Fortis Q2 2025 Earnings Report

Fortis EPS Results

• Actual EPS: $0.55
• Consensus EPS: $0.51
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$0.04
• One Year Ago EPS: $0.67

Fortis Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $2.03 billion
• Expected Revenue: $1.91 billion
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$114.67 million
• YoY Revenue Growth: N/A

Fortis Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q2 2025
• Date: 8/1/2025
• Time: Before Market Opens
• Conference Call Date: Friday, August 1, 2025
• Conference Call Time: 8:30AM ET

Fortis (NYSE:FTS) Inc. operates as an electric and gas utility company in Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean countries. It generates, transmits, and distributes electricity to approximately 447,000 retail customers in southeastern Arizona; and 103,000 retail customers in Arizona's Mohave and Santa Cruz counties with an aggregate capacity of 3,408 megawatts (MW), including 68 MW of solar capacity and 250 MV of wind capacity. The company also sells wholesale electricity to other entities in the western United States; owns gas-fired and hydroelectric generating capacity totaling 65 MW; and distributes natural gas to approximately 1,087,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in British Columbia, Canada. In addition, it owns and operates the electricity distribution system that serves approximately 592,000 customers in southern and central Alberta; owns four hydroelectric generating facilities with a combined capacity of 225 MW; and provides operation, maintenance, and management services to five hydroelectric generating facilities. Further, the company distributes electricity in the island portion of Newfoundland and Labrador with an installed generating capacity of 145 MW; and on Prince Edward Island with a generating capacity of 90 MW. Additionally, it provides integrated electric utility service to approximately 69,000 customers in Ontario; approximately 275,000 customers in Newfoundland and Labrador; approximately 34,000 customers on Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands; and approximately 17,000 customers on certain islands in Turks and Caicos. It also holds long-term contracted generation assets in Belize consisting of 3 hydroelectric generating facilities with a combined capacity of 51 MW; and the Aitken Creek natural gas storage facility. It also owns and operates approximately 90,500 circuit Kilometers (km) of distribution lines; and approximately 51,600 km of natural gas pipelines. Fortis Inc. was founded in 1885 and is headquartered in St. John's, Canada.

Fortis Q2 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: EPS of C$0.76 in Q2 rose C$0.09 year-over-year (YTD C$1.76, up C$0.16) driven by rate-base investments, higher utility earnings and favourable FX revaluations.
• Positive Sentiment: Nearly C$3 billion of capital expenditures in H1 underpins delivery of safe, reliable energy and supports a forecasted 6.5% average annual rate-base growth to C$53 billion by 2029.
• Positive Sentiment: Regulatory wins include TEP’s general rate application filing, Central Hudson’s multiyear settlement, ACC testimony backing a 9.75% ROE for UNS Gas and a first-time BBB+ rating from Fitch.
• Positive Sentiment: TEP secured a 300 MW data center contract (with up to 1,600 MW potential across two sites) that ramps in 2027, boosting retail load growth pending ACC approval and new resource builds.
• Neutral Sentiment: TEP plans to convert 800 MW of coal-fired capacity at Springerville to natural gas by 2030 (coal-free by 2032) and will reassess its 2030/2035 interim greenhouse gas targets in the next IRP.

Presentation

[Operator]

Thank you for standing by. My name is Chuck, and I'll be your conference operator. Welcome to the Fortis, Inc. Second Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Conference Call and Webcast. As a reminder, all participants are in a listen only mode and the conference call is being recorded.

[Operator]

After the presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. I would now like to turn the conference over to Ms. Stephanie Amaimo, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead, Ms. Amaimo.

[Stephanie Amaimo, VP - IR at Fortis]

Thanks, Chuck, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to Fortis' second quarter twenty twenty five results conference call. I'm joined by David Hutchins, President and CEO Jocelyn Perry, Executive VP and CFO other members of the senior management team as well as CEOs from certain subsidiaries. Before we begin today's call, I want to remind you that the discussion will include forward looking information, which is subject to the cautionary statement contained in the supporting slideshow. Actual results can differ materially from the forecast projections included in the forward looking information presented today.

[Stephanie Amaimo, VP - IR at Fortis]

Non GAAP financial measures referenced in our prepared remarks are reconciled to the related U. S. GAAP financial measures in our second quarter twenty twenty five MD and A. Also, unless otherwise specified, all financial information referenced is in Canadian dollars. With that, I will turn the call over to David.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

Thank you, and good morning, everyone. Today, we are pleased to report another great quarter. With capital expenditures of almost $3,000,000,000 during the first half of the year, we are executing on our core objective of delivering safe and reliable energy to our customers. Financially, we delivered second quarter earnings per share of $0.76 a $09 increase over the same period last year. During the quarter, we also made progress on the regulatory front.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

Notably, Tucson Electric Power filed its general rate application and Central Hudson reached a multiyear rate settlement agreement on its general rate application. Jocelyn will speak to these regulatory developments in more detail shortly. In Arizona, TEP's retail load growth opportunity advanced with an important milestone reach for a planned data center development. And today, we released our 2025 sustainability update report highlighting our consistent progress to deliver cleaner energy to our customers. Through 2024, we have achieved a 34% reduction in Scope one greenhouse gas emissions when compared to 2019 levels.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

In July, the first phase of the Roadrunner reserve battery storage project was placed in service at TEP. The 200 megawatt energy storage system will facilitate the integration of renewable energy onto the electric grid with the capability to store 800 megawatt hours of energy. This project was part of the $2,900,000,000 that we invested in the first half of the year. Given this progress, both our annual and five year capital plans are on track. We are well positioned to deliver on our growth strategy with rate base expected to increase by approximately $14,000,000,000 to $53,000,000,000 in 2029.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

This supports average annual rate base growth of 6.5%. In Arizona, TEP announced that it plans to convert approximately 800 megawatts of coal fired generation at a Springerville generating station to natural gas by 02/1930. This will allow us to be coal free by our 2032 target. The conversion supports customer affordability, local communities and reliability as well as our transition to cleaner energy. This along with many other factors will impact our resource planning at our Arizona utilities.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

As a result, we will reassess our 2030 and 2035 interim greenhouse gas targets and share the results once complete. We will provide the project details with the release of our 2026 to 2030 capital plan later this year. New retail load growth opportunities in Arizona continue to advance. TEP just reached an agreement with a data center customer to serve a demand of approximately 300 megawatts that starts to ramp up in 2027 and will use existing and planned capacity. This agreement was structured to benefit existing customers, maintain reliability and ensure the power is supplied consistent with the 2023 integrated resource plan, including solar and storage projects currently in development.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

This agreement is subject to ACC approval as well as other contractual contingencies. Further negotiations are ongoing for additional capacity to support a full build out at that initial site of 600 megawatts in total. The project's developer also shared that additional capacity may be required at a second site in the range of 500 to 700 megawatts. If negotiations are finalized for these subsequent phases, new generation and transmission investments would be required. Beyond these opportunities in Arizona, our utilities continue to pursue various opportunities to support load growth, improve grid resilience and facilitate the interconnection of cleaner energy.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

Work is underway at ITC to prepare to bid on projects within the MISO LRTP Tranche 2.1 portfolio subject to a competitive bidding process. These projects, if awarded to ITC, would be incremental to ITC's estimate of $3,700,000,000 to $4,200,000,000 of capital expenditures for the Tranche 2.1 projects. With a long track record of increasing dividends in our sustainable growth runway, we remain committed to our annual dividend growth guidance of 4% to 6% through 2029. Now I will turn the call over to Jocelyn for an update on our second quarter financial results.

[Jocelyn Perry, EVP & CFO at Fortis]

Thank you, David and good morning everyone. For the quarter, we reported net earnings of $384,000,000 or $0.76 per common share, dollars 0.9 higher than the 2024. Through year to date June, EPS was $1.76 reflecting a $0.16 increase over the same period last year. EPS growth was mainly driven by rate based investments across our utilities and higher earnings at Central Hudson and Fortis BC, which I'll discuss on the next slide. On slide 11, you'll see the highlighted EPS drivers for the quarter by segment.

[Jocelyn Perry, EVP & CFO at Fortis]

Within our U. S. Electric and gas utilities Central Hudson contributed a $04 increase in EPS. This increase largely reflects rate based growth as well as the rebasing of cost and a higher allowed ROE effective 07/01/2024. The impact of a contribution to a customer benefit fund in the 2024 and the timing of operating costs also supported the increase quarter over quarter.

[Jocelyn Perry, EVP & CFO at Fortis]

At UNS Energy, the EPS contribution was unchanged from the second quarter of last year and the increase in transmission revenue was offset by regulatory lag. For our Western Canadian Utilities, EPS increased $0.3 largely driven by rate base growth including earnings associated with the Eagle Mountain Pipeline project. At Fortis, Alberta, timing of operating costs, the expiration of a PVR efficiency mechanism and a lower allowed ROE of 8.97% effective 01/01/2025 tempered growth quarter over quarter. At our other electric segment EPS increased $02 due to rate base growth, higher electricity sales as well as the timing of quarterly earnings at Newfoundland Power related to regulatory approvals. And while not shown on the slide financial results at ITC were largely consistent with the 2024 as rate base growth was offset by higher stock based compensation and higher holding company finance costs.

[Jocelyn Perry, EVP & CFO at Fortis]

Foreign exchange gains associated with the revaluation of U. S. Dollar denominated liabilities contributed a $02 EPS increase for the quarter. For the Corporate and Other segment, the decrease reflects the timing of income tax recoveries and higher finance costs partially offset by mark to market gains on foreign exchange contracts. And finally higher weighted average shares lowered EPS by $01 driven by shares issued under our dividend reinvestment plan.

[Jocelyn Perry, EVP & CFO at Fortis]

While most of the factors discussed for the quarter are the same for the year to date period, lower margin and wholesale sales due to market conditions tempered earnings at UNS on a year to date basis. All in all, a very strong 2025. Through June, we raised over $1,000,000,000 of debt to repay borrowings and to fund our capital program. As we discussed last quarter, our five year capital funding plan remains intact with a healthy participation from our dividend reinvestment plan. Our $500,000,000 ATM program has not been utilized to date and remains available for funding flexibility as required.

[Jocelyn Perry, EVP & CFO at Fortis]

During the quarter, Fitch assigned Fortis a first time BBB plus credit rating. This new rating underscores Fortis' strong overall credit profile and will support cost effective capital market funding options. With S and P, we remain focused on highlighting our key initiatives around addressing physical and climate risk. In July, we implemented a public safety power shutoff or PSPS plan at FortisBC for high risk areas within its service territory. This builds on the PSPS plans already implemented earlier this year in Alberta and Arizona as well as the wildfire legislation passed in Arizona.

[Jocelyn Perry, EVP & CFO at Fortis]

Turning now to recent regulatory activity. In June TEP filed its general rate application with the ACC seeking new retail rates effective 09/01/2026. The application includes rate base of US4.3 billion dollars representing an increase of approximately US750 million dollars since the last rate case. The increase is largely driven by investments in grid upgrades and new energy resources to maintain reliability, improve resilience and serve expanding energy needs. The application proposes to phase out or eliminate certain adjuster mechanisms and request an annual formula rate adjustment consistent with the ACC's formula rate policy statement issued in 2024.

[Jocelyn Perry, EVP & CFO at Fortis]

If approved by the ACC, the formula rate plan is expected to improve rate stability for our customers, reduce regulatory and administrative burden, as well as simplify the number of adjuster mechanisms. The formula is also expected to allow for timely recovery of prudent investments and costs within plus or minus 20 basis points of TEP's allowed return. And while not shown on the slide, UNS Gas' rate case continues to progress. In July, the ACC staff filed testimony recommending an allowed ROE of 9.75% and use of an annual formula rate adjustment with an ROE dead band within plus or minus 50 basis points. Lastly, in June, Central Hudson filed a constructive joint proposal with the New York Public Service Commission in relation to its general rate application.

[Jocelyn Perry, EVP & CFO at Fortis]

The joint proposal provides for a three year rate plan with retroactive application to 07/01/2025 and allowed ROE of 9.5% and a common equity ratio of 48%. An order is expected in the 2025. And with that, I'll now turn the call back to David.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

Thank you, Jocelyn. In conclusion, strong results for the first half of the year, progress on the regulatory front and advancements of our growth opportunities beyond the plan positions us nicely for the remainder of 2025 and beyond. As we finalize our next five year capital plan to released later this year, we remain focused on continuing to deliver reliable and affordable service to our customers and compelling long term returns to our shareholders. That concludes my remarks. I will now turn the call back over to Stephanie.

[Stephanie Amaimo, VP - IR at Fortis]

Thank you, David. This concludes the presentation. At this time, I'd like to open the call to address questions from the investment community.

[Operator]

Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. And our first question will come from Rob Hope with Scotiabank. Please go ahead.

[Robert Hope, MD - Equity Research at Scotiabank]

Good morning, everyone. Arizona Regarding data center opportunity, when we look at the incremental 300 megawatts at the first site and the 500 megawatts to 700 megawatts at the other site, How quickly could you develop generation to support these assets? And is this a key gating factor at this point?

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

Yes. That's a great question, Rob. I've got Susan sitting here next to me to provide a little color. But as you know that first 300 megawatts is using existing and planned capacity. So that's always great to be able to serve them as quick as we can.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

And hopefully they're on the same timeline as we have disclosed on the 2027 time period. So we have that first 300 sort of under our belt to get them situated there. And then Susan, if you want to provide a little color on what we're thinking timeline wise for adding the generation and transmission interconnections we need for the next 300 at that initial site? Sure.

[Susan Gray, President, CEO - UNS Energy at Fortis]

Good morning, Rob. Thanks for the question. So as Dave said, the first 300 megawatts are capacity that we're already building and then the second 300 will be will go through our all source RFP process. We also announced that we're looking at a green tariff with Beale and so it will depend on what kind of generation we move forward with, but goal is to be in service with that second 300 megawatts in that 2030 to 2031 timeframe.

[Robert Hope, MD - Equity Research at Scotiabank]

All right. That's great. And then I guess more broadly, when you take a look at your entire system and relative to the existing capital plan, would it be fair to assume that we're seeing the greatest upside potential in Arizona and ITC? And then as we take a look at kind of the '26 plan later this year, are there other key areas we should be looking at where we're seeing probably some outperformance?

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

Yes. I think you hit the nail right on the head there. We do see some and you'll see that in sort of our beyond the plan list. There's a lot at ITC, quite a bit at Arizona as well. But we continue to look across the entire footprint.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

We've got some additional opportunities in BC related to LNG, etcetera. So and then across the rest of our footprint, we're looking at opportunities as well. So those are the two big ones, but we've got, I think, irons in the fire across the entire portfolio.

[Robert Hope, MD - Equity Research at Scotiabank]

Thank you.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

Thanks, Rob.

[Operator]

The next question will come from Maurice Choi with RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

[Maurice Choy, Director - Canadian Energy Infrastructure at RBC Capital Markets]

Thanks and good morning, everyone. Just wanted to touch on the Springerville position. In your slides, you mentioned that it may take Fortis a longer time to achieve its interim GHG targets. Alongside the conversion of Springerville, you're not expecting a material impact to your five year plan. From these statements, is it fair to assume that the cost of conversion, which I assume has elevated over the past few months, roughly matches some form of renewables plus storage in your current IRP?

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

Yes. There's a bunch of puts and takes that are going to be going on here, that's kind of why we're getting ready to do our next integrated resource plan in Arizona next year. But in our five year capital plan, we'll lay out kind of all those puts and takes that we have in the capital plan. Obviously, this is a great affordability story for our customers to be able to use existing steel in the ground. Also, that's steel in the ground that's already there, so you don't have to get in line to buy it from somebody else.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

And also has the transmission assets to bring it in, you don't need additional interconnections. Of course, probably one of the best benefits that we see around that is that overall affordability to our customers and just having those additional jobs in a community that's been so important to TEP over these several decades.

[Maurice Choy, Director - Canadian Energy Infrastructure at RBC Capital Markets]

Maybe as a quick follow-up to that, is there any potential for Four Corners to also be converted to gas just as Springerville is going to?

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

Yes, that's not don't think we've looked at that. But there's always, I guess, potentials. This is a time, I think, where a lot of folks are looking at repowering existing coal plants. And the reason that we were able to do this at Springerville is we had one of our partners, both was a partner in Springerville, but also has a coal generating station down the road from Springerville, Coronado, that Salt River project is being able to partner with someone to make it economic to build a gas pipeline that gets down there. But once it gets down there, hopefully other folks are using it as well.

[Maurice Choy, Director - Canadian Energy Infrastructure at RBC Capital Markets]

Understood. And if I could just finish off with a quick question on my favorite province in Canada, is BC. Wonder if I could have your latest thoughts on the landscape and outlook for gas infrastructure in the province, particularly given the push for energy infrastructure in the country and seemingly an alignment on gas amongst federal, provincial and indigenous theaters and what this all means for FortisBC?

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

Perfect. So I'll turn that over to Roger. But before I do just for full disclosure, Maurice, we are actually the teams here in Vancouver. So we now recognize how early it is for you to get up for these calls. Go ahead, Roger.

[Roger Dall’Antonia, President & CEO at FortisBC]

Good morning, Maurice. Thanks for the question. I would say much like Canada, BC is a bit of a pivot where they're embracing gas in particular the LNG opportunity. As you know, we're pursuing expansion of our LNG bunkering opportunity and we have our LNG storage tank regulatory process ongoing.

[Roger Dall’Antonia, President & CEO at FortisBC]

So directionally we see that as positive. As far as gas connections and our domestic infrastructure, CleanBC, which is the signature policy that is dictating issues like client standards, building code standards, which is the policy that is municipalities are using to constrain new gas connections in new buildings. That's in the midst of a review and that will come out later this year. So I think that will be the first key signpost to understand how the focus on export of LNG translates into a domestic gas agenda. So more to come on that.

[Maurice Choy, Director - Canadian Energy Infrastructure at RBC Capital Markets]

Great. Thank you very much everyone.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

Thanks, Maurice.

[Operator]

The next question will come from Ben Pham with BMO. Please go ahead.

[Ben Pham, Managing Director at BMO Capital Markets]

Hi, thanks. Good morning. Maybe going back to the Arizona data center update and maybe more broadly on the industry overall. This additional second site that you flagged, did this materialize with you potentially just during the last couple of months? Or is it always in the cards we had discussions?

[Ben Pham, Managing Director at BMO Capital Markets]

And then maybe on a broader level, can you comment your pace of discussions with the data center companies? Have their power needs expanded recently? Has it gone to maybe more jurisdictions than you had anticipated? And how do you think about the pace of announcements going forward?

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

Yes, sure. I'll turn that over to Susan to answer.

[Susan Gray, President, CEO - UNS Energy at Fortis]

Good morning, Ben. Yes, so the data center that we've been reporting on is we were just lumping it all into one total number for capacity and now there's as we bring forth more detail on the project, we're just representing that it will be broken into separate sites. So first building out the first 300 that we signed the contract for in July and then up to 600 megawatts at that first site and then the second site is another 500 to 700 megawatts. So it's all the same project that we've been talking about for a while.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

And what was the second half of your question there, Ben?

[Ben Pham, Managing Director at BMO Capital Markets]

Maybe extend it to a broader thought process and the pace of discussions, the customer needs, have they changed materially over the last three months?

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

Yes. We do have a long queue of projects in Arizona that are behind this initial project. But when we only have so much capacity, you sort of got to get it to the first folks in line. So that sort of, I would say, puts the rest of the negotiations on ice until you can figure out how you can develop things, additional resources after the first one takes this 300 megawatts. But to Susan's point, I mean, there's a lot of details and a lot of conversations that we have with folks in the queue and particularly the one here at the top of the queue.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

It's just that we're basically allowed now because it's getting public information on how those different megawatts are broken out by sites, etcetera. Prior to that, of course, and we still are under an NDA for any details that they're not allowing us to release or that they haven't released. So it's just filling in the gaps as we get along on the road a little bit further, but also as they're finalizing their plans as well.

[Ben Pham, Managing Director at BMO Capital Markets]

Okay. That's great. And my second one on the O BBB legislation, now that you had a bit more visibility on how things are shaking out, can you comment impact on Fortis? I'm thinking more renewables and rate base ITC that impact and then any else that you may have found in the legislation?

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

Yes. So overall, there was there's not a lot of impact from one big beautiful bill act that was passed. Corporate tax obviously didn't change. Obviously, a few weeks ago, were talking a lot about that eight ninety nine secondtion, which luckily didn't make it in. Obviously, the renewable energy credit reductions and phase out there, that doesn't really have much of a near near term impact for UNS given where they're at in their cycle of projects.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

However, on a going forward basis, it just changes the calculus of RFPs and options as you go forward. It just creates obviously different economic outcomes when those credits aren't in there for renewables and storage. So we I think we'll see a longer term impact related to that. It's just there's nothing really that we can quantify. Obviously, the tax credits don't necessarily they make those projects more cost effective for our customers because of the credit.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

So that's something we'll have to consider. ITC really isn't impacted again in the short term either. Remember those LRTP Tranche 2.1 projects that were allocated to ITC. I mean, they're done, I mean, done, dusted and given to ITC to build. So there's not any impact there.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

I would say longer term, when you think about the implications of reduced renewable energy and storage development, it might change the mix of generation. Will it be less renewables? Obviously, fossil generation is a bit in vogue, again, particularly natural gas to build to fill all the data center needs and growth opportunities. But that's just different generation that ITC would be interconnecting, right? So take gas or renewables, we still have to build the transmission to serve all this additional load that's being talked about, whether it's data centers, manufacturing or the continuation on the clean energy transition that so many utilities have started.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

So longer term, we'll see how it plays out. But in this short run, it's very, very limited impact.

[Ben Pham, Managing Director at BMO Capital Markets]

Okay. That's great. Thank you for the update.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

Thanks, Ben.

[Operator]

Our next question will come from Richard Sunderland with JPMorgan. Please go ahead.

[Richard Sunderland, Equity Research - North American Utilities & Power at JP Morgan]

Hey, good morning.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

Hi, RJ.

[Richard Sunderland, Equity Research - North American Utilities & Power at JP Morgan]

There's been discussion of new interstate pipeline capacity into Arizona. I'm curious if UNS is involved in discussions here and if you have a need as you begin building gas plants?

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

Well, for the Springerville repowering one, that's the yes, we have had those conversations and all that additional public information about obviously, we got to get gas to Springerville and that was the big kind of nut to crack to figure out how to do that economically. And as I mentioned earlier, it's great to have a partner like Salt River Project and being an off taker for that as well. That's the one that we've got in the queue now or not in the queue, the discussions to get it in the queue now.

[Richard Sunderland, Equity Research - North American Utilities & Power at JP Morgan]

Understood. And then I guess just again same topic, but looking into the 2030s, do you see a growing need there? It seems like the state's probably in an okay position for the next three or four years but the next decade is probably a little different.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

Yes, that's the calculus we have to look at, right? When we look at our integrated resource plan next year down in Arizona, I mean, is not static. Remember, three years ago is when we did the last integrated resource plan. So as we look going forward, it's going to be a very different load curve that we have to serve. And so that's what we'll look at and then stack up the resources that we need.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

I'm sure natural gas will be a part of it. Obviously renewables and storage will be a part of it. So all of those things kind of go into that mix from a long term perspective. So it's all a bit TBD at this point, but at the end of the day, infrastructure is going to be needed across our sector and frankly, everyone that serves our sector, right? So if there's additional gas needs for generation, there's going to be likely additional pipeline needs as well.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

But that all goes into that long term planning process.

[Richard Sunderland, Equity Research - North American Utilities & Power at JP Morgan]

Appreciate the commentary. I'll leave it there. Thank you.

[David Hutchens, President & CEO at Fortis]

Thanks, Richard.

[Operator]

This concludes the question and answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Ms. Amaimo for any closing remarks. Please go ahead.

[Stephanie Amaimo, VP - IR at Fortis]

Thank you, Chuck. We have nothing further at this time. Thank you everyone for participating in our second quarter results conference call. Please contact IR should you need anything further and have a great day.

[Operator]

This brings today's conference call to a close. You may disconnect your lines. Thank you for participating and have a pleasant day.

Participants

Executives

• Stephanie Amaimo, VP - IR
• David Hutchens, President & CEO
• Jocelyn Perry, EVP & CFO
• Susan Gray, President, CEO - UNS Energy
• Roger Dall’Antonia, President & CEO

Analysts

• Robert Hope, MD - Equity Research at Scotiabank
• Maurice Choy, Director - Canadian Energy Infrastructure at RBC Capital Markets
• Ben Pham, Managing Director at BMO Capital Markets
• Richard Sunderland, Equity Research - North American Utilities & Power at JP Morgan