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Agenda
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Keynote address | Presenting Sponsor CIBC
Tuesday, May 05 9:05 AM - 9:15 AM
Speakers
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Keynote Address | Canada’s Power Play: The most investable clean electricity build in the G7
Tuesday, May 05 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
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.
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Opening Plenary | The Canada advantage: The $200B Clean electricity opportunity
Tuesday, May 05 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
ModeratorSpeakers
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.
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Clean power equity: What is closing and what is holding back scale
Tuesday, May 05 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
ModeratorSpeakers
Canada's clean electricity equity market is active and maturing. From mid-market platform raises to landmark privatizations, capital is moving, and the deals getting done are revealing what investors actually underwrite, how structures are evolving, and where Canadian assets stand in a competitive global market. This session maps the real deal landscape, drawing on direct transaction experience across the size spectrum: what is closing, what the pipeline looks like, and how developers are sequencing and structuring capital raises. It also surfaces the harder question that practitioners at every level are navigating: why the scale of activity has not yet matched the scale of the opportunity, and what it will take to close that gap.
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Market overview: Mapping Canada’s electricity opportunity
Tuesday, May 05 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
ModeratorSpeakers
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.
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Awarded but not built: The capital stack, the long cycle and what it takes to close Canadian clean power deals
Tuesday, May 05 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
ModeratorSpeakers
Canada has over 24 gigawatts of clean electricity procurement underway, with more to be announced. The contracts are real but the journey from award to financial close routinely stretches three to five years, demanding precise sequencing across a layered stack of capital instruments. This session draws on direct transaction experience to examine how investment tax credits, public capital and project finance are assembled in practice, and what separates the projects that close from the ones that stall. -
Execution now: Procuring and building new power in Ontario and British Columbia
Tuesday, May 05 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
ModeratorSpeakers
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.
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Partnership execution: Making Indigenous partnerships work in practice
Tuesday, May 05 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
ModeratorSpeakers
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. -
System expansion ahead: Building the eastern power systems in Québec and Atlantic Canada
Tuesday, May 05 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
ModeratorSpeakers
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.
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The Eastern Power Corridor: Aligning markets, politics and capital
Tuesday, May 05 4:00 PM - 4:55 PM
ModeratorSpeakers
Canada’s next phase of clean electricity growth will be defined by system scale infrastructure that connects provinces, markets and industries. The Eastern Energy Partnership is more than a transmission concept. It is a nation building opportunity linking offshore wind, interties and large scale industrial demand into a coherent economic strategy.
Unlocking this opportunity requires alignment across governments, system planners, developers and capital providers. Political agreements must align with transmission planning. Technical realities of offshore wind and grid integration must be sequenced with commercial structures that attract long term institutional capital. This conversation explores what it will take to make Canada investable at true system scale, and how major projects move from vision to credible pipeline in the national interest.
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Value protection: Preserving returns after financial close
Tuesday, May 05 4:00 PM - 4:55 PM
ModeratorSpeakers
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.
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Networking reception – CanREA Connects Ontario
Tuesday, May 05 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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