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Electra Utilities Eyes Expansion Funding - 23 Jun 26
Hamilton · June 24, 2026
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Good morning everybody. Welcome to the
Hamilton Utilities Corporation
shareholder meeting of June 23rd, 2026.
As we have quorum present for today's
meeting, I'd like to call this meeting
to order. I'm your chair Craig Casar,
Ward 12 counselor. We have in chambers
councelor Francis, councelor Tatison,
councelor Pauls, councelor M. Wilson,
Council Wang online, councilors Clark,
Bey, A Wilson, and Spataphor. Good
morning, everybody. And if you want to
take a moment now just to look at your
device and make sure it's not going to
make any noise, please. We'll start with
approval of the agenda. Clerk Kelsey,
can you advise of items included in the
addendum?
>> No, chair, there are no addendum items.
>> Thank you. Could I have a mover and
second to approve the agenda as
presented? Councelor Pauls. Councelor
Wang, any discussion on the agenda?
Seeing none, all in favor? It's a show
of hands vote, please. And that carries.
Declarations of interest. Are there any
declarations from members today?
Seeing none, we are on to approval of
the minutes of the previous meeting. 5.1
is HUS S26-001
Hamilton Utilities Corporation
shareholder minutes from April 7th,
2026. Can I have a mover and second to
adopt the minutes, please? Councelor M.
Wilson. Councelor Wang. Is there any
discussion on the minutes?
Seeing none, we'll vote by a show of
hands.
And that carries. On to items for
information. 6.1 is Hamilton Utilities
Corporation annual annual general
meeting 2026, a Electra, Inc. year in
review 2025.
May I have a mover and second to extend
the presentation time to 20 minutes?
Councelor Wang. Councelor Tatterson.
That'll be a show of hands vote. All
those in favor I can't see online. Do we
have
>> Y?
>> Okay, that carries. And good morning,
Councelor McMe.
Okay, so that carries.
Uh, so we have Julia Camela, chair of
Hamilton Utilities Corporation, and Jeff
Cowan, chief executive officer of
Hamilton Utilities Corporation to
provide an introduction to the
presentation.
And we're just going to take a second to
get that set up.
Thank you, Chair I'm Julia Camula. I'm
chair of the Hamilton Utilities
Corporation board. I'd like to take just
a moment to recognize my fellow
directors that have joined us remotely.
We have Lori Tugman. We have Greg
McCamus and Elizabeth D. Donado and of
course Coun Councelor Wang who's in
person. I'll now pass it over to our
president CEO Jeffrey Cowan for a very
brief introduction before turning it
over to Electra for the presentation.
Thank you.
>> Good morning everybody. I'm Jeff Cowan,
president CEO of Hamilton Utility
Corporation. Uh Hamilton Utility
Corporation is the uh functions as the
shareholder that manages the city's uh
principal interest, 17.3% interest into
Electra Utilities. Uh today we have a
fairly standard uh program. Uh we will
uh followed by resolutions to uh receive
the audited financial statements of Huck
uh appoint the auditor for next year and
as well as some uh board uh
appointments. And without further ado, I
will hand uh the mic over to Brian Benz,
president and CEO of Electric Utilities.
>> Thanks, Jeff. And good morning,
everyone. Um just run through our
presentation. Um first of all, uh I'm
pleased to report that Electra has again
had a strong year with stable financial
performance and incremental value
creation. Since our formation, Electra
has provided 30% greater dividends than
forecast without the merger scenario.
We've made uh major investments into the
city's electricity infrastructure,
renewing and replacing assets, managing
customer demand growth, and enabling
resiliency and grid modernization.
We've been effective in providing our
customers with much better electricity
reliability than the sector average and
our other utility peers.
In Hamilton, we continue to invest in
local electricity infrastructure,
underground cables, and upgrading uh
substations as well as automating the
power grid, which reduces the frequency
and duration of uh outages and
disturbances on the grid. We focus on
reliability, affordability for our
customers. That is forefront in our
mind. For those customers in need, we
provide financial support them uh to
assist them in paying their electricity
bills.
>> Good. We got an echo here.
Electra's delivery charges continue to
be below the sector average and
neighboring utilities, and shareholders
continue to have stable dividend support
from being part of Electra beyond the
status quo.
This slide is a snapshot of our 2025
performance.
Shows total revenue of 825 million. We
actually collect over $4.5 billion a
year uh across our organization. About
$3.7 billion dollars of that is remitted
to the independent electricity system
operator who make payments to generators
like Ontario Power Generation and Bruce
Power and our and the transmitter
Hydro1. So we collect money on their
behalf. We retain 825 million for
distribution uh revenue for Electra. And
in 2025, that resulted in a net income
of $144 million,
which was $24 million higher than budget
and $5.2 million higher than 2024
net income. Our Ebida for the year, our
free cash flow was around $400 million
and similarly our capital investments
were $391 million. Primarily focused on
two areas. One is system renewal
expenditures to replace aging assets and
system service expenditures to modernize
the grid. The second one is system
access or system expansion to connect
new customers uh expand major transit
initiatives and uh and and expand the
system more generally the capacity of
the system more generally. Our rate base
which is the assets approved by the
regulator for recovery at the end of
2025 was $4.1 billion. rate base has
grown by 5.1% on average per year since
2021,
reflecting ongoing investment in our
distribution system. Dividends on common
shares were 85 million, 2 million higher
than the prior year and continues our
track record of attractive and growing
returns to our shareholders. Our return
on equity was 6.8% 8% slightly lower
than the deemed ROE allowed by the OEB
and that's a result of our rebasing
deferral period. Our next rate filing is
going to occur with new rates effective
January 1st 2027 for the period 2027 to
2031 5-year period and we expect return
on equity to move towards the 9% return
level over that period.
We have sufficient liquidity within the
utility, including $800 million of
unutilized uh short-term uh revolving
credit, which provides flexibility to
meet funding needs.
Electric continues to be the largest
municipallyowned LDC, local distribution
company in Canada by customer count with
numbers uh of customers totaling 1.1
million serving almost 4 million
Canadians, almost 1 in 10 Canadians and
one in five Ontarians. In summary, these
results demonstrate Electra's continued
ability to deliver stable earnings, best
for the future, create value for
shareholders, all all while maintaining
a strong financial foundation.
Our dividend policy targets dividends at
60% of shared consolidated modified
IFRS, International Financial Reporting
Standard Net Income. Dividends in 2025
were 85 million and since 2017 our
dividends have grown at an average rate
of 8.3% per year. Cumulative payments
reaching almost $700 million
and u city of Hamilton's portion of that
at 17.31%
is about $120 million since inception.
We expect the dividend uh rate to
increase dividend growth to increase at
about 11% compounding annual growth rate
to 2031
with net income reaching in excess of
200 million by 2031
and um and uh and dividends uh growing
accordingly.
With respect to our reliability indices,
we measure that in two ways. The first
measure there is the system average
interruption frequency index. That's the
number of outages on average a customer
sees per year. So you can see that
electric it's about one outage per year
a customer will see across our 1.1
million customers. The sector average is
in that range and we're lower than
Toronto Hydro and Hydro 1. The second
measure is the duration of the outage
system average interruption duration
index. How long was the outage? And in
Electra's case, it is well below the
industry average. So 75 hours is 45
minutes on 8,760
hours in a year. Uh Toronto Hydro is
just under an hour. Hydro 1 is almost
eight hours and the sector average is
about an hour and a half. So, Electra is
about half the industry average in terms
of the duration uh of outages that
customers see in a year.
We've made significant investments since
the merger in in specifically in the
city of Hamilton. These investments
include installing automation, so
automated switches on our grid that
allows us to isolate faults more quickly
from our control room, increased
vegetation management, wildlife
mitigation, tree trimming, etc. voltage
conversion in the Hamilton core area.
Replacing pin insulators
and old porcelain insulators, looping
our system more gives us more
flexibility and rerouting power and
increasing lateral feeder fusing. As you
can see the top line there, by 2018
the average city of Hamilton customer
saw about two hours of outages and now
they're in that if you look at 2014 in
that um 45 minute range. So significant
reduction in the um in the minutes of
interruption per customer in in the city
of Hamilton over the last uh several
years. [snorts]
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look at their uh their performance over
25 KPIs including carbon footprint,
resource efficiency, workplace safety
and diversity measures.
In 2025,
Can Electra ranked number two in Canada
in the transmission distribution
business and fifth publicly.
Um and um also Electra ranked fifth in
sustainability out of 6,700 public
sector companies globally by corporate
knights. We continue to strengthen
communities where we work, live, and
volunteer. We've continued to support
many local partnerships in health,
housing, and well-being which will which
will and which we'll provide more
details later in the presentation.
With respect to our operating costs, uh
we have one of the lowest OMA operation,
maintenance, and administrative costs
per customer value in the Ontario
electricity sector at $257.
You can see the industry average is at
$345.
In addition, Electra uh has one of the
lowest uh [snorts] percentage increases
in OMA per customer since 2016 uh at 6%
and you can see the industry average is
4.4%.
Similarly, when we look at total cost
per customer, this includes operating
costs and capital costs. Uh, Electra uh,
compares favorably. The industry average
is $1,123.
Electra's at 96 and that's lower than
Hydro 1 and Toronto Hydro which is our
peer group.
The federal government recently issued
its national strategy on on U
electricity grids. Our our strategy on
electricity which is powering Canada
strong. and it indicated that Canada
needs to double its electricity capacity
by 2050 in order to stay competitive.
Similarly, Ontario's energy for
generation, which is effectively um a
load forecast plan
through the ISO projected that we're
going to see a 75% increase in
electricity consumption by 2025.
Um, the Electricity Distributors
Association, that bullet in the middle,
estimates that the cumulative investment
by all LDC's in Ontario by 2041 will be
approximately 103 to 120 billion. when
you consider that elector accounts for
20%
of that uh of Ontario's electricity
asset base and customers. So significant
investments into the electricity grid
are going to be required over the next
decade or so. Electra expects to have
almost half a million vehicles on our
grid by 2031.
We expect to connect more than 150,000
new customers. that's almost like adding
not quite but city of Hamilton to our
grid uh by that 5-year period. So
significant investments are going to be
required and um and then to that end we
look more closely the load forecast
projections within the city of Hamilton
we see approximately 200 megawws of uh
new load growth that does not include
the Steelport facility. Um and areas of
growth include the um the downtown area
32 megawws, Pier 10 20 megawws, the
industrial zone 22 megawws, the metro
links bus terminal 25 megawws, and the
water down highway 5 and six uh
intersection is another 11 megawws. So
significant growth within the city of
Hamilton and across our service area.
And so with that, we're at the end of
our rebasing deferral period. We merged
in 2017. We had a 10-year uh moratorium
on rebasing. We filed new rates with the
Ontario Energy Board last year for the
5-year period, as I mentioned, 27 to
2031.
And the total capital ask over that
[clears throat] 5-year period is $3.1
billion. The com there's effectively
three components to that ask. The first
one is 1.8 billion. The 1.8 billion
relates to renewing and replacing aging
infrastructure. So this is aged cable.
Cable in our system can be 40, 50, 60
years old. When it gets that old, you
tends to lose its ability u dialectric
properties on insulation and you get
what are called cable burnoffs. So you
need to replace this cable especially in
direct buried versus induct structure.
So cable replacement, transformer
replacements and pole replacements are a
large part of that uh rebuild of the
infrastructure.
We have almost a billion dollars to meet
growing electricity demand. So this is
expanding capacity to meet new loads uh
whether it's home heating uh heat pumps,
electric vehicles, new loads that I just
described earlier, transit etc. Uh the
LRT
and population growth. Uh we expect to
see significant population growth in our
service area over the next 10 to 15
years. So we need to build out
substations, expand feeders and pull
lines to accommodate the the required
capacity. And then the third component
is enabling resiliency and
modernization.
So as more of our customers are
installing electrified technologies, we
must invest in building a more
intelligent and resilient grid. We must
integrate new smart grid technologies
that can help us restore power faster
during outages. the investment. These
investments will further strengthen our
grid against extreme weather events and
potential cyber attacks.
Now with this uh capital spend um we
need to maintain uh a capital structure.
We are rated credit rated by by three
institutions DBRS, Standard and Pores
and Fitch. and um they they are looking
to ensure that we are 60% debt financed
and 40% equity financed as we grow our
business expand our investment we must
maintain that capital structure and so
uh the Minister of Energy Steven Leche
um recognized that there needs to be
sustainable financing for municipal
electric utilities across Ontario as we
grow the grid. and expand the grid. Um,
we need to finance it with 60% debt and
40% equity. That equity has to come from
some source. We have uh municipal owners
at Electra and those municipal owners
must have a funding source. Um, and so
we're working with our shareholders now,
uh, including Hamilton Utilities
Corporation and representatives from the
city of Hamilton on how we can, um,
develop a sustainable financing model
for Electra to fund this this growth
that we've just talked about.
Um, in capital investments, in 2025, we
invested 58.7 million and delivered
significant capital renewal projects and
upgrades impacting customers in
Hamilton, including 29.4 million to
replace aging infrastructure, as I
mentioned, poles, transformer, switch
gears, 16.4 million to connect new
customers, 6.2 million to replace
rehabilitate underground cables, 3.8 8
million on net new automated devices,
automated switching, 2.3 million to
replace and upgrade substations within
the city of Hamilton. We expect to spend
another that number isn't correct. The
31.8 should be 52 million in 2026.
And then beyond that, um, we expect over
that 5-year period to invest over $600
million in electricity infrastructure
within the city to, as I mentioned,
renew the electricity infrastructure,
add capacity, support growth, and make
the grid more resilient.
some of the active projects that we're
working on. Um, I should say Hamilton
continues to be one of the busiest areas
across our customer connections group
with significant activity occurring
through transit projects, industrial,
commercial, institutional layouts and
subdivisions.
Starting with transit projects, the
Hamilton LRT project continues to
advance. Metro Links has established the
Alliance team in Electra has already
relocated over $10 million worth of
hydro infrastructure. Looking ahead, our
2026 construction program includes the
replacement of more than 250 poles
100 transformers and over 15 km of cable
to support future transit
infrastructure.
Also within uh the city, Electra is
supporting the Ministry of
Transportation's Highway 5 and six
interchange project. This is currently
the largest road authoritydriven
relocation project in our West region
with an estimated $26 million and
electrical relocation work required.
Beyond transit and transportation
infrastructure, Hamilton is experiencing
significant residential and commercial
growth that continues to drive
electrical system investment. Some
notable developments include 354 King
Street West includes a 26-story
residential tower and 12-story hotel.
The Sucro Canan refinery expansion
representing $135 million investment
supporting one of Canada's largest sugar
refinery refining operations. 92 John
Street, a new 31story mixeduse
development consisting of approximately
400 residential units. 48 Ferguson
Avenue South, 29tory residential tower
delivering approximately 417 units.
In terms of local presence, uh, Electra
employs, uh, 340 staff in the Hamilton
area, working from our Electra Utilities
head office downtown at 55 John Street
North and our office and service center
at 54 Nebo Road. Most of these employees
live here. Many have young families who
are involved in community activities and
support local businesses. Electractor is
an active supporter of the Hamilton
Chamber of Commerce as well as the Stoic
Creek Chamber of Commerce. Electra is
also as a staff person as a member of
the Hamilton Business Improvement Area
board of directors. We support
McMasters's Children's Hospital and St.
John's Healthcare.
In 2025, our electric car's community
support program touch many frontline
agencies and institutional partners in
Hamilton. We put a priority on food
security issues, housing, support for
youth and families, and mental health
programs in disadvantaged communities.
Our total investment in community
support programs in Hamilton totaled
approximately 207,000 for the year. This
included support for the temporary
outdoor shelter at Barton Tiffany. This
investment has been renewed for 2026 as
we continue to support frontline social
service agencies in Hamilton.
So in conclusion, Electra needs to
continue to invest in the electricity
distribution system that supports each
of our customers and is building for the
future. The business environment
continues to change with announcement of
US tariffs being put on goods, off our
goods being paused or being doubled. We
are continuing to have discussions and
advocate with both the federal and
provincial government on a model to
provide a sustainable financing model to
our sector. Our regulatory team has been
successful in obtaining annual
inflationary increases. The most recent
increase for 2025 is 3.3%.
Electra's territory is growing. Our
assets are aging and we must address the
risk of climate change on our system
which supports one in five customers in
Ontario.
Our ratebased application seeks to
increase funding for our capital
investments over the next five years,
grid hardening and growing demand. And
we're pleased to report we have reached
a tenant of settlement last month with
interveners which will be reviewed by
the Ontario Energy Board live for rates
effective January 1st, 2027.
Um and with that uh appreciate your time
today and happy to take uh any question.
Thank you.
>> Thank you very much Brian. We do have a
speakers list. First up is Councelor
Clark. Go ahead, Councelor Clark.
Good morning, chair. Just a couple of
questions.
Um,
how is Electra managing the demand for
electricity given the the rise in
electric vehicles, electrification, the
mush sector, and now these high megawatt
data centers? How how does Electra
manage the demand?
>> We have a um we have a a load
forecasting team. So the team looks at
uh at trends, historic trends, but also
future trends. We have data in our
system that looks at the number of for
example electric vehicles on our current
grid which is about 80,000.
Um we look at uh demographic trends um
and industry trends for EV adoption
rates. Um and we also try and and look
there's different areas. You look at
demographic profiles because the
adoption rate is not the same in every
area. So you look at where the adoption
rate may be higher and where there could
be um potential constraints on the
system. So we we plan capacity ahead of
that load growth. As you can imagine,
you know, electricity infrastructure
takes some time to build, including uh
for example, substations, you need land
acquisitions, you need um you need leave
to construct approval from the Ontario
Energy Board, uh and then you need an
EPC, etc. Um so there's lead time that's
built into our forecast. And um and so
that's sort of on the EV side. Then
there's the organic growth side. We work
with the municipalities in terms of
where development is occurring, how it's
occurring, and similar sort of load
forecasts in terms of what we would need
to expand existing feeders or
substations to accommodate that growth.
Data center low is more of a oneoff uh
request. We take that on a request by
request basis. Um and uh we did did just
connect a facility in Vaughn which was
owned by Microsoft 96 megawws. Uh but
obviously looking at how communities
view this as well is an important
component of that. So those are sort of
the three areas that we would look at
counseling.
>> Thank you for that. Uh chair, may I ask
a second question? Does
does higher demand for electricity
with lagging growth in power production
from Ontario power generation does will
that impact the price that your
customers pay?
>> Um I would say the expansion of the
nuclear fleet. So,
um, Ontario Power Generation just
refurbished four reactors at Darlington.
That costs came in 125 million under
budget, but it's still a multi-billion
dollar plan. Um, they're now building
small modular reactors, 300 megawatt
small modular reactors. There's an
anticipated expansion at Bruce. as they
do this that the commodity price of
electricity will likely increase over
the next five years. Now, we're pass
through agents for that. So, we're price
takers that's set by the uh Ontario
energy board and managed through the
independent electricity system operator.
So, they're likely with the nuclear
refurbishment and expansion is going to
be commodity price pressure over the
next 5 years.
Um, so I'm taking by the answer to the
question that the increasing demand and
the increasing cost to generate that
power will affect customers electricity
bills.
>> Yes, likely it will.
>> Thank you. What what's the impact on
this shareholder
especially when it comes to trying to
finance all of the the increased um
capital that's required to to share the
loads across the city?
Well, as we expand our, as I mentioned,
as we expand our our capital um net
capital spend on an annualized basis,
the that capital needs to be financed at
40% equity. So likely what would happen
is there would be a capital call
um to maintain that structure and so the
municipalities would have to invest
equity because the balance sheets
growing the returns are growing as well.
Um but there has to be a funding source
of equity over the medium term in order
to maintain our capital structure. So
that's the main impact and that's that's
what we're working with uh Hamilton
Utilities Corp and as I mentioned uh the
municipal leadership
staff on in terms of a solution. We want
to bring uh something forward in 2027
as to how we would fund Electra's growth
going forward.
So there will be an increase
request for funding from the
shareholder.
>> That's one potential way to do it. We're
examining other options. You could bring
in you could bring in third party
financing,
for example, a pension fund, which would
help fund that growth
um and still, you know, maintain your
dividend.
So that's that's one option.
>> And when will the shareholder be aware
of what the expectations are for the
municipality? And that's my last
question. Uh chair.
>> Um so we're working we have established
an oversight committee as I mentioned um
and the the members of Huck including
the chair and the CEO Julia and Jeff are
part of that. Um, so probably come to
ground with initial recommendations
towards the end of the year and I would
say in Q1, the new year with the new
council, we'd come in with um um a
review u a presentation on sort of the
the issue and then a proposed plan going
forward and work with you over the
course of the year on what that plan
looks like.
>> I look forward to that information.
Thank you, chair. Thank you very much,
Brian.
>> Yeah, thanks for those questions and
answers. Next up, councelor Wang.
>> Thank you, Brian, for your presentation.
I just have more questions after uh
councelor Clark's questions. So when it
comes to perhaps a couple of clarifying
questions first, uh on slide 13 of 23,
the middle bubble says 103 to $120
billion in cumulative gross um capital
additions. That's for Electra
servicewide. That's not just for
Hamilton. Is that correct?
>> That's for the entire LDC sector. So
that would include all 50 LDC's in the
province. So that's Hydro1, Toronto
Hydro, uh, Electra, Hydro Ottawa, it's
all of them. So that's that that
represents over 5 million customers.
Electra's 1.1 billion of the 5 million.
>> Okay. So then if we're looking at slide
15 where you're talking about the 2027
to 2031 strategic priorities, you
outlined three different areas. 1.8 8
billion for the renewing of
infrastructure, 0.3 for the resiliency,
and 1 billion on meeting the demand. So
that's just for Electra then, right?
>> That's for Electra, right across our
service area.
>> Okay. And then just so that I'm
understanding too, Hamilton is 17%
shareholder in Electra, right?
>> Yes.
>> So I think that that's where the crux of
my questions are. I'm trying to
understand how much money we're looking
at because if the if we're trying to
keep the debt equity ratio 60 to 40 and
we're looking at building out that 40%
equity I'd really like to understand
like do you have a ballpark figure as to
how much you're looking for then
>> um to maintain so just on the on the
investment itself the 3.1 billion that's
across our service areas. But I
mentioned later on that the total
investment in Electra or sorry in the
city of Hamilton was over 600 million.
>> So that is um that's over 20%
of the of the total of the 3.1 billion
and Hamilton is 17.3%.
So it's disproportionately higher on a
I'll say a percentage basis than the
other service areas. So 600 million on
3.1 billion terms of the equity
requirement. Um it depends on the the
credit metrics. It depends on
how we there are other tools we can look
at. So uh we can look at debt in the
hold co we can look at sale of
non-regulated assets that can reduce the
amount but in the next five years we're
looking at it I'll say at a minimum of
$200 million of new equity and probably
closer to $4 or $500 million of new
equity.
>> Okay.
>> So that has to come from some source in
order to maintain that capital
structure.
>> Okay. So, let's just use the biggest
number that you just laid out, 500
million. Um, how does this work and how
do your projections change according to
the new landscape? Because I know
Stephen Leche put out that pulse report.
There's a new bill 40 on securing
affordable energy for generations. Um,
there's also potential federal financing
from the Canada Infrastructure Bank. So,
all of this is changing the landscape in
terms of financing. How how do the two
kind of work together? Um because if
let's say we're looking at a $500
million investment here given that the
other orders of government are also
putting stuff forward, how does that
work? Then
>> those are tools that we can use to
potentially reduce the amount of equity
required whether it's the Canadian
Infrastructure Bank or rate relief, etc.
And we're looking at all of those
options now to try and minimize, you
know, the equity requirement
um and um and get a sustain sustainable
funding model in front of council by the
first quarter.
>> Okay. Well, that's good to know. We'll
keep you to that. I'll I'll definitely
email you and just keep on saying, "Hey,
what about that uh what about that plan
there?" Okay. Okay, my last question for
you, chair, is around um I guess the
projections
and the and the load monitoring because
just as you said to councelor Clark, um
there are things that are kind of in the
pipe that are fairly standard and very
um predictable, but then there are other
things like again if we hear vaugh with
a 92 megawatt um data center coming
online, how does how do those sort of um
blips and one-off cases kind of factored
into the projections and especially here
in Hamilton.
>> Well, we look at it um we look at it
sort of top down. So what is the
transmission capacity? So you know the
high voltage wires that support or feed
into the city of Hamilton. Then we have
um we tap off what are called
transformer stations which are step down
transformers that lower the voltage but
take capacity off that transmission
grid. Those transformer stations are not
always loaded at full capacity. So
sometimes there's existing capacity on
those transformer stations. Now you're
looking at you know your load
projections over time. Some of that some
of that capacity is allocated
uh to new development etc. Some of it is
not. So you know you're you're you're
constantly sort of relooking at the
requirements for um
uh businesses or homes subdivisions
data centers uh who are connecting to
the grid and looking at your available
capacity and the new capacity that you
need to build. And that's where that's
where in our in our um plan for 27 to
31, we do have expansions of transformer
stations and substations and lines in
feeders to accommodate the load growth
in the areas where we expect it to
occur.
>> Okay. Thank you, Chair. I think just the
the area that I get a little bit
concerned about is just truly how much
capital do we really need because again
we were hearing numbers between
essentially 200 to 500 million. Uh 200
million is already a big number. 500
million is an even bigger number. So I
think that where I'm just um struggling
with is just understanding what is the
real capital need here um given our
growth trajectory and how we're growing
the growing the city. But I thank Brian
and his leadership and his team for um
giving us whatever information that he
can provide today. Ideally, we can see
more of these informations sooner. Thank
you.
>> Fair enough. Thank you.
>> Thanks, Councelor Wang. At this point, I
don't see any other speakers. Just going
to do a quick look around. Not seeing
any. Okay. So, thank you very much,
Brian. Appreciate the presentation and
the answers. Uh may I have a mover and a
seconder to receive the presentation for
6.1. Councelor Wang, Councelor Francis,
all [clears throat] those in favor.
That's a show of hands.
And that carries. Thank you.
We are on to seven items for
consideration. We have 7.1 shareholder
resolutions. May I have a mover and a
seconder to put the shareholder
resolutions on the floor, please?
Councelor Wang. Councelor Pulse. Is
there any discussion on the resolutions?
I'll pause to see if anyone goes on the
speakers list.
I'm not seeing any. So, this will
require an electronic vote.
And the vote is up.
>> Thumbs up from council pulse.
Thumbs up from Francis and Tyson.
>> Council Sphapora, are you able to vote?
And that carries 11 to zero. Thank you
everybody. And there being no further
business for this meeting is adjourned
at 10:13. But please don't go anywhere
as we have another meeting to conduct.
Thank you. We'll have anyone online will
have to go into a new link for the new
meeting.
>> Five or 10 minutes.
>> Yeah. And we'll take five or 10 minutes
to transition. Thanks everybody.