Brookfield Renewable Partners Q2 2026 Earnings Results & Report

Brookfield Renewable Partners EPS Results

• Actual EPS: -$0.37
• Consensus EPS: -$0.35
• Beat/Miss: Missed by -$0.02
• One Year Ago EPS: N/A
• EPS Beat Rate: 3 of last 8 quarters

Brookfield Renewable Partners Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $1.71 billion
• Expected Revenue: $1.56 billion
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$146.43 million
• YoY Revenue Growth: N/A

Brookfield Renewable Partners (NYSE:BEP) is a renewable power and energy transition company that owns and operates a diversified portfolio of clean energy assets. Its main activities include generating electricity from hydroelectric, wind and solar facilities, as well as providing energy storage and other decarbonization solutions.

The company serves electricity markets and commercial, industrial and utility customers across North America, South America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. In addition to operating renewable power facilities, Brookfield Renewable develops new projects and invests in businesses supporting the transition to lower-carbon energy, including distributed energy and sustainable solutions.

Brookfield Renewable traces its origins to Brookfield Asset Management’s renewable power operations and became publicly listed as Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners in 2011. It adopted the Brookfield Renewable Partners name in 2016. The business is led by Chief Executive Officer Connor Teskey and is part of the broader Brookfield Asset Management platform.

Brookfield Renewable Partners Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: Record second-quarter results: FFO rose 13% year over year to $421 million, or $0.62 per unit, supported by strong operating performance, newly commissioned assets and capital recycling.
• Positive Sentiment: Brookfield Renewable commissioned 1.3 GW of capacity, signed PPAs covering 2.6 GW, and deployed or committed $5 billion toward growth investments, while asset sales generated approximately $2.2 billion of proceeds at or above target returns.
• Positive Sentiment: The acquisition of Aypa for $3 billion will double operating and under-construction battery capacity to roughly 6 GW and expand the development pipeline to more than 80 GW; management expects the deal to be immediately accretive.
• Positive Sentiment: Westinghouse FFO increased more than 60% excluding a prior-year licensing fee, and the company received U.S. Department of Energy support for up to $17.5 billion in loan facilities tied to the potential deployment of up to 10 AP1000 reactors.
• Positive Sentiment: Brookfield plans to combine BEP and BEPC into a single listed corporation, subject to approvals, with management expecting improved liquidity, broader investor access and simpler tax reporting without changes to dividends or Brookfield’s ownership and management arrangements.

Presentation

[Operator]

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Brookfield Renewable second quarter 2026 results conference call and webcast. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star one one on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star one one again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Connor Teskey, Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead.

[Connor Teskey, CEO at Brookfield Renewable]

Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us for our second quarter 2026 conference call. Before we begin, we would like to remind you that a copy of our news release and investor supplement 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 our future results may differ materially. For more information, you are encouraged to review our regulatory filings available on SEDAR+, EDGAR, and on our website. On today's call, we will review our results for the second quarter and discuss how we continue to enhance our leadership position to capitalize on the significant growth opportunities in the current environment and continue creating long-term value for our investors.

[Connor Teskey, CEO at Brookfield Renewable]

We will then turn the call over to Jeh Vevaina, our Chief Investment Officer, who will discuss how we are further enhancing our capabilities in battery storage and strengthening our position as the energy partner of choice to both corporates and sovereigns. Patrick will conclude the call with a review of our operating and financial results, our balance sheet and funding activities, and an update on our recently announced plan to simplify our structure into a single listed corporate entity. Following our comments, we look forward to taking your questions. Turning to our results. In the first half of the year, we delivered record financial results, robust capital deployment, and the highest levels of development and asset recycling in our history. We also further strengthened our balance sheet, ending the quarter with strong liquidity and positioning the business to capitalize on the growing opportunity set in the current market.

[Connor Teskey, CEO at Brookfield Renewable]

In the second quarter, we delivered FFO of $421 million, up 13% year-over-year, or $0.62 per unit, up 11% on a per-unit basis. In the last 12 months, we delivered FFO of $1.444 billion or $2.14 per unit. Up 14% and 11% respectively, compared to the prior year period. We continue to scale our development activities, commissioning 1.3 GW of new capacity in the quarter and advancing our contracting initiatives, signing power purchase agreements for 2.6 GW from our advanced development pipeline. We deployed or committed $5 billion into growth or $760 million net to BEP, highlighted by our recently announced acquisition of Aypa.

[Connor Teskey, CEO at Brookfield Renewable]

We continue to scale our capital recycling program, agreeing to or closing sales that will generate approximately $2.2 billion of proceeds or $630 million net to BEP at strong results at or above our target returns. Our strong execution came at the same time as the fundamentals supporting our business continued to strengthen. Global electricity demand is accelerating, there is simply not enough new capacity coming online to keep up. This supply-demand imbalance is compounded by grid infrastructure that has not kept pace with the growing need for electricity and is not being developed quickly enough to accommodate new demand. Customers are increasingly balancing their needs for speed to power, scale, cost, and security of supply while seeking partners that can deliver integrated energy solutions across multiple geographies on time and on budget.

[Connor Teskey, CEO at Brookfield Renewable]

This is reinforcing the value of our global business, our broad capabilities across various mature technologies, and our scale capital. Our business today is uniquely positioned to meet our customers' evolving power needs through our global platform. We are one of the largest developers of low-cost, fast-to-market solar and wind projects. This is complemented by one of the world's largest hydro portfolios, which provides clean, dispatchable baseload power and is further enhanced by an expanding battery storage business that is increasingly critical to improving grid reliability and enabling greater renewable power penetration. Beyond these capabilities, we have what we believe is one of the most differentiated businesses in the global power sector. Through Westinghouse, we own the world's leading nuclear technology provider. Nuclear power provides a unique combination of reliability, scale, energy security, and carbon-free baseload generation, making it an increasingly important and essential component of the global energy mix.

[Connor Teskey, CEO at Brookfield Renewable]

Existing reactors represent highly strategic, long-life infrastructure that is difficult to replicate, the value of these assets continue to grow in the current energy market. This is being recognized globally as the sector pursues reactor life extensions, restarts, and new build programs. Westinghouse is exceptionally well-positioned to benefit from this growth through its market-leading fuel, services, and maintenance businesses, which service approximately half the current global fleet. Going forward, we believe the most significant opportunity lies in helping deliver a new fleet of large reactors at scale, supporting the revitalization of the global nuclear industry. During the quarter, we achieved another milestone towards that objective. The U.S. Department of Energy issued a commitment for up to $17.5 billion in loan facilities to support the procurement of long lead equipment for the deployment of up to 10 Westinghouse AP1000 reactors in the U.S.

[Connor Teskey, CEO at Brookfield Renewable]

This builds on our previously announced partnership with the U.S. government to support the deployment of approximately $80 billion to build new Westinghouse reactors across the country. The financing program is expected to accelerate deployment timelines by up to three years by enabling procurement of long lead time items in advance of final investment decisions. It also helps to catalyze investment in the nuclear supply chain, improving future project execution, reducing costs, and shortening deployment timelines for projects. Our focus has now shifted from establishing the financing framework for long lead orders to advancing individual projects. As the next step in deploying AP1000 reactors, we are actively engaged with seven utility partners that have identified project sites and are working with them towards executing long lead equipment orders.

[Connor Teskey, CEO at Brookfield Renewable]

At the same time, we continue to work with utilities, power customers, and other stakeholders to establish commercial frameworks that will support the next wave of nuclear development in the U.S. While much of our immediate focus is on advancing these projects in the U.S., we continue to see the opportunity for Westinghouse to expand in other regions as well. The recent announcement of a nuclear cooperation agreement between the U.S. and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia reinforces the significant global opportunity we see for new nuclear development. Westinghouse is uniquely positioned to benefit given its market-leading technology, and will compete for reactor deployments not only in Saudi Arabia, but across a growing number of markets around the world.

[Connor Teskey, CEO at Brookfield Renewable]

Taken together, our access to capital, combined with our differentiated operating platform and expertise across the critical technologies needed to meet accelerating energy demand, positions us to participate in one of the largest periods of capital investment in energy infrastructure in history. Our ability to deliver integrated power solutions to the world's largest buyers of electricity will enable us to capture this growing demand and continue creating significant long-term value for our unit holders. With that, we will turn the call over to Jeh to discuss how we are further enhancing our capabilities in energy storage, strengthening our position as the energy partner of choice.

[Jeh Vevaina, Chief Investment Officer at Brookfield Renewable]

Thank you, Connor, and good morning, everyone. As Connor discussed, the largest buyers of power and sovereigns are increasingly looking for partners that can deliver reliable integrated power solutions at scale. As a result, one of our key priorities is to continue expanding our capabilities across the technologies and markets where we see the strongest long-term demand and feel we can leverage our competencies to generate value for our investors. One of the most compelling opportunities we see today is in battery storage. Storage is becoming an increasingly critical component of the energy mix, expanding the hours during which renewable generation can meet demand while providing flexibility and improving overall grid reliability. This is particularly important as hyperscalers and governments increasingly require reliable, dispatchable power alongside low-cost, fast-to-market renewable generation to support rapidly growing electricity demand. Our recently announced acquisition of Aypa is a direct reflection of this opportunity.

[Jeh Vevaina, Chief Investment Officer at Brookfield Renewable]

The acquisition of the largest standalone battery storage platform in North America for $3 billion, or approximately $420 million net to BEP. Aypa's leading position across many of the fastest-growing power markets in the U.S. complements our large existing business and further expands our battery storage capabilities. The platform includes approximately 3 GW of highly contracted operating and under-construction assets, an additional 3.5 GW of contracted projects, and a further pipeline of more than 20 GW of assets, providing meaningful runway for development to meet the growing demands of our customers and create value. With the acquisition, we are doubling our operating and under-construction battery capacity to approximately 6 GW and expanding our development pipeline by over 30% to more than 80 GW.

[Jeh Vevaina, Chief Investment Officer at Brookfield Renewable]

Aypa, alongside our acquisition of Neoen at the end of 2024, establishes Brookfield Renewable as the leading global battery storage platform, with the scale, operating and development capabilities, and customer relationships to capitalize on the growing demand for storage. The acquisition is immediately accretive, reflecting our disciplined investment approach that continues to guide our capital allocation decisions. We see meaningful opportunities to create additional value over time by accelerating development, optimizing the capital structure and commercial strategy, and implementing an asset recycling program. In addition, by adding Aypa to our existing portfolio, we further strengthen our ability to provide customers with comprehensive energy solutions across hydro, solar, wind, storage, and nuclear. We believe this differentiated offering continues to position Brookfield Renewable as the partner of choice for many of the world's largest corporate and sovereign buyers of power.

[Jeh Vevaina, Chief Investment Officer at Brookfield Renewable]

With that, I'll turn the call over to Patrick to discuss our operating results, financial position, and capital recycling activities in more detail.

[Company Representative at Brookfield Renewable]

Thank you, Jeh, and good morning everyone on the call. We delivered another record quarter, generating FFO of $421 million, or $0.62 per unit, up 13% or 11% per unit year-over-year. Our results this quarter benefited from strong performance across the business, contributions from assets commissioned over the last 12 months, and continued execution of our capital recycling program. Turning to our segment results. Our hydroelectric business generated $336 million of FFO, with results benefiting from strong generation across our Canadian fleet and continued strong performance from our Colombian business, where favorable market fundamentals and our increased ownership in Isagen continue to support earnings growth. Colombia remains one of the most structurally attractive power markets in our portfolio, and we are well-positioned to benefit going forward given our asset base and development pipeline in the country.

[Company Representative at Brookfield Renewable]

Results also included realized gains from the sale of a further 25% interest in a non-core hydro portfolio in Maine, which offset weaker hydrology at our U.S. operations. Within our solar and wind businesses, we generated $166 million of FFO, benefiting from contributions from projects commissioned over the last 12 months and realized gains from asset sales completed during the quarter. Lastly, our distributed energy, storage, and sustainable solutions businesses contributed $84 million of FFO. Results continued to benefit from strong development activity across the portfolio and performance of our nuclear services business, Westinghouse, where FFO was up over 60% compared to the prior year, excluding a large new reactor licensing fee earned in Q2 last year.

[Company Representative at Brookfield Renewable]

Increasing global demand for nuclear power continues to support growth across Westinghouse's core fuel and maintenance services business, while increased energy, engineering, and design activity associated with new reactor construction is also contributing to these strong results. Turning to our balance sheet. We continue to have a best-in-class balance sheet and our financial flexibility and access to diverse sources of scale, long-duration capital continues to be a competitive advantage. During the quarter, we completed approximately $12 billion of financings across the business and ended the period with over $5.1 billion of available liquidity across our platforms, providing significant capacity to fund development and invest in attractive growth opportunities.

[Company Representative at Brookfield Renewable]

The quarter included the largest private placement financing in Brookfield Renewable's history, with the refinancing of our Safe Harbor hydro portfolio on the back of signing a 20-year contract with Google last year, securing approximately $1.2 billion of attractive long-term capital, resulting in an aggregate $700 million in up financing or $200 million net to BEP. Across our broader platform, Neoen completed a EUR 650 million bond issuance, further demonstrating our ability to efficiently access capital across multiple regions and operating platforms. At the corporate level, we also completed a CAD 200 million preferred unit issuance that was upsized in response to strong investor demand and priced at the second lowest reset spread ever for this type of instrument.

[Company Representative at Brookfield Renewable]

We are advancing contracting of our hydro portfolio in Ontario under a program run by the provincial system operator that we expect to enable meaningful up financings over the next few quarters. With respect to capital recycling, we continue to execute our programmatic monetization strategy, generating record proceeds during the first half of the year while consistently achieving at or above our target returns. Capital recycling remains one of the competitive advantages of our business as we bring online contracted, cash flowing infrastructure assets that are in strong demand, allowing us to consistently crystallize value created through development and operational improvements and redeploy capital into higher-returning growth opportunities. During the quarter, we agreed to sell a 570-megawatt portfolio of operating solar and wind assets from our European development businesses to a newly formed European renewable power platform.

[Company Representative at Brookfield Renewable]

Similar to the model we successfully launched earlier this year through Northview Energy, the transaction establishes a framework to continue recycling assets into this platform over time. We closed two-thirds of the sale of 2.1 GW of assets to the Northview Energy platform and closed the remaining third subsequent to quarter end. We also completed the sale of an additional 25% interest in our non-core hydro portfolio in Maine, with the balance expected to close during the third quarter. We agreed to sell a portfolio of solar assets that we developed and small non-core hydro assets from our Isagen business in Colombia. The sales are in line with our business plans and crystallizes the value we've created through operational improvements, contract optimization, and development across the platform. Turning now to our recently announced corporate simplification.

[Company Representative at Brookfield Renewable]

As announced last week, we are moving forward with the proposed transaction, which, subject to shareholder and unitholder approvals, will combine BEP and BEPC into a single publicly traded corporation. We expect the simplification to be tax-deferred for Canadian and U.S. investors and benefit all security holders by improving trading liquidity, increasing demand for index funds and ETFs, simplifying investor analysis, broadening access to investors who prefer a more traditional corporate structure, and enhancing governance. For BEP unitholders, the simplification will also eliminate partnership tax reporting forms while also providing preferential dividend tax rates for many Canadian and U.S. taxable investors. Importantly, there will be no changes to our dividends going forward or Brookfield's ownership, management fees, or to BEP's preferred units or public debt, all of which will remain outstanding. There will also be no meaningful cost to the business as a result of the simplification.

[Company Representative at Brookfield Renewable]

In closing, we believe Brookfield Renewable is exceptionally well-positioned to continue delivering attractive long-term returns and cash flow growth. Our diversified global platform continues to generate growing and resilient cash flows. Our balance sheet and liquidity position are strong. Our disciplined approach to capital allocation, development, and capital recycling continues to drive significant value creation. We look forward to seeing many of you at our Investor Day on September 29th in Toronto. We will provide an update on our strategic priorities, long-term growth outlook, and the opportunities we see across our business at that time. On behalf of the board and the management team, thank you for your continued support and investment in Brookfield Renewable. That concludes our prepared remarks. Operator, please open the line for questions.

[Operator]

Thank you. As a reminder, to ask a question, please press star one one on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. To withdraw your question, please press star one one again. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. Our first question comes from the line of Sean Steuart with TD Securities. Your line is now open.

[Sean Steuart, Analyst at TD Securities]

Thanks. Good morning, everyone. A couple questions. Patrick, I want to start with the other income of $175 million in the hydro segment. I get that this is associated with the asset sales down to Northview and the main portfolio, the portion there. Can you give us a little more context on the basis for that other income? We used to think of what was being included in FFO as gains on development potential or recontracting potential. It feels like this is transitioning more to just booking gains on asset sales. Maybe I am wrong there. Just as other income comprises a larger percentage of FFO going forward, what are the best ways we can think about gauging the scale quarter-to-quarter as this becomes more programmatic for you?

[Company Representative at Brookfield Renewable]

Sean, in terms of how we think about it, you're correct in saying that predominantly, we expect that that really represents gains from assets which we have developed ourselves over time. Increasingly as well, we are finding opportunities as a supplement to that to dispose of assets that we consider to be non-core in nature. You are seeing some of that come through other income in the quarter. We really think of it as asset gains that we've had associated with developed assets alongside certain assets that are non-core in nature, definitely not all sale gains that might come through our results in a given period, Sean.

[Sean Steuart, Analyst at TD Securities]

Okay. All right. Thanks for that. Second questions on batteries. 30% of your current advanced development pipeline that'll grow once you close on Aypa. Wondering if you can give some updated perspective on how many different suppliers you're procuring from to mitigate risk. Appreciating that LCOE for batteries has dropped substantially over the last five, six years. What's your expectation for the LCOE trajectory going forward the next few years?

[Connor Teskey, CEO at Brookfield Renewable]

Thanks, Sean. Make no mistake, batteries are the fastest-growing technology within Brookfield Renewable today, we are looking to invest in and develop batteries alongside new wind and solar on a standalone basis and retroactively on existing wind and solar. Therefore, the opportunity set is very large. We think now with the combination of Neoen, largely in Europe and Australia, and now Aypa in North America, we have the leading battery storage providers in the most attractive battery markets around the world. Given the scale of our battery development activities, I don't think it's a stretch to say we are one of, if not the largest procurer of utility scale energy storage equipment in the world. Therefore, we have relationships with all the major producers, both the domestic ones and the international ones.

[Connor Teskey, CEO at Brookfield Renewable]

We, not dissimilar to what we do on wind and solar. We leverage those relationships to manage around supply chain issues, taxation, subsidies, tariffs, to ensure that we can procure that equipment on time, on budget, and cheaper than anyone else. Perhaps the last comment I would make is not dissimilar to how we entered into large-scale framework agreements with the biggest suppliers of wind and solar equipment in recent years. We are now actively entering into large-scale global framework agreements with the largest producers of battery equipment around the world as well. Again, just increasing our flexibility and our differentiation in developing this asset class.

[Sean Steuart, Analyst at TD Securities]

Okay. Thank you very much.

[Connor Teskey, CEO at Brookfield Renewable]

Sean, sorry. I left one thing out just on the LCOEs. They've come down very dramatically in the last, call it, 24 months. There are some short-term dynamics at play in terms of input costs into batteries that can cause short-term variations in those LCOEs. We're still in the very early days of the supply chain scaling up and the technology improving. Long-term, we expect LCOEs continue to go down, albeit there could be some short-term noise just dependent on input costs.

[Sean Steuart, Analyst at TD Securities]

Understood. Okay. That's all I have for now. Thanks very much.

[Operator]

Thank you. As a reminder, to ask a question at this time, please press star one on your touch-tone telephone. Our next question comes from the line of Christine Cho with Barclays. Your line is now open.

[Analyst at Barclays]

Hi, this is Liam on for Christine. Thanks for taking my question. With regards to the share consolidation, could you provide some details about the shareholder vote? I think I saw that the completion of the deal is not conditional on BEPC shareholder vote, but for both BEP and BEPC, Brookfield and affiliates own a large ownership stake. Can you remind us what that stake is, and if those shares are going to be included in the vote? Is it a simple majority or two-thirds needed to approve? Thank you.

[Company Representative at Brookfield Renewable]

Hi, Liam. It's Patrick here. You're correct in saying that the simplification transaction is going to involve shareholder approvals at both the Brookfield Renewable Partners level as well as at the Brookfield Renewable Corporation level. There will be individual votes for the shareholders and the unitholders. It would require, at both levels, a two-thirds of the vote actually saying yes to pass. In one of the entities, that vote would be for all outstanding shareholders, and in another, it would be for all of those who vote. Two-thirds, as a general rule of thumb, should be your thought process with respect to passing those resolutions to do the simplification. Brookfield Renewable is held on a look-through basis, 47% by Brookfield holders.

[Company Representative at Brookfield Renewable]

You'd imagine a significant amount of the holdings with respect to the Brookfield Renewable Partners votes will be done by Brookfield Corporation and voted in favor. Secondarily, at the Brookfield Renewable Corporation level, there is a stake of roughly 10% that's held by Brookfield holders, which again, would be broadly supportive of the transaction. 2 votes, which we will be going to vote sometime in October this year. The expectation is to the extent both shareholders approve, we would look to close the transaction by the end of the year. An important point is the transaction will go forward to the extent that BEP unitholders approve the transaction. That is a requirement. However, in the event that only BEP unitholders approve and not BEPC, we would continue to go through with the transaction. The transaction is not contingent on BEPC shareholders approving it.

[Analyst at Barclays]

Great. Thank you.

[Operator]

Thank you. I would now like to hand the call back over to Connor Teskey for closing remarks.

[Connor Teskey, CEO at Brookfield Renewable]

Great. Thank you everyone for your interest in Brookfield Renewable and our results this quarter. We thank you for your continued support. We look forward to seeing you at our Investor Day in September, and then updating you at the end of next quarter with our Q3 results. Thank you and have a great day.

[Operator]

This concludes today's conference. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.

Participants

Analysts

• Connor Teskey, CEO at Brookfield Renewable
• Jeh Vevaina, Chief Investment Officer at Brookfield Renewable
• Company Representative at Brookfield Renewable
• Sean Steuart, Analyst at TD Securities
• Analyst at Barclays