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Agenda


8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

  1. Registration & Networking Breakfast

    Tuesday, May 05 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
    Summary
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM

  1. Welcome & Opening Remarks Sponsor Remarks

    Tuesday, May 05 9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
    Summary
9:10 AM - 9:30 AM

  1. Keynote Address | Canada’s Power Play: The most investable clean electricity build in the G7

    Tuesday, May 05 9:10 AM - 9:30 AM
    Summary
    This keynote highlights Canada as one of the world’s leading renewable investment markets, anchored in scale of build, supportive policy signals, deployable public capital, Indigenous leadership in economic participation, and a geopolitically resilient supply chain imperative.
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

  1. Opening Plenary | The Canada advantage: The $200B Clean electricity opportunity

    Tuesday, May 05 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
    Summary
    Canada is not simply procuring clean power. It is building an investable system, with layered federal and provincial tools and bankable procurement models representing over $200B over the next decade. This session establishes the “power of Canada today,” and examines the practical adjustments needed to deliver it, including regional dynamics, execution challenges, community equity participation and the development of resilient domestic supply chains.
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

  1. Networking Break

    Tuesday, May 05 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
    Summary
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  1. Investment underwriting: Ingredients of Canadian investment models

    Tuesday, May 05 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    Summary
    Canada’s clean power investment landscape is shaped at the provincial level, requiring investors to underwrite projects across distinct market structures, procurement designs, and regulatory environments. This session focuses on how investors evaluate and price risk within that diversity, and how underwriting standards are applied across different provincial contexts. Panelists examine the core factors that drive underwriting decisions, including the structure of provincial procurement contracts, the role of federal and provincial capital incentives, and Indigenous partnership models that influence risk allocation. The discussion explores how these elements are reflected in investment committee assumptions, financing terms, and return expectations, and what new entrants must understand to underwrite Canadian clean power investments effectively.

  2. Market overview: Mapping Canada’s electricity opportunity

    Tuesday, May 05 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    Summary
    Canada’s electricity markets vary widely by province, with important implications for capital deployment. This discussion delivers a concise comparative overview of Canada’s electricity markets through a provincial lens. Designed for developers, investors and system stakeholders, it highlights procurement pipelines, contracting pathways, transmission and permitting constraints and the market signals most relevant to capital. It establishes a shared understanding of where projects are advancing, where procurement volumes and planning signals are emerging and how timing and constraints differ across jurisdictions, setting the foundation for deeper regional and capital-focused discussions.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

  1. Networking Lunch

    Tuesday, May 05 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    Summary
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  1. Capital structuring: From policy intent to better investment outcomes

    Tuesday, May 05 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    Summary
    This session focuses on the practical design of capital structures in Canada’s clean power market, where policy objectives, procurement contracts, public capital supports and private financing must be aligned at the project level. The discussion examines how these elements are combined in practice to deliver bankable and competitive project outcomes. The panelists explore transaction structuring decisions, including sequencing of procurement, public capital, and private financing, and how these choices influence cost of capital, risk allocation, and investor confidence. Drawing on direct deal experience, the session highlights the execution discipline and structuring judgment required to translate policy intent into durable project economics.

  2. Execution now: Procuring and building new power in Ontario and British Columbia

    Tuesday, May 05 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    Summary
    Ontario and British Columbia are moving large volumes of new electricity supply from procurement to construction. Drawing on perspectives from system operators, procuring authorities, developers, Indigenous partners and investors, the discussion explores how projects move from policy intent through contracting and into construction. It addresses how projects are selected, where system and execution constraints are binding and what differentiates successful outcomes in Canada’s highest-volume procurement environments.
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

  1. Networking Break

    Tuesday, May 05 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
    Summary
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

  1. Partnership execution: Making Indigenous partnerships work in practice

    Tuesday, May 05 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
    Summary
    Indigenous partnerships play a central role in clean power development from coast-to-coast in Canada. This session focuses on how Indigenous partnerships are structured, financed, governed and implemented in projects that reach financial close and move into operation. Drawing on direct project experience, panelists discuss partnership models used across jurisdictions, common implementation challenges and approaches that support effective collaboration. The discussion examines how governance arrangements, capital structures, and risk allocation decisions affect lender confidence, project timelines, and outcomes for Indigenous partners and project sponsors.

  2. System expansion ahead: Building the eastern power systems in Québec and Atlantic Canada

    Tuesday, May 05 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
    Summary
    Eastern Canada is entering a new phase of electricity system expansion, with Québec and Atlantic Canada playing a defining role. Shaped by industrial load growth, electrification, offshore wind development and long-term system planning, these regions represent a central component of Canada’s future power system. Designed for developers and investors looking beyond the next procurement cycle, the discussion explores how timing, provincial planning processes and regional coordination influence where future supply will be required and how early positioning can shape outcomes as systems scale.
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

  1. Networking Break

    Tuesday, May 05 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
    Summary
4:00 PM - 4:55 PM

  1. Building the system backbone of the future: Interties, corridors and major projects

    Tuesday, May 05 4:00 PM - 4:55 PM
    Summary
    The next phase of Canada’s clean electricity build depends on foundational, system-scale infrastructure. The discussion focuses on system scale assets, including interties, transmission corridors, and major electricity projects, that determine where and how future power systems can be developed. Drawing on experience from national and regional system planning and project development, the discussion explores how these backbone investments are being identified, coordinated, and advanced, and why they are increasingly viewed as nation-building infrastructure.

  2. Value protection: Preserving returns after financial close

    Tuesday, May 05 4:00 PM - 4:55 PM
    Summary
    Once financial close is reached, execution becomes the primary driver of investment outcomes. This session addresses execution challenges and decision points that affect outcomes after financial close, when delivery decisions play a critical role in protecting investment value. The conversation will focus on where value is most exposed, the execution risks that lenders and institutional investors watch most closely and the practices that help preserve returns as projects move through construction and into operation. The panelists will examine how risk allocation, insurance and guarantee structures, contracting discipline, and supplier selection influence financing confidence, cost of capital and project performance.
4:55 PM - 5:00 PM

  1. Closing Remarks

    Tuesday, May 05 4:55 PM - 5:00 PM
    Summary
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

  1. Networking reception – CanREA Connects Ontario

    Tuesday, May 05 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
    Summary
    A closing reception bringing together all delegates for informal networking, relationship-building, and deal-making.

Date

Tuesday, May 5th, 2026

Location

The Quay
100 Queens Quay E, 3rd Floor
Toronto, ON M5E 1V3

Room Reservations

Novotel Toronto Centre
45 The Esplanade,
Toronto, ON
M5E 1W2

For room reservations, please call 416-367-8900 or email h0931-re@accor.com. To ensure you receive the special Group rate, please include the group name CanREA or Canadian Renewable Energy Association when making the reservation. All individual reservations must be guaranteed with a credit card.

Group rate:
$319.00 daily, per room, plus tax (based on single/double occupancy).

Group rate is available based on availability until April 15, 2026.

Underground parking is available for a charge of $40 plus HST per day.

Additional Information

Contact
events@renewablesassociation.ca