor, and good morning, everyone. This past quarter, we agreed to invest approximately $2,200,000,000 of equity capital, highlighted by our agreement to acquire Banks Renewables, a leading independent U. K.-based renewable energy development business with approximately 2 60 Megawatts of onshore wind assets. The business also has approximately 800 Megawatts of near term development projects and a further 3,000 megawatt pipeline of earlier stage projects. Banks is a full service end to end platform with strong capabilities across the entire project lifecycle, including origination, development, commercial contracting, Financing and Operations. Speaker 200:09:05The team has been successful developing high quality projects in the U. K, but have generally been limited by access to capital. Under our ownership, we believe we can accelerate organic growth in capital recycling and expand the business via M and A in the fragmented U. K. Market. Speaker 200:09:22The transaction is expected to close before year end. We also agreed to partner with Axis Energy, a leading renewable developer in India to create a new large scale development platform through which we expect to develop approximately 250 megawatts 2,500 megawatts of wind and solar capacity over the next 3 years. AXIS is a well known partner to us through our previous joint venture partnership in which we have already successfully developed almost 2,000 megawatts of capacity over the past 2 years. This quarter, we made good progress closing our previously announced highly accretive M and A transaction. First, we closed the acquisition of the remaining 50% interest in Xelio, our leading global solar developer, bring our total ownership interest to 100%. Speaker 200:10:15We also closed the acquisition of Doreba Energy, formerly Duke Energy Renewables, one of the largest renewable platforms in the U. S. With almost 6,000 megawatts of operating and other construction assets diversified across wind, utility scale solar and storage, with a sizable development pipeline of approximately 6,000 megawatts. With this acquisition, we are adding a scale operating renewable platform, generating strong contracted cash flows with a 13 year weighted average remaining contract life. The acquisition is immediately accretive, generating FFO yield in the mid teens with opportunities to add value by leveraging commercial and operational synergies and executing on the significant optionality to repower the operating wind portfolio over time using our recent experience replying the Shepherd's Flat Wind Farm. Speaker 200:11:11On our acquisition of Westinghouse Electric, We recently received all required regulatory approvals and expect to close the transaction early next week. With this acquisition, we are adding a leading provider of mission critical technology, services and products to the nuclear industry from the business that generates infrastructure like cash flows, servicing approximately half the global nuclear fleet. Approximately 85% of Westinghouse's revenues come from long term contracted or highly recurring customer service provision with nearly 100% customer retention rate. Nuclear power is a reliable zero carbon technology that supports the growth of renewables by providing critical baseload power to our grids and it's essential to a net zero economy in our view. Since our announced acquisition, we have seen a resurgence in the growth of outlook for Nuclear, With several new builds being announced, a number of which were new contracts awarded to Westinghouse, providing opportunities for growth for Westinghouse's Engineering and Design business as well as its core fuel and services business, none of which was underwritten in our acquisition. Speaker 200:12:23Westinghouse is also captioning growth in its core business, winning contracts to service almost all of the operating nuclear plants in Eastern Europe, which have historically been served by Russian providers. With the close of this acquisition, we are adding a business which yields double digit FFO based on highly visible and reliable cash flows. The business also provides significant upside to our underwriting returns, some of which have already materialized. Over time, we expect to leverage our commercial contracting capabilities to allow Westlinkhouse to further grow as our large customers are seeking sources of clean, dispatchable and space load power. This quarter, we also move forward with our acquisition of Origin Energy, receiving authorizations from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in October Ant received a unanimous recommendation from Origin's Board having increased our offer to the top end of their independent experts valuation range, providing a compelling opportunity for Origin's shareholders to realize the value of their investment. Speaker 200:13:29With the shareholder vote scheduled for late November, We expect to close the acquisition in early 2024, adding a large scale strategic platform in Australia. Origin is Australia's largest integrated power generation and energy retailer with an industry leading cost model, driving strong margins and cash flow visibility to fund the large scale renewables build out. With this acquisition, We have the opportunity to accelerate the development of renewable generation capacity to serve the existing retail energy customer base and to help decarbonize the Australian grid at this crucial time in its energy transition. In total, over the coming months, We expect to have closed transactions totaling over $9,000,000,000 or around $1,500,000,000 net to Brookfield Renewable, Deploying Equity Capital Into Immediately Accretive Transactions Adding Approximately $200,000,000 in incremental annual FFO. I will now turn it over to Wyeth to discuss our operating results and financial position. Speaker 300:14:37Thank you, Jenny. As Connor spoke to in his earlier remarks, we continue to build on our strong first half of the year. Operating results reflect our We generated FFO of $253,000,000 or $1.29 per unit year to date, equating to a 7% increase compared to last year and continue to be positioned to deliver our 10% plus FFO per unit growth target for the year. Our business is backed by high quality cash flows, in large part from Our perpetual hydro portfolio, which is becoming increasingly valuable in today's environment, where customers are looking for 20 fourseven Clean Power Solutions. The dispatchable baseload power that our hydros generate provide a unique advantage for us and partnering with buyers of Clean Power. Speaker 300:15:41We are also set to benefit from recontracting these assets over the next several years, which will not only contribute additional FFO in the strong current pricing environment, but also act as a highly accretive funding source for growth as we up finance many of the assets due to their low levels of debt. Our financial position remains strong. We expect to execute just short of $20,000,000,000 of non recourse financing this year, generating over $800,000,000 and up financing proceeds, while maintaining our strong investment grade credit rating. We ended the quarter with $4,400,000,000 of available liquidity, providing significant flexibility to continue executing on our growth and development strategy. We have also been crystallizing and proving out our returns through asset recycling. Speaker 300:16:37In the past 18 months, We have generated $1,400,000,000 in proceeds from our asset recycling program, which on average represents almost 3 times our invested capital. Despite it being a scarcer environment for capital, we continue to see strong demand for appropriately sized De risk assets with long term contracts and fixed rate financing in place. As an example, we recently agreed to the $100,000,000 representing almost 3 times our invested capital. In light of public market conditions and our strong conviction in the intrinsic value of our business and growth trajectory, We have also started to allocate capital to repurchase shares. Starting this quarter, we repurchased almost 1,500,000 units under our normal course issuer bid. Speaker 300:17:42Looking forward, we will continue to allocate capital based on where we are seeing the best risk adjusted returns and remain confident that we will continue to create meaningful value for our investors. In closing, we remain focused on delivering 12% to 15 and operational capabilities to enhance and de risk our business. On behalf of the Board and management, We thank all our unitholders and shareholders for the ongoing support. We are excited about Brookfield Renewables' future and look forward to updating you on our progress throughout the remainder of the year. That concludes our formal remarks for today's call. Speaker 300:18:32Thank you for joining us this morning. And with that, I'll pass it back to our operator for questions. Operator00:18:38Thank you. And our first question will come from Sean Steuart from TD Securities. Your line is open. Speaker 400:19:03Thank you. Good morning, everyone. A couple of questions. Conor, you touched on, I guess, a broadening Growth opportunity set given valuation contraction across the sector. We've seen an accelerating meltdown in public valuations, especially for offshore wind. Speaker 400:19:21You guys have taken a measured approach to that asset class. Do you have any updated thoughts on Prospective growth initiatives in offshore wind, as you potentially take advantage of valuation disconnect there? Speaker 100:19:37Good morning, Sean. Thanks for the question. I think it's important that we be clear here. We quite like offshore. We think it's a mature technology. Speaker 100:19:49It's a large scale technology. It provides a differentiated load pattern that is very important to energy grids in certain markets around the world. And therefore, we would willingly invest in offshore if we saw the right risk adjusted returns. Our lack of exposure to offshore, traditionally is not a result of the technology, but rather the investment profile that Offshore Opportunities has traditionally provided, where you had to invest significant amounts of capital, 100 of 1,000,000, if not 1,000,000,000 of dollars upfront for the right to buy or sorry, the right to build out a project in 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 years When you didn't know the environment you would be building it. You didn't know CapEx costs or financing costs or things like that. Speaker 100:20:40And that is precisely the basis risk that we try to be very, very disciplined about and remove and the investment opportunities we pursue and the execution of our development pipeline. So it was nothing to do with Offshore Technology itself, we simply didn't like the investment profile because it didn't fit with our approach of trying to Remove basis risk. As we look at the opportunity today, we do think there are A number of opportunities where that basis risk is increasingly shrinking. If a project Needed to win approvals 3 or 4 years ago when it is going to get built out next year or the year after that basis risk has shrunk materially. And now with some of the headwinds in the sector, there might be some eager sellers as well. Speaker 100:21:36So I would say We feel comfortable with our disciplined approach to entering the sector and we do think it looks a lot more attractive to us today than it has in the past. Speaker 400:21:50Thanks for that detail. And just following on that, as you think about M and A prospects, Even since the Investor Day in September, valuations have changed quite a bit. Can you speak to Discrepancies between public and private opportunities across the M and A opportunities you're looking at right now? Speaker 100:22:14Certainly. I'll probably put it in 2 buckets. One is there's a continuing trend that I would say has been attractive for a couple of years and remains attractive today. And that is there are A number of high quality, I will say, private medium sized developers in core markets that have pipelines and asset bases, but simply don't have the scale, the access to capital or the operating capabilities to build out those projects and really to And we've been Executing a number of those acquisitions and I think that will continue in private markets going forward. And then in public markets, make no mistake about it. Speaker 100:23:10We're constantly tracking the public markets. And For a couple of years there, it was very difficult to execute in the public markets at our target returns. But given the adjustments in market valuations, there are a number of And therefore, we do think we could be more active on the public side going forward than we have been over the last couple of years. Speaker 400:23:45Okay. That's all I have for now. I'll get back in the queue. Thanks, Connor. Operator00:23:51Thank you. Our next question will come from Robert Hope from Scotiabank. Your line is open. Speaker 500:24:00Good morning, everyone. In the letter and on the call so far, you've spoken very favorably about kind of perspective In the prospective investment environment, whether that's kind of private or public opportunities, you have a number of Acquisitions closing here in the coming months as well. While your liquidity is strong, how do you think about the access to capital moving forward? Is the opportunity set in front of you in excess of your available capital? Or could you see yourselves maybe accelerate some asset sales to Further bolster your liquidity profile. Speaker 100:24:38Certainly. So, I think there's probably 2 things to highlight. As Wyatt mentioned in some of our disclosures, we've had a very active year for financings and in particular up financings. And we've done all of that while maintaining our investment grade credit metrics and our Investment grade approach to asset level non recourse fixed rate financing. And that's really provided us a very meaningful component of the capital needed to fund The growth we've announced in a very accretive manner. Speaker 100:25:20The other thing I would highlight is When you close such large transactions such as Westinghouse and potentially Origin, Those businesses have tremendous access to capital themselves and they come with large Undrawn revolvers that can be used to fund their ongoing growth. And therefore, as our platform grows, so does our access to liquidity and capital going So obviously we're closing a number of transactions this quarter. We're at about 4,500,000,000 of liquidity today. If we closed all the transactions in our pipeline, we'd still be at at least $3,500,000,000 of liquidity rough numbers and that gives us plenty of dry powder to pursue any large and attractive opportunities that come our way. Given the environment, this is something we keep very top of mind. Speaker 100:26:18We want to make sure that we're always well positioned, to pursue growth in environments such as this Speaker 500:26:34The unit and share buybacks, can you maybe walk us through how you're thinking about intrinsic value there? And more specifically, in terms of access to capital, are you seeing Or how do you think about the risk adjusted returns of buying back your own share versus what appear to be very attractive returns in other areas of your business? Speaker 100:26:55Certainly. So we think about it the same way, I would say. We always want to be Disciplined in the use of our liquidity and the use of our investment capital. And with What we would view as kind of the irrational decline in our share prices over the last couple of months, For the first time in a long time, we saw it as a clear opportunity to buy back some of our shares for value. And to be clear, when we're buying back those shares, we're working within the daily volume restrictions of our NCIB and we've been doing that for a number of weeks now and probably will likely continue to do it for a number of weeks going forward. Speaker 100:27:42But in terms of how we think about capital allocation Between the 2, we view our capital as fungible and we equally weight the returns that we can We can make in buying back our own shares versus the returns we can make in investing in growth. For years, That balance has been heavily tilted to growth, but with the recent decline in the sectors, we expect to be doing both going forward. Operator00:28:16Our next question will come from David Quezada from Raymond James. Your line is open. Speaker 600:28:24Thanks. Good morning, everyone. Maybe just starting out with Westinghouse, it sounds like that is shaping up pretty well for closing pretty soon. Just wondering if you could just remind us, maybe longer term, how you see nuclear fitting into your future plans? I know that Westinghouse has that microreactor technology. Speaker 600:28:42I'm just curious, will your ambitions extend beyond Westinghouse or will that be your vehicle We're kind of targeting the nuclear market. Speaker 100:28:51Certainly. So maybe just a fun point of color for everyone. We actually got our last regulatory approval on Westinghouse, I would say within an hour before this call. So we are all good to go and we do But to close this transaction next week. In terms of why we're so Excited about Westinghouse. Speaker 100:29:17I would say 2 things off the top and then I'll get into some of the detail. When we look at the growth drivers of wind and solar, they are very clearly decarbonization, electrification And when you look at what the drivers of nuclear power are, it's the same thing, decarbonization, And then the second thing I would say is we've been tracking nuclear for a long number of years now. And I think we've always had a very favorable view of it because of the front row seat We have to the value of clean dispatchable baseload power that we see through our own existing hydro portfolio. The value of that clean dispatchable energy, clean dispatchable baseload energy is not growing incrementally, it's inflecting higher. And today there's really 2 places where you can get that type of energy supply and that's hydro and nuclear. Speaker 100:30:20And going forward, we will have Meaningful leading positions in both. When it comes to Westinghouse, Westinghouse obviously a full suite of nuclear power generation products. It's probably most well known for its market leading AP1000 Reactor, which is what is typically used in large markets to support countries and major utilities get off Large, I would say, coal or thermal supply stacks. But what's important to recognize about Westinghouse is they also have an AP-three hundred technology, which is a small modular reactor technology. And the important thing about the AP-three hundred is it's the same design, it's the same technology, it's the same Model as the AP1000 simply shrunk down. Speaker 100:31:17And as a result, we don't expect the AP300 to have Many of the first of its kind issues that other SMR technologies will have. And then lastly, Westinghouse has its microreactor technology, eVinci. And this is very good for projects and businesses that are in remote locations and need to get off high carbon, high cost energy like diesel fuel oil. What I would say, what we get really excited about Westinghouse is today it typically supports large utilities and power grids of governments. But with the huge increase in corporate demand that we are seeing around the world and with leading corporates now looking to procure the same amount Of energy as leading countries, we do believe that we will be able to use Westinghouse's products to service the large energy demand of our leading corporate customers. Speaker 100:32:16And the clean dispatchable baseload profile that they can provide matches very well with the build out in renewables that we're already using to service that customer demand. So similar to how our hydro portfolio has really differentiated us in the past, we think adding nuclear to our portfolio We think adding nuclear to our portfolio will continue to really differentiate us in the future. Speaker 600:32:40Awesome. That's great color. Thanks for that Connor. And then maybe just kind of a follow-up to commentary around M and A and I'm thinking about hydro specifically. I'm just wondering if hydro assets seems like historically they've traded hands at higher multiples. Speaker 600:32:54Are you seeing any M and A opportunities shape up in the hydro space where you could look to grow your fleet there? Speaker 100:33:02Certainly. So it's a good question. But what I would There's simply less hydro being built around the world. The hydro fleet around the world is a much more contained Perimeter of assets and therefore there is going to be less deal activity. I would say we monitor it In all of our core markets, we have been buyers of hydro over the last couple of years, most notably in South America and those investments have performed really, really well for us. Speaker 100:33:35But what I would say is we look at acquisitions in hydro no different than we look at acquisitions And every other technology. If we can buy for good value, we'll obviously deploy the capital there. But if we're seeing better risk adjusted returns elsewhere, We'll allocate that capital away. And the other point I would make is we increasingly look at asset sales the same way. If someone is to offer us a value on a hydro asset that far exceeds what we think the value of that asset is in our portfolio, We would consider selling hydro as well. Speaker 100:34:12We look at hydro as a technology. We value it very, very significantly. But we look at it emotionlessly, the similar way we look at all the other renewable asset classes. Speaker 600:34:27Excellent. Thanks for that Connor. I'll turn it over. Operator00:34:31Thank you. Our next question will come from Rupert Merer from National Bank. Your line is open. Speaker 700:34:46Hi, good morning. Connor, on asset recycling, are you still seeing strong appetite in the market to Your recycling program and can you comment on the direction of prices you're seeing and how that might vary by market? Speaker 100:35:02Rupert, it's a really, really good question. And I would say one thing we've seen this year, which is probably appropriate color that we It's important to recognize, what's happening in the market right now, which is There is still a huge influx of capital into the renewable power energy transition decarbonization space. But I would say, The vast majority of that capital is flowing into the segment of the market that is looking for, I would say small to medium sized assets that are very derisked and are operating and contracted. Larger scale platforms that require more operational intensity and more development, that's where we've seen Good opportunities to buy for value, selling well sized assets that are derisked, that's where we're seeing good opportunities to sell for value. And we've really taken that into account in terms of our approach to asset sales. Speaker 100:36:07And therefore, As we look at our the asset sales we've completed recently and the ones in our pipeline going forward, they really focus on, I would say small to medium sized assets that are very derisked and can attract a very low cost of capital and we We continue to see a very, very strong bid for those assets. In general, I would say across almost all our Major markets around the world. Off the top of my head, I can't really think of one now where we aren't seeing Still a robust bid for those well sized derisked contracted assets. Speaker 700:36:50So with that interest in investing in the sector from other investors in the space, how are you seeing the capital Being made available through your private partnerships and your other institutional partners, are they still Writing checks to support deals alongside Brookfield? Speaker 100:37:09Yes, absolutely. Stronger today than ever before. And I think We're seeing that not only through our Brookfield's broader funds business, but also the willingness of large global institutional highly sophisticated investors to on a discretionary basis co invest into some of our larger transactions. And Westinghouse, which we will close next week, is a great example of that. We saw a very significant co investor demand to come alongside of Brookfield Renewable and investing in that transaction, And we feel that's great. Speaker 100:37:50It, 1, really validates our investment thesis. And 2, It also allows us to continue to look to execute on the largest and most attractive opportunities at a scale that very few around the world can match. So we see continue to see very, very robust demand for exposure to this space from large sophisticated institutional investors. Speaker 700:38:19Great. And then just finally, you may not want to comment on this, but the it seems the Origin Energy deal doesn't have Support from all of the shareholders. Just wondering what the options are to get that deal over the line or what your next steps will be If you have some challenges there, any thoughts on Origin? Speaker 100:38:40Certainly. So unfortunately, this is a live Transaction involves being a public company. So we can't comment on it on this Call. Speaker 700:38:51Fair enough. Speaker 100:38:52We did get our ACCC approval. We, this past week, increased our bid on the back of very strong outperformance by between the signing of the transaction earlier this year and the points to date that we're at now. And we got a unanimous support from the Board and have increased our price to the top end or slightly above the range of value provided in a 3rd party fairness opinion. At that point, this is probably all I can say, but we continue to work to execute the transaction and we'll do so in the coming weeks. Operator00:39:38And I am showing no further questions from our phone lines. I'd now like to turn the conference back over to Conor Teske for any closing remarks. Speaker 100:39:47Great. Thank you, operator, and thank you, everyone, for joining the call today. We appreciate your continued interest and support of Brookfield Renewable and we look forward to updating you next quarter on our Q4 and full year results. Have a fantastic day. Operator00:40:05Thank you. This concludes today's conference call. 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There are 8 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Brookfield Renewable Partners Third Quarter 2023 Results Conference Call and Webcast. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question and answer Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Conor Teske, Chief Executive Officer. Operator00:00:37Please go ahead. Speaker 100:00:40Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us for our Q3 2023 conference call. Before we begin, we would like to remind you that a copy of our news release, investor supplement and letter to unitholders can be found on our website. We also want to remind you that we may make forward looking statements on this call. These statements are subject to known and unknown risks and future results may differ materially. Speaker 100:01:03For more information, you are encouraged to review our regulatory filings available on SEDAR, EDGAR and on our website. On today's call, we will provide an update on the business and how we are positioned in the current market environment. Jenny Lee, a Vice President in our investment teams in Toronto, will provide an update on our growth activities. And then lastly, Wyatt will conclude the call by discussing our operating results and financial position. Following our remarks, we look forward to taking your questions. Speaker 100:01:38We had another successful quarter utilizing our disciplined approach to growth and execution to outperform our targets and deliver strong operating results. Furthermore, As Jenny will highlight, we recently closed our acquisition of Exelio and Deriva Energy, formerly Duke Energy Renewables, as well as advanced our acquisitions of Westinghouse Electric, which we expect to close shortly, and Origin Energy. With the closing of these acquisitions, we are adding significant incremental FFO and are positioning ourselves to continue to deliver on our decade long track record of 10% plus FFO per unit annual growth. That said, We want to also touch briefly on the market environment and our share price. The renewable sector traded down in the public markets on the back of higher interest rates and a perceived tightening of industry margins. Speaker 100:02:37And even though we are well positioned to benefit in this environment And insulated from the challenges that are seemingly impacting others in the sector, we have not been immune to the lower trading environment. It is important to note that while we are never pleased when our share price is down, we are long term focused investors and between our strong position in the market, Major global themes and the overarching sector tailwinds, the outlook for our business has never been better. As we continue to deliver on our growth targets and execute on our strategic priorities, our share price should respond and better reflect the intrinsic value of the Most importantly, we are not seeing any reduction in the returns we are able to generate. In fact, quite the opposite. We are seeing an abundance of opportunities to invest at or above our target returns. Speaker 100:03:32The combination of accelerating demand for clean power from corporations and fewer players with access to capital is creating a favorable environment for those such as ourselves with capital, capabilities and a pipeline of projects to deliver for our customers. Notably, We are seeing particularly attractive opportunities to acquire businesses with strong development pipelines, but lack the access to capital or scale operating capabilities to build out these projects. This is creating a powerful and virtuous cycle. We are capturing increasing demand through our existing capabilities and pipeline, while at the same time using our access to capital to add leading platforms in core markets around the world, further enhancing our capabilities and positioning us to capture even further demand in the future as we position ourselves as the clean energy and decarbonization partner of choice for leading corporations. Over the past 5 years, the amount of clean energy procured annually by corporations has increased by almost 10 times. Speaker 100:04:42And looking forward, we do not expect this trend to slow down. Access to energy is now a key constraint for a number of these buyers, including leading technology companies to execute on their growth plans in some of their highest margin segments. This strong and growing demand from these customers combined with our ability to provide 20 fourseven clean power solutions from our technologically diversified fleet and our credibility to deliver scale projects globally and on time is translating into signing contracts at prices that appropriately compensate us for higher construction and financing costs. As an example, by leveraging our development pipeline, our existing hydro facilities and our power marketing capabilities, We recently signed an agreement with 1 of the leading global technology companies to provide them with a total of 18 terawatt hours over the next 5 years to serve their growing requirements in the U. S. Speaker 100:05:44We continue to establish ourselves as a key enabler for the large tech companies, providing them the critical power to support their data centers and growing cloud and artificial intelligence activities. We also want to touch on our approach to development. We continue to be focused on opportunities that we can derisk quickly and deliver appropriately risk adjusted returns. So while we are doing more development, we are not compromising on the principles that served us well to this point and are taking our extensive knowledge built over the past decades to enhance our capabilities globally. We do not build on spec and reduce risks in our investments by not taking basis risk, meaning we simultaneously secure power purchase agreements, customer contracts and financing before ever committing significant capital. Speaker 100:06:39We limit construction risk by using a localized approach to and manage our CapEx spend by leveraging our central procurement capabilities. We also look to leverage our commercial teams to source the highest quality offtakes and focus on the most mature and lowest cost renewable power technologies in the highest growth regions to always ensure that our projects will produce the most de risked high quality cash flows. As an example, While there have been recent announcements impacting the outlook for offshore wind in the U. S, largely on the back of its competitive position, cost increases and reliance on subsidies. The development of onshore wind continues to be robust given the attributes of these projects. Speaker 100:07:27There are over 100 gigawatts of onshore capacity expected to come online in the United States by the end of the decade, including almost 9 gigawatts of onshore wind from our development pipeline. We are using this playbook to develop our large global pipeline, which now stands at nearly 150 gigawatts. We expect to deliver 5 gigawatts of new capacity this year and another approximately 15 gigawatts over the next 2 years, contributing approximately $270,000,000 of additional FFO annually. Much of the capital for these projects has already been invested. And like the rest of our business, these projects are expected to deliver attractive economics given our derisked approach to execution. Speaker 100:08:13With that, we will turn the call over to Jenny to speak about our growth activities. Speaker 200:08:20Thank you, Connor, and good morning, everyone. This past quarter, we agreed to invest approximately $2,200,000,000 of equity capital, highlighted by our agreement to acquire Banks Renewables, a leading independent U. K.-based renewable energy development business with approximately 2 60 Megawatts of onshore wind assets. The business also has approximately 800 Megawatts of near term development projects and a further 3,000 megawatt pipeline of earlier stage projects. Banks is a full service end to end platform with strong capabilities across the entire project lifecycle, including origination, development, commercial contracting, Financing and Operations. Speaker 200:09:05The team has been successful developing high quality projects in the U. K, but have generally been limited by access to capital. Under our ownership, we believe we can accelerate organic growth in capital recycling and expand the business via M and A in the fragmented U. K. Market. Speaker 200:09:22The transaction is expected to close before year end. We also agreed to partner with Axis Energy, a leading renewable developer in India to create a new large scale development platform through which we expect to develop approximately 250 megawatts 2,500 megawatts of wind and solar capacity over the next 3 years. AXIS is a well known partner to us through our previous joint venture partnership in which we have already successfully developed almost 2,000 megawatts of capacity over the past 2 years. This quarter, we made good progress closing our previously announced highly accretive M and A transaction. First, we closed the acquisition of the remaining 50% interest in Xelio, our leading global solar developer, bring our total ownership interest to 100%. Speaker 200:10:15We also closed the acquisition of Doreba Energy, formerly Duke Energy Renewables, one of the largest renewable platforms in the U. S. With almost 6,000 megawatts of operating and other construction assets diversified across wind, utility scale solar and storage, with a sizable development pipeline of approximately 6,000 megawatts. With this acquisition, we are adding a scale operating renewable platform, generating strong contracted cash flows with a 13 year weighted average remaining contract life. The acquisition is immediately accretive, generating FFO yield in the mid teens with opportunities to add value by leveraging commercial and operational synergies and executing on the significant optionality to repower the operating wind portfolio over time using our recent experience replying the Shepherd's Flat Wind Farm. Speaker 200:11:11On our acquisition of Westinghouse Electric, We recently received all required regulatory approvals and expect to close the transaction early next week. With this acquisition, we are adding a leading provider of mission critical technology, services and products to the nuclear industry from the business that generates infrastructure like cash flows, servicing approximately half the global nuclear fleet. Approximately 85% of Westinghouse's revenues come from long term contracted or highly recurring customer service provision with nearly 100% customer retention rate. Nuclear power is a reliable zero carbon technology that supports the growth of renewables by providing critical baseload power to our grids and it's essential to a net zero economy in our view. Since our announced acquisition, we have seen a resurgence in the growth of outlook for Nuclear, With several new builds being announced, a number of which were new contracts awarded to Westinghouse, providing opportunities for growth for Westinghouse's Engineering and Design business as well as its core fuel and services business, none of which was underwritten in our acquisition. Speaker 200:12:23Westinghouse is also captioning growth in its core business, winning contracts to service almost all of the operating nuclear plants in Eastern Europe, which have historically been served by Russian providers. With the close of this acquisition, we are adding a business which yields double digit FFO based on highly visible and reliable cash flows. The business also provides significant upside to our underwriting returns, some of which have already materialized. Over time, we expect to leverage our commercial contracting capabilities to allow Westlinkhouse to further grow as our large customers are seeking sources of clean, dispatchable and space load power. This quarter, we also move forward with our acquisition of Origin Energy, receiving authorizations from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in October Ant received a unanimous recommendation from Origin's Board having increased our offer to the top end of their independent experts valuation range, providing a compelling opportunity for Origin's shareholders to realize the value of their investment. Speaker 200:13:29With the shareholder vote scheduled for late November, We expect to close the acquisition in early 2024, adding a large scale strategic platform in Australia. Origin is Australia's largest integrated power generation and energy retailer with an industry leading cost model, driving strong margins and cash flow visibility to fund the large scale renewables build out. With this acquisition, We have the opportunity to accelerate the development of renewable generation capacity to serve the existing retail energy customer base and to help decarbonize the Australian grid at this crucial time in its energy transition. In total, over the coming months, We expect to have closed transactions totaling over $9,000,000,000 or around $1,500,000,000 net to Brookfield Renewable, Deploying Equity Capital Into Immediately Accretive Transactions Adding Approximately $200,000,000 in incremental annual FFO. I will now turn it over to Wyeth to discuss our operating results and financial position. Speaker 300:14:37Thank you, Jenny. As Connor spoke to in his earlier remarks, we continue to build on our strong first half of the year. Operating results reflect our We generated FFO of $253,000,000 or $1.29 per unit year to date, equating to a 7% increase compared to last year and continue to be positioned to deliver our 10% plus FFO per unit growth target for the year. Our business is backed by high quality cash flows, in large part from Our perpetual hydro portfolio, which is becoming increasingly valuable in today's environment, where customers are looking for 20 fourseven Clean Power Solutions. The dispatchable baseload power that our hydros generate provide a unique advantage for us and partnering with buyers of Clean Power. Speaker 300:15:41We are also set to benefit from recontracting these assets over the next several years, which will not only contribute additional FFO in the strong current pricing environment, but also act as a highly accretive funding source for growth as we up finance many of the assets due to their low levels of debt. Our financial position remains strong. We expect to execute just short of $20,000,000,000 of non recourse financing this year, generating over $800,000,000 and up financing proceeds, while maintaining our strong investment grade credit rating. We ended the quarter with $4,400,000,000 of available liquidity, providing significant flexibility to continue executing on our growth and development strategy. We have also been crystallizing and proving out our returns through asset recycling. Speaker 300:16:37In the past 18 months, We have generated $1,400,000,000 in proceeds from our asset recycling program, which on average represents almost 3 times our invested capital. Despite it being a scarcer environment for capital, we continue to see strong demand for appropriately sized De risk assets with long term contracts and fixed rate financing in place. As an example, we recently agreed to the $100,000,000 representing almost 3 times our invested capital. In light of public market conditions and our strong conviction in the intrinsic value of our business and growth trajectory, We have also started to allocate capital to repurchase shares. Starting this quarter, we repurchased almost 1,500,000 units under our normal course issuer bid. Speaker 300:17:42Looking forward, we will continue to allocate capital based on where we are seeing the best risk adjusted returns and remain confident that we will continue to create meaningful value for our investors. In closing, we remain focused on delivering 12% to 15 and operational capabilities to enhance and de risk our business. On behalf of the Board and management, We thank all our unitholders and shareholders for the ongoing support. We are excited about Brookfield Renewables' future and look forward to updating you on our progress throughout the remainder of the year. That concludes our formal remarks for today's call. Speaker 300:18:32Thank you for joining us this morning. And with that, I'll pass it back to our operator for questions. Operator00:18:38Thank you. And our first question will come from Sean Steuart from TD Securities. Your line is open. Speaker 400:19:03Thank you. Good morning, everyone. A couple of questions. Conor, you touched on, I guess, a broadening Growth opportunity set given valuation contraction across the sector. We've seen an accelerating meltdown in public valuations, especially for offshore wind. Speaker 400:19:21You guys have taken a measured approach to that asset class. Do you have any updated thoughts on Prospective growth initiatives in offshore wind, as you potentially take advantage of valuation disconnect there? Speaker 100:19:37Good morning, Sean. Thanks for the question. I think it's important that we be clear here. We quite like offshore. We think it's a mature technology. Speaker 100:19:49It's a large scale technology. It provides a differentiated load pattern that is very important to energy grids in certain markets around the world. And therefore, we would willingly invest in offshore if we saw the right risk adjusted returns. Our lack of exposure to offshore, traditionally is not a result of the technology, but rather the investment profile that Offshore Opportunities has traditionally provided, where you had to invest significant amounts of capital, 100 of 1,000,000, if not 1,000,000,000 of dollars upfront for the right to buy or sorry, the right to build out a project in 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 years When you didn't know the environment you would be building it. You didn't know CapEx costs or financing costs or things like that. Speaker 100:20:40And that is precisely the basis risk that we try to be very, very disciplined about and remove and the investment opportunities we pursue and the execution of our development pipeline. So it was nothing to do with Offshore Technology itself, we simply didn't like the investment profile because it didn't fit with our approach of trying to Remove basis risk. As we look at the opportunity today, we do think there are A number of opportunities where that basis risk is increasingly shrinking. If a project Needed to win approvals 3 or 4 years ago when it is going to get built out next year or the year after that basis risk has shrunk materially. And now with some of the headwinds in the sector, there might be some eager sellers as well. Speaker 100:21:36So I would say We feel comfortable with our disciplined approach to entering the sector and we do think it looks a lot more attractive to us today than it has in the past. Speaker 400:21:50Thanks for that detail. And just following on that, as you think about M and A prospects, Even since the Investor Day in September, valuations have changed quite a bit. Can you speak to Discrepancies between public and private opportunities across the M and A opportunities you're looking at right now? Speaker 100:22:14Certainly. I'll probably put it in 2 buckets. One is there's a continuing trend that I would say has been attractive for a couple of years and remains attractive today. And that is there are A number of high quality, I will say, private medium sized developers in core markets that have pipelines and asset bases, but simply don't have the scale, the access to capital or the operating capabilities to build out those projects and really to And we've been Executing a number of those acquisitions and I think that will continue in private markets going forward. And then in public markets, make no mistake about it. Speaker 100:23:10We're constantly tracking the public markets. And For a couple of years there, it was very difficult to execute in the public markets at our target returns. But given the adjustments in market valuations, there are a number of And therefore, we do think we could be more active on the public side going forward than we have been over the last couple of years. Speaker 400:23:45Okay. That's all I have for now. I'll get back in the queue. Thanks, Connor. Operator00:23:51Thank you. Our next question will come from Robert Hope from Scotiabank. Your line is open. Speaker 500:24:00Good morning, everyone. In the letter and on the call so far, you've spoken very favorably about kind of perspective In the prospective investment environment, whether that's kind of private or public opportunities, you have a number of Acquisitions closing here in the coming months as well. While your liquidity is strong, how do you think about the access to capital moving forward? Is the opportunity set in front of you in excess of your available capital? Or could you see yourselves maybe accelerate some asset sales to Further bolster your liquidity profile. Speaker 100:24:38Certainly. So, I think there's probably 2 things to highlight. As Wyatt mentioned in some of our disclosures, we've had a very active year for financings and in particular up financings. And we've done all of that while maintaining our investment grade credit metrics and our Investment grade approach to asset level non recourse fixed rate financing. And that's really provided us a very meaningful component of the capital needed to fund The growth we've announced in a very accretive manner. Speaker 100:25:20The other thing I would highlight is When you close such large transactions such as Westinghouse and potentially Origin, Those businesses have tremendous access to capital themselves and they come with large Undrawn revolvers that can be used to fund their ongoing growth. And therefore, as our platform grows, so does our access to liquidity and capital going So obviously we're closing a number of transactions this quarter. We're at about 4,500,000,000 of liquidity today. If we closed all the transactions in our pipeline, we'd still be at at least $3,500,000,000 of liquidity rough numbers and that gives us plenty of dry powder to pursue any large and attractive opportunities that come our way. Given the environment, this is something we keep very top of mind. Speaker 100:26:18We want to make sure that we're always well positioned, to pursue growth in environments such as this Speaker 500:26:34The unit and share buybacks, can you maybe walk us through how you're thinking about intrinsic value there? And more specifically, in terms of access to capital, are you seeing Or how do you think about the risk adjusted returns of buying back your own share versus what appear to be very attractive returns in other areas of your business? Speaker 100:26:55Certainly. So we think about it the same way, I would say. We always want to be Disciplined in the use of our liquidity and the use of our investment capital. And with What we would view as kind of the irrational decline in our share prices over the last couple of months, For the first time in a long time, we saw it as a clear opportunity to buy back some of our shares for value. And to be clear, when we're buying back those shares, we're working within the daily volume restrictions of our NCIB and we've been doing that for a number of weeks now and probably will likely continue to do it for a number of weeks going forward. Speaker 100:27:42But in terms of how we think about capital allocation Between the 2, we view our capital as fungible and we equally weight the returns that we can We can make in buying back our own shares versus the returns we can make in investing in growth. For years, That balance has been heavily tilted to growth, but with the recent decline in the sectors, we expect to be doing both going forward. Operator00:28:16Our next question will come from David Quezada from Raymond James. Your line is open. Speaker 600:28:24Thanks. Good morning, everyone. Maybe just starting out with Westinghouse, it sounds like that is shaping up pretty well for closing pretty soon. Just wondering if you could just remind us, maybe longer term, how you see nuclear fitting into your future plans? I know that Westinghouse has that microreactor technology. Speaker 600:28:42I'm just curious, will your ambitions extend beyond Westinghouse or will that be your vehicle We're kind of targeting the nuclear market. Speaker 100:28:51Certainly. So maybe just a fun point of color for everyone. We actually got our last regulatory approval on Westinghouse, I would say within an hour before this call. So we are all good to go and we do But to close this transaction next week. In terms of why we're so Excited about Westinghouse. Speaker 100:29:17I would say 2 things off the top and then I'll get into some of the detail. When we look at the growth drivers of wind and solar, they are very clearly decarbonization, electrification And when you look at what the drivers of nuclear power are, it's the same thing, decarbonization, And then the second thing I would say is we've been tracking nuclear for a long number of years now. And I think we've always had a very favorable view of it because of the front row seat We have to the value of clean dispatchable baseload power that we see through our own existing hydro portfolio. The value of that clean dispatchable energy, clean dispatchable baseload energy is not growing incrementally, it's inflecting higher. And today there's really 2 places where you can get that type of energy supply and that's hydro and nuclear. Speaker 100:30:20And going forward, we will have Meaningful leading positions in both. When it comes to Westinghouse, Westinghouse obviously a full suite of nuclear power generation products. It's probably most well known for its market leading AP1000 Reactor, which is what is typically used in large markets to support countries and major utilities get off Large, I would say, coal or thermal supply stacks. But what's important to recognize about Westinghouse is they also have an AP-three hundred technology, which is a small modular reactor technology. And the important thing about the AP-three hundred is it's the same design, it's the same technology, it's the same Model as the AP1000 simply shrunk down. Speaker 100:31:17And as a result, we don't expect the AP300 to have Many of the first of its kind issues that other SMR technologies will have. And then lastly, Westinghouse has its microreactor technology, eVinci. And this is very good for projects and businesses that are in remote locations and need to get off high carbon, high cost energy like diesel fuel oil. What I would say, what we get really excited about Westinghouse is today it typically supports large utilities and power grids of governments. But with the huge increase in corporate demand that we are seeing around the world and with leading corporates now looking to procure the same amount Of energy as leading countries, we do believe that we will be able to use Westinghouse's products to service the large energy demand of our leading corporate customers. Speaker 100:32:16And the clean dispatchable baseload profile that they can provide matches very well with the build out in renewables that we're already using to service that customer demand. So similar to how our hydro portfolio has really differentiated us in the past, we think adding nuclear to our portfolio We think adding nuclear to our portfolio will continue to really differentiate us in the future. Speaker 600:32:40Awesome. That's great color. Thanks for that Connor. And then maybe just kind of a follow-up to commentary around M and A and I'm thinking about hydro specifically. I'm just wondering if hydro assets seems like historically they've traded hands at higher multiples. Speaker 600:32:54Are you seeing any M and A opportunities shape up in the hydro space where you could look to grow your fleet there? Speaker 100:33:02Certainly. So it's a good question. But what I would There's simply less hydro being built around the world. The hydro fleet around the world is a much more contained Perimeter of assets and therefore there is going to be less deal activity. I would say we monitor it In all of our core markets, we have been buyers of hydro over the last couple of years, most notably in South America and those investments have performed really, really well for us. Speaker 100:33:35But what I would say is we look at acquisitions in hydro no different than we look at acquisitions And every other technology. If we can buy for good value, we'll obviously deploy the capital there. But if we're seeing better risk adjusted returns elsewhere, We'll allocate that capital away. And the other point I would make is we increasingly look at asset sales the same way. If someone is to offer us a value on a hydro asset that far exceeds what we think the value of that asset is in our portfolio, We would consider selling hydro as well. Speaker 100:34:12We look at hydro as a technology. We value it very, very significantly. But we look at it emotionlessly, the similar way we look at all the other renewable asset classes. Speaker 600:34:27Excellent. Thanks for that Connor. I'll turn it over. Operator00:34:31Thank you. Our next question will come from Rupert Merer from National Bank. Your line is open. Speaker 700:34:46Hi, good morning. Connor, on asset recycling, are you still seeing strong appetite in the market to Your recycling program and can you comment on the direction of prices you're seeing and how that might vary by market? Speaker 100:35:02Rupert, it's a really, really good question. And I would say one thing we've seen this year, which is probably appropriate color that we It's important to recognize, what's happening in the market right now, which is There is still a huge influx of capital into the renewable power energy transition decarbonization space. But I would say, The vast majority of that capital is flowing into the segment of the market that is looking for, I would say small to medium sized assets that are very derisked and are operating and contracted. Larger scale platforms that require more operational intensity and more development, that's where we've seen Good opportunities to buy for value, selling well sized assets that are derisked, that's where we're seeing good opportunities to sell for value. And we've really taken that into account in terms of our approach to asset sales. Speaker 100:36:07And therefore, As we look at our the asset sales we've completed recently and the ones in our pipeline going forward, they really focus on, I would say small to medium sized assets that are very derisked and can attract a very low cost of capital and we We continue to see a very, very strong bid for those assets. In general, I would say across almost all our Major markets around the world. Off the top of my head, I can't really think of one now where we aren't seeing Still a robust bid for those well sized derisked contracted assets. Speaker 700:36:50So with that interest in investing in the sector from other investors in the space, how are you seeing the capital Being made available through your private partnerships and your other institutional partners, are they still Writing checks to support deals alongside Brookfield? Speaker 100:37:09Yes, absolutely. Stronger today than ever before. And I think We're seeing that not only through our Brookfield's broader funds business, but also the willingness of large global institutional highly sophisticated investors to on a discretionary basis co invest into some of our larger transactions. And Westinghouse, which we will close next week, is a great example of that. We saw a very significant co investor demand to come alongside of Brookfield Renewable and investing in that transaction, And we feel that's great. Speaker 100:37:50It, 1, really validates our investment thesis. And 2, It also allows us to continue to look to execute on the largest and most attractive opportunities at a scale that very few around the world can match. So we see continue to see very, very robust demand for exposure to this space from large sophisticated institutional investors. Speaker 700:38:19Great. And then just finally, you may not want to comment on this, but the it seems the Origin Energy deal doesn't have Support from all of the shareholders. Just wondering what the options are to get that deal over the line or what your next steps will be If you have some challenges there, any thoughts on Origin? Speaker 100:38:40Certainly. So unfortunately, this is a live Transaction involves being a public company. So we can't comment on it on this Call. Speaker 700:38:51Fair enough. Speaker 100:38:52We did get our ACCC approval. We, this past week, increased our bid on the back of very strong outperformance by between the signing of the transaction earlier this year and the points to date that we're at now. And we got a unanimous support from the Board and have increased our price to the top end or slightly above the range of value provided in a 3rd party fairness opinion. At that point, this is probably all I can say, but we continue to work to execute the transaction and we'll do so in the coming weeks. Operator00:39:38And I am showing no further questions from our phone lines. I'd now like to turn the conference back over to Conor Teske for any closing remarks. Speaker 100:39:47Great. Thank you, operator, and thank you, everyone, for joining the call today. We appreciate your continued interest and support of Brookfield Renewable and we look forward to updating you next quarter on our Q4 and full year results. Have a fantastic day. Operator00:40:05Thank you. This concludes today's conference call. 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