Q4 2022 Brookfield Renewable Corp and Brookfield Renewable Partners LP Earnings Call
Speaker 1: Following our remarks, we look forward to taking any of your questions.
Speaker 2: We have had another successful year, continuing our track record of double-digit average annual FFO growth for over a decade. We generated funds from operations of over $1 billion, or $1.56 per unit.
Speaker 3: an 8% increase over last year as a result of the stability of our high quality cash flows, organic growth and commercial initiatives, and contributions from acquisitions.
Speaker 4: We agreed to deploy capital well ahead of our targets, growing in every market we operate, while dramatically expanding our renewables operations and making our first transition investments.
Speaker 5: We also delivered record performance from our development activities with 19,000 megawatts of capacity either under construction or in advanced stages.
Speaker 6: as well as we increased our global development pipeline to almost 110,000 megawatts.
Speaker 7: We are now in the early days of more of these high returning development dollars beginning to flow through our income statement, a trend that we expect to continue as more and more of our projects reach commercialization.
Speaker 8: As it relates to capital deployment, 2022 has been our strongest year to date.
Speaker 9: We closed or agreed to invest up to $12 billion, or close to $3 billion net to Brookfield Renewable, which will be deployed over the next five years.
Speaker 10: This represents almost half of our growth target for that period.
Speaker 11: The investment environment for renewables remains highly compelling.
Speaker 12: Renewables' low-cost energy profile, combined with the themes of corporate clean energy demand, electrification, and energy independence, continue to be key trends accelerating renewable deployment.
Speaker 13: Our disciplined approach to investing and long history of owning and operating renewables enables us to capture some of the most attractive opportunities going forward.
Speaker 14: And as Wyatt and Julian will discuss later, we maintain a best-in-class balance sheet, robust levels of liquidity, and access to diverse and deep pools of capital, including our ability to invest alongside large-scale institutional capital, which enables us to execute on sizable transactions that generate strong risk-adjusted returns.
Speaker 15: During the year, we agreed to invest up to $4.6 billion, or $1.4 billion net to Brookfield Renewable, of capital into our renewable development initiatives, through both organic growth within our existing business.
Speaker 16: and by acquiring new complementary platforms that enhance our current offering.
Speaker 17: This includes our investment in three large renewable development businesses in the United States.
Speaker 18: urban grid, standard solar, and Scout clean energy.
Speaker 19: These investments enhance our position in what is our largest market, bringing our total size to 74,000 megawatts of operating and development capacity in the U.S. Since acquiring these businesses, we have worked quickly to integrate them into our overall U.S. platform. Thank you.
Speaker 20: and have begun executing on the business plans we set out. We are already seeing strong performance from these new investments.
Speaker 21: They are all benefiting from the Inflation Reduction Act in strong corporate demand, which is enabling us to accelerate the development pipelines and grow these businesses beyond our original underwriting expectations.
Speaker 22: Turning to nuclear power.
Speaker 23: As many are aware, we formed a strategic partnership with Cameco to acquire Westinghouse.
Speaker 24: one of the world's largest nuclear services businesses, and a critical player in the energy transition.
Speaker 25: We are moving forward with obtaining the required approvals for this investment and are on track to close the transaction in the second half of 2023.
Speaker 26: The business is performing well, and we are already seeing benefits of the investment beyond our underwriting as nuclear is increasingly recognized as a provider of clean, dispatchable baseload power generation.
Speaker 27: As an example, the Polish government announced that it has selected Westinghouse's AP1000 technology for the build-out of the first three of its planned large-scale nuclear reactors.
Speaker 28: This is a key step towards the country achieving its decarbonization targets and greater energy independence.
Speaker 29: We are also progressing our transition asset investments.
Speaker 30: including most recently our investment in California bioenergy.
Speaker 31: a leading California-based developer, operator, and owner of RNG assets, where we have the ability to invest up to $500 million, or $100 million net to Brookfield Renewable.
Speaker 32: in downside protected convertible structures that support the development of new agriculture renewable natural gas assets.
This investment is another in the continuation of our strategy of entering into high growth transition asset classes that are complementary to our core renewables business.
similar to carbon capture and storage, recycling, and renewable natural gas.
We have invested through small upfront capital deployments with experienced partners.
through investment structures that provide us with downside protection, discretion over future investments, and significant potential upside returns on our capital.
As we enter 2023, our business has tremendous momentum.
As a leading global clean energy company with deep access to capital, we are uniquely positioned to execute on the most attractive clean energy and decarbonization investment opportunities around the world.
Given our strong financial and operating performance, robust liquidity and positive outlook for the business.
We are pleased to announce a 5.5% increase to our distributions to $1.35 per unit on an annualized basis.
This is the 12th consecutive year of at least 5% annual distribution growth since 2011 when Brookfield Renewable was publicly listed.
With that, we will now turn it over to Julian to discuss the importance of our capital sources in supporting our growth.
Thank you, Connor, and good morning, everyone. We have said for many years that the strength of our balance sheet and our ability to invest alongside large-scale institutional capital represents a significant competitive advantage.
We have always prioritized capitalizing the business with a strong investment grade balance sheet, utilizing long duration, non-recourse debt, and maintaining high levels of liquidity.
This allows us to maintain a low risk financial profile and focus on financial strength and flexibility so we can invest throughout the cycle.
In addition to this approach is our structure of investing alongside Brookfield's private funds, which provides access to scale, long-term institutional capital, enabling us to target sizable deals where there is often limited competition. At Brookfield, we manage capital for more than 2,000 institutional clients that collectively have trillions of dollars of capital under management to invest. This means we have the ability to target multi-billion dollar transactions instead of smaller investments that are in many cases far more competitive.
We believe this structure is often underappreciated by the market. However, we think it represents a very meaningful competitive advantage for our business, particularly in this economic environment.
Combined with our platform capabilities, this means that on a recurring basis, we can generate strong risk-adjusted returns by executing some of the most attractive, large-scale decarbonization opportunities.
The success of Brookfield's first transition fund demonstrates this. We raised $15 billion, establishing the world's largest private fund dedicated to facilitating the global transition to a net zero economy. The fund features some of the largest commitments in Brookfield's history, with around 30% coming from new clients, illustrating investor desire to allocate meaningful capital towards energy transition. A key part of Brookfield's private fund strategy is developing relationships with large pools of long-term private capital.
who seek the opportunity to invest alongside us.
to invest alongside us, both by investing in our private funds
and also directly in our investments as co-investors.
Our Westinghouse investment, given its size, is a great example of our co-investment program and practice. We've had strong interest from our LPs to co-invest with us in Westinghouse and the process is moving along well. Today, access to capital is limited for some market participants. So accessing this funding source represents an even more meaningful competitive advantage.
Institutional capital supports our ability to invest in great businesses and achieve strong results that maximize long-term returns for our investors.
The Scale of Our Transition Fund and the institutional relationships and capital it brings.
is another meaningful step change in our funding strategy that will continue to employ as we grow our business and seek large scale attractive investment opportunities.
With that, I'll turn it over to Wyatt to discuss our operating results and financial position.
Thank you, Julian.
As Conner mentioned in his earlier remarks, we had strong results in the quarter as our operations benefited from strong global power prices and continued growth, both through development and acquisition. We generated FFO of over $1 billion, or $1.56 per unit, reflecting solid performance and
and an increase of 8% versus the same period last year. Our business is backed by high-quality cash flows and large part from our perpetual hydro portfolio which has become an increasingly valuable source of clean, base load power.
as more intermittent renewables come online.
with over 5,000 gigawatt hours of generation available for recontracting across our portfolio over the next five years.
and the positive pricing environment for our hydro portfolio, we have significant capacity across our fleet to execute on a creative contract that we expect to contribute additional FFO and generate a low-cost funding source for our growth.
Our financial position remains excellent and our available liquidity is robust, providing significant flexibility to fund our growth.
Julian already touched on the importance of our access to capital and maintaining a strong balance sheet.
We are resilient to the rising interest rates globally with over 90% of our borrowings being project level fixed rate non-recourse debt with an average remaining term of 12 years, no material near term maturities and only 3% exposure to floating rate debt.
Despite market volatility, our access to deep and varied pools of capital continues to be differentiated.
We have approximately $3.7 billion of available liquidity, giving us significant financial flexibility during periods of capital scarcity.
During the year, we secured approximately $10 billion of non-recourse financings across the business, resulting in approximately $1.2 billion in financing proceeds to Brookfield Renewable.
We are also accelerating our capital recycling activities, which are both an accretive funding lever and a critical part of our full cycle investment strategy.
We continue to see a very constructive environment for selling de-risk, appropriately sized, mature, renewable assets to lower cost of capital buyers, and we are advancing numerous capital recycling opportunities in this regard.
We have initiated several processes where we have successfully completed our business plan and executed our investment thesis.
These assets could generate up to $4 billion in aggregate, approximately $1.5 billion net to Brookfield Renewable, of proceeds when closed and provide significant incremental liquidity in the coming quarters.
In closing, we remain focused on delivering 12 to 15% long-term total returns for our investors.
To do this, we will continue to be disciplined allocators of capital by leveraging our deep funding sources and Operation Know capabilities to enhance value and de-risk our business.
On behalf of the Board and management, we thank all our unit holders and shareholders for the ongoing support.
We are excited about Brookfield Renewables' future and look forward to updating you on our progress throughout 2023. That concludes our formal remarks for today's call. Thank you for joining us this morning and with that I'll pass it back to our operator for questions.
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Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster.
Our first question comes from a line of
Sean Stewart with TD Securities.
Thank you. Good morning. A couple of questions. With respect to the broader asset recycling plan that you laid out, beyond the Mexican solar portfolio, can you give us any context on the regional or technology focus?
for that asset sale program and further to that any guidance on returns you expect you'll be able to crystallize through those initiatives. Sure, Sean it's Connor, perhaps I'll take that. You know we probably don't want to comment on any of the live sales processes.
of our businesses and what we're finding is those inbounds are particularly coming on businesses that we feel we have largely derived and we've largely executed our initial investment thesis and our initial business plan and that's when we like to sell assets when we have an interested buyer and we've completed.
the de-risking and value creation process that we initially set off to do. What I would say in terms of locations, it's...
What we would probably say is the vast majority of capital recycling that we see the potential for in the next few quarters is largely in the Americas, both North and South America for us. And then in terms of IRR.
We absolutely recognize that underlying rates have gone up, but we have not seen much, if at all, any widening in terms of target investor returns on a total IRR basis.
in the inbound price indications that we have seen. So we continue to monitor that, but we do still see a very, very constructive bid for de-risk, high quality renewables assets. And those are the types of things that we'd look to sell as part of this program.
Thanks, Connor. That's useful detail. Second question, in your supplemental information, the build up of your advanced stage.
development pipeline. For 2023 it looks like there's quite a bit added to your your Asia platform.
at least compared to the guidance you gave a quarter ago. Can you give us any detail on what's been added to that particular piece of the development platform?
Yeah, certainly. So I'll start in and why if I miss anything, please don't hesitate to jump in. There's two things in particular that have been added that jump to mind. One is in India. In the latter part of last year we've pursued this strategy of building out renewable energy parks in India.
And that is a somewhat unique strategy within India where you buy large plots of land that have strong grid connection. And you can build out renewables over multiple phases and sell the power from those.
projects to multiple offtakes. We've done a number of those transactions in the latter part of the year and that would certainly be inflating that number. The other thing that I would highlight is our previously announced arrangement with BASF.
where we are looking to build renewables for them in China that will be directly contracted to a new large chemical production facility that BAASF is building in the region that they want to be supported by green power. That is a very sizable...
arrangement we have with them. We're talking gigawatts. And that is another thing that would support the pipeline in Asia. Wyatt, I'm sure that covers most of it, but anything else you would add there?
The only other thing, Connor, I would add is we had in past highlighted our rooftop solar business in China where the momentum for that business continues to build. And so we are seeing a little bit more activity of that business, but you highlighted the majority of them, Connor.
Okay, that's great. Thanks very much, guys.
Our next question comes from the line of Robert Hope with Scotiabank. Your line is now open.
Good morning, everyone. Maybe hoping you could comment on what your investment pipeline looks moving forward in terms of what we'll call it, asset acquisitions, or maybe larger platforms. Any geographies or assets that are looking the best?
And you mentioned that inbound indications for pricing has been changed on your end, but what about assets that would require maybe a little bit more work on the financing or contracting side? Thank you. Thanks Rob. No doubt the pipeline remains strong and there's probably two key things that we would...
highlight. Clearly in 2022, and we'll make a comment here that we've made previously, if we go all the way back to 2021, we looked at buying a lot of renewable development platforms in our core markets around the world.
We did a lot of due diligence processes, we analyzed a lot of opportunities, but we found the market was very, very frothy and we struggled to see things where we were comfortable with the value entry point. As we moved into 2022, there were a number of things in the market.
you know, a little bit of macro uncertainty, rising rates, some supply chain pressures that perhaps other market participants aren't as well suited to manage through. We saw tremendous opportunities in 2022.
to buy renewables developers, high quality renewables developers in our core markets at entry points that quite frankly we would have fallen out of our chair to execute on in 2021. One big theme as we enter 2023 is we see that dynamic continuing.
We do see that dynamic continuing in the early part of the year, and we are seeing the ability, we believe, to acquire renewable development platforms where we can obviously use our corporate capabilities to enhance those businesses.
we're still seeing attractive value entry points there and hope to execute some of those transactions in the near term. If that's point one, the other thing that we would highlight is with the rise in rates and some of the market uncertainty and perhaps capital scarcity in the market, we do believe that we are going to see more opportunities in 2023 to buy operating assets than perhaps small assets in the near term. I think we know that yes, that little
You have accelerated some investment into 2023. You know, how are we looking at the supply chain are most of the issues behind us as well as inflation? Do you have a good handle on that to give you the confidence to further accelerate development into 2023?
Yeah, so we'll perhaps split that into two chunks. The one thing I would say about our 2023 pipeline as referenced in the supplemental, we see that ourdoors
2022 was our biggest year of development on record. We brought three and a half gigawatts of new projects online. As we look to 2023, that number is sitting today. We expect to bring about five gigawatts online.
The first thing we would highlight is of these 2023 projects, a large portion of that 5 gigawatts in our minds is very largely derisked at this point. A lot of it's either under construction or it's already fully contracted. And we often make the comment that funding is secured.
in a lot of these projects all the funding is already in the ground. We don't need to contribute any incremental equity to get those projects across the line. So our confidence on delivery in 2023 is very strong. When you speak about the supply chain issues.
For us, we think about that probably beyond 2023 because our 2023 is very well wrapped up. And I think there's probably two dynamics to consider there. One is on a global basis, we're really seeing...
the cost of solar modules dropped significantly.
You know, in the past year or so, we've seen them quoted as high as, call it, 40 cents. Now we're largely seeing that prices in the low 20 cents. So not all the way back to where they were in 2019, but the majority of the way back. The one place where there continues to be some...
Uncertainty and management of the supply chain required continues to be the United States. But the good news is there is with the benefits of IRA and the things we can do with our central procurement system, putting orders in ahead of time, working with our key suppliers.
We definitely see the supply chain in total getting much easier to manage than where we were six or 12 months ago. So it's definitely a good news story from both an execution and an economics perspective.
That's great. Thank you. Our next question comes from a line of Rupert Merritt with National Bank Financial.
Just following up on the U.S. solar development question, can you talk a little about how the availability of grid interconnections is evolving and are you seeing a lot of the
increasing competition for interconnection spots.
competition for interconnection spots. Thanks Rupert.
I appreciate you asking it because it's one of our favorite questions. The focus on grid connection and interconnection availability is certainly something that has grabbed much more headlines across the industry in the last 6 or 12 months.
And as it should, you know, if part of any development process, you need to secure land, you need to secure grid connection and you need to secure permitting. From there you need to get equipment and EPC in a contract, but you need those first three. And with the amount of renewables.
going on to grids around the world, there's probably very few grids around the world that the value of high quality interconnection hasn't gone up in recent years. The reason why we really like this question is, this is something that we've been focused on probably now for four or five years.
And when we assess developers and the quality of their pipelines, we've always been taking into account what grid connections they have and where do they fit within the InfraConnection Q when valuing those pipelines and the likelihood and the economics at which they can be built out.
A great example of this is Urban Grid, which we bought last year. One of the reasons why we felt we saw a value in that platform where maybe perhaps didn't is we feel that Urban Grid has an incredibly strong portfolio of high-end
positions in the PGM interconnection queue that most would recognize PGM as a very high-value market for renewable development. So this will continue to be a focus but we feel it's something that we have well in hand not because of our work in the last six or 12 months but because of our work over the last four.
already takes into account our views of when we'll get those grid connections.
Thanks, and a follow up on the asset recycling question, would you consider recycling any of your hydro assets in North America? And if you do, how do you assess the value of those today versus the value of a...
of solar and the wind asset, given some of the storage potential? Yeah, certainly.
We will always do what is in the best interest of ourselves and our unit holders in terms of capital recycling. Where will we allocate capital? Where will we seek to recycle some assets? We do believe that our...
portions of our hydro portfolio around the world are truly irreplaceable assets. And they have a long runway of continued value growth given their ability to not only provide base load clean, dispatchable power.
but also the ability for them to provide grid stabilizing ancillary services to electricity grids that increasingly are going to have more intermittent renewable wind and solar connected. So would we sell those assets at the appropriate price? Absolutely, but only at a price that we feel.
takes into account that extremely robust outlook for those assets that we're seeing from our vantage point.
Great. I'll leave it there. Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Ben Femm with BMO Capital Markets.
All right, thanks. I'll ask a question on the US market. And I'm wondering.
How do you see your U.S. initiative shaking out the next couple of years? I know you mentioned a style writing, some of the projects there, but do you think the development backlog is going to increase? Is it an M&A around the corner? Maybe share a little bit, I know you mentioned a decentralized...
purchasing a competitive advantage, but anything else you can share in terms of how you position yourself in the US.
Certainly, so it's a good question Ben. I think the thing to recognize about our US platform is there's two things that differentiate us in the US at a level that is very, very tough for almost any other platform to match.
And those two things are one, the scale of our platform, and two, the fact that we have a very diverse set of renewable technologies at a scale in the U.S. And that's really driving our business in two different ways. One, we are seeing increasing opportunities.
to provide unique contract solutions in the US. And when I say unique, they could be unique in a multiple of different ways, but I'll give the first example. We have over 70,000 megawatts of operating and development capacity there. We can provide green power on a scale in the US that very few others can. So when you're thinking about the
not only the size but the breadth of our portfolio is to use our different asset classes together to provide unique solutions to our customers.
That might be pairing one of our hydro assets with wind and solar projects in the regions to provide 24-7 green power solutions to a customer that wants 100% clean energy. So, the US, it's our biggest market today, but it's also the market that...
We saw the most amount of M&A deployed into last year and the most amount of development progressed last year. You know, different years might ebb and flow, but the US is always gonna be one of our most active markets for at least the foreseeable future. Okay, interesting. And are you still the most bullish on...
because it is the cheapest form of bulk electricity production in most markets and it is on a relative basis less operationally intensive to one build and to maintain. So today I would say that as we look at you know grids in major markets around the world we would probably expect
Okay, maybe one last question on the countries. Is there a country or region that...
Is there a country or region that you're maybe...
initially looking at right now that you want to be in potentially in five years? Yeah, sure. So we
We've said for many years now that we're in all the regions around the world where we feel the need to be there. Obviously last year we made our first investments in Australia, we set up a team there. In fact in this last quarter we brought our first project online. That's a market that we'll continue to look at opportunities in.
as that continent, if you will, tries to establish a greater form of energy security. So I would say we're not talking any major changes beyond our historic geographical footprints, but probably just deepening our positions in what we already consider to be our core markets. That's right, helpful, Connor. Our next question comes from a line of Frederick Bastion with Raymond James.
Good morning. Brookfield Infrastructure said yesterday it has taken some modest total positions in publicly traded stocks. When you think about adding or acquiring operating assets to your portfolio, is the opportunity more weighted?
towards corporate carveouts right now, or are you also seeing good opportunities for take private transactions?
Yeah, I would definitely say it's both. You know, in the last call it...
12 to 18 months as demonstrated by the transactions that we've done. We've really focused on a lot of businesses that are what you would call pure play developers. You know, we felt like a lot of those the pipelines in those businesses were very far advanced. There were projects that were either under construction or about to come online.
but very few of them had operating assets. Even when you look at something like Scout Energy that we did at the end of last year, you could already see the market moving in that direction as when we bought Scout, it comes with not only a very large pipeline of future development opportunities, but a large portfolio of operating assets as well. So I'd say this frustrated by some of the things that have come out that are affecting peninsula organizations and because of the issues of PKs and addresses, let's not forget, favtypes of AE is very important today because it can cause disruptions Latin America, explain these issues with, like COVID-19 and whatever, bring them toR and learn new awesome things about how
We are seeing opportunities on the private side as well, but no doubt, you know, the current economic environment and some of the downwinds throughout Q4 across public markets have certainly increased the opportunities we see in the public take private.
I wouldn't say our activities in that regard have gone up or down in particular over the last couple quarters, but it's something we do on an ongoing basis and something will continue to do. It's been a useful way to help us source transactions over the last five to ten years.
Okay cool, that's helpple.
Last one for me. Of the 19 gigawatt of advanced stage and construction ready projects that you highlighted, how much of that will be commissioned this year versus next year in the following years?
Thank you. So we're targeting about five gigawatts this year.
And just maybe for the following year. Oh, sorry.
I jumped. It's about 5 gigawatts for this year and a little bit more closer to five and a half the next year. But I would say five is probably a pretty healthy run rate of where we're at right now.
Great. Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Daji Baydoon with industrial alliance securities.
Hi, good morning. I just wanted to go back to the funding picture. So, $1.5 billion of targeted asset sales for this year, a large part of I think your overall target for proceeds from asset sales over the next few years, how much of this pulling forward?
of capital recycling as a function of near-term funding needs versus just the strong violations on the assets as you previously mentioned.
Yeah, so I'll answer that question in two ways. I would say the asset sales that we are planning, I would say those will happen throughout 2023 and some may stretch into 2024. So we wouldn't want to give anyone the impression that it's all coming in the next 11 months.
Some of these processes are for large businesses and may take time, so certainly could extend into next year. To answer your second point, what's driving this, I would say it's almost entirely the latter part of your question. It's the robust demand we're seeing for our assets and the...
The simple fact, I'd almost say it's coincidental that we are at a point where we are completing the business plans and believe that we have extracted the value-add opportunity that we saw in a number of businesses around this time. You know, the timing of when those business plans and those operations
complete is going to ebb and flow over the wide variety of businesses we have, but we've had a number complete throughout 2022, and that just creates the opportunity for very attractive and accretive capital recycling this year.
really bringing together the full cycle value creation approach we like to deploy.
Okay, that's the top hole. Thank you. And just one last question on offshore wind. Two part question. One, if you can just discuss the related function in the Netherlands and if you're thinking strange around participating in the market on forward and then if you also see the potential participate in the sort of the...
launch or the beginning of the offshore wind industry in Colombia. Thank you. Certainly. So we weren't successful in our bid in the most recent Dutch auction. We continue to believe that is a very compelling market. I would say we monitor all the major.
offshore wind markets around the world. And there are certain attributes about market that we thought were very interesting to us in particular, the ability to leverage our power marketing capabilities in an outsized way. And therefore, we will continue to look at opportunities in that market. We would not hesitate to go back there in the future.
So we'll monitor it, but it's not something high on our radar right now. One thing I would say, however, is our existing offshore pipeline in Poland continues to move forward in a really constructive way.
The adjustments that the government has made in the region around inflation indexation and the ability for those contracts to be priced in Euros are both very, very helpful to our investment thesis and underwriting for that business. Okay, thank you for the interview. That's great.
As a reminder to ask a question, that's star 11. Our next question comes from a line of Andrew with Credit Suisse.
Thanks. Good morning. Maybe a big picture question. We saw a lot of tech companies have a lot of appetite for effectively renewable PPAs.
You know, a number of those companies kind of got over their skis with data fender build out their house build out and now are pulling back a bit What are you really seeing from that customer base as far as appetite for PPAs on a go for basis? Is there a little bit of a pause or is it still you know full throttle ahead? Absolutely full throttle where we say that
you know, given the size and scale of their business.
They're trying to go 100% green over the next four or nine years. Sorry, three or eight years. And that is a huge undertaking given the size of their businesses today. And that undertaking becomes even more monumental when you consider the growth of those businesses.
that the customers desire. OK, that's very helpful. And then maybe just another way to think about Brookfield's optionality with providing solutions.
Okay, that's very helpful. And then maybe just another way to think about Brookfield's optionality with providing solutions. Simply phrase
like the infrastructure funds which you participate in, there's the energy transition fund now, is there an opportunity to have like a super core renewable fund in the broader Brookfield product shelf that you'd participate in?
Certainly, we wouldn't rule anything out. We obviously have had significant success recently with the launch of the transition fund and that has seen not only tremendous interest from investors, but it's also seen increasingly innovation.
So not only are we seeing scaling of our existing products, absolutely as the industry continues to get bigger and we see more opportunities both across the capital stack and across the risk reward spectrum, we wouldn't rule out different products if that's one, what our customers were looking for and two, we saw a significant opportunity to put that capital to work at attractive risk-adjusted returns.
Well, the way we'd probably see it most, it's a great question, Andrew, the way we'd probably see it most today is you think about things like stabilized solar. Those are the types of assets that work really well into an asset recycling program right now. And, you know, once we built them out, once we've de-risked them, once they're under a long-term PPA.
online that's the type of opportunity that lends itself to some of the asset recycling initiatives that we've kicked off.
Excellent. Thank you very much. That concludes today's question and answer session. I'd like to turn the call back to Connor Teske for closing remarks. Great. Well, we very much appreciate everyone dialing in. We always appreciate the support and interest in Brookfield Renewable.
and we look forward to providing an update following the next quarter and throughout 2023. Thank you everyone and have a good day. This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.
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