Canada stands at an energy crossroads. Surging electricity demand, trade disruptions, and the imperative to attract advanced manufacturing and AI infrastructure have converged into a single national challenge: financing and building clean, reliable power at scale. Hydropower is Canada’s most proven answer to that challenge.
WaterPower Canada tracks over $100B in planned and announced hydropower developments across the country, underpinning refurbishments, expansions, and greenfield development. The question for 2027 is not whether hydropower matters, it is how we unlock the capital, the partnerships, and the political will to build more of it, at the pace of demand.
Now in its second year, the HydroFinance Summit presented by WaterPower Canada brings together an intimate group of decision-makers who will answer that question: utility, industry, and finance CEOs, federal ministers, Indigenous owners and financial institutions, developers, engineers, and legal and policy advisors.
EVENT DETAILS
Location: The Globe and Mail Centre; 351 King St E Suite 1600, Toronto, ON M5A 0N1
Summit: February 24, 2027 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm (EDT) (Registration & Breakfast: 7:30 am to 8:30 am)
Reception: February 24, 2027 from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm (EDT)
PROGRAM THEMES
- Unlocking the $100B Opportunity: What it will take to mobilize private capital across Canada’s suite of potential hydro refurbishments, expansions, and new developments.
- Economic Sovereignty: How Canada’s political moment, from trade pressures to AI-driven demand growth, is reshaping the investment case for large-scale hydro development.
- The Hydro Capital Stack: A deep-dive into how commercial banks, pension funds, developers, and insurers are structuring deals today, and where blended finance, green bonds, and the federal Infrastructure support programs are changing the math.
- Indigenous Equity as Core Infrastructure Capital: How First Nations bond markets, loan guarantees, and development finance are maturing, and what it takes to make Indigenous equity participation a standard feature of Canadian project finance.
- Demand-Side Pull: Understanding the scale and speed of new electricity demand driven by Data Centers, Electrification, and Defense, and what it means for the new investment case for hydro.
EVENT SPONSORS
Looking to get involved? Please contact conference@waterpowercanada.ca to start a conversation.
LOOKING TO ATTEND?
Planning for the 2027 WPC Summit is officially underway. For sponsorship opportunities, partnership inquiries, or to express early interest in attending, please contact conference@waterpowercanada.ca .
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