Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. Common Shares

Thank you for standing by. This is the conference operator. Welcome to the Algonquin Power and Utilities Corp. 2020 Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call. As a reminder, all participants are in listen-only mode, and the conference is being recorded. After the presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To join the question queue, you may press star, then 1 on your telephone keypad. Should you need assistance during the conference call, you may signal an operator by pressing star and zero. I would now like to turn the conference over to Amelia Tseng, Vice President, Investor Relations at Algonquin Power and Utilities Corp. Please go ahead.

Thank you. Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us this morning for our 2020 Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call. My name is Amelia Tseng, and I'm the Vice President of Investor Relations at Algonquin Power and Utilities Corp. Presenting on the call today are Arun Banskada, our President and Chief Executive Officer, and Ardra Kastasek, our Chief Financial Officer. Also joining us this morning for the question and answer part of the call will be Jeff Norman, our Chief Development Officer, and Johnny Johnston, our Chief Operating Officer. To accompany our earnings call today, we have a supplemental webcast presentation available on our website, AlgonquinPowerandUtilities.com. Our financial statements and management discussion and analysis are also available on the website as well as CDAR and EDGAR. Before continuing the call, we would like to remind you that our discussion during the call will include certain forward-looking information, including, but not limited to, our expectations regarding future earnings and capital expenditures, as well as potential future impacts of COVID-19. We will also refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures At the end of the call, I will read a notice regarding both forelooking information and non-GAAP financial measures. Please also refer to our most recent MD&A filed on SIDAR and EDGAR and available on our website for additional important information on these items. On our call this morning, the room will provide an overview of the strategic achievements for Q3 2020. Arthur will follow with the Q3 financial results, and then Arun will conclude with an update on our strategic plan for the business. We will then open the line for questions, and I ask that you restrict your questions to two, and then re-queue if you have any additional questions to allow others the opportunity to participate. Before we turn it over to Arun to discuss our progress in Q3, we will have Chris Jarrett make some farewell remarks.

Chris? Great. Thanks, Amelia. Before we start the formal part of the presentation, I'd just like to say a few words to all the analysts and investors who are on this call. As previously announced, I will be retiring at the end of this month, and today will be the last time I'll be on these calls. As the co-founder of the organization, I've had the honor of serving employees, investors, and customers for the past 32 years. I have to tell you, it's been an incredible journey to be part of growing a company from a single room office above a convenience store to the $12 billion asset-rich company which we are today. I'm incredibly proud of our long-term accomplishments, our 32 years of growth strategy, our successful long-term financial performance, and our success at being recognized as one of the most sustainable companies in the world. As everybody knows, leadership succession in any organization is inevitable, and therefore it needs to be an ongoing initiative. I honestly believe that Algonquin Succession has positioned us as the organization for continued success going forward. In addition to recruiting and to transitioning Arun into the role of CEO, you will have also seen that our senior leadership team has been significantly expanded and strengthened. I'm leaving this organization confident that the new generation of leadership will be successful at executing on the existing strategy, but probably more importantly, contributing new ideas, new energy, and new skills. And lastly, while I'm supremely proud of my role over the past 32 years of building this organization, I must acknowledge the contributions of so many talented and committed employees throughout the Many of these individuals have not historically been front and center to investors and analysts, but their contributions have been immense, and Algonquin would simply not be where we are today without their involvement. And I'm extremely thankful to have had them as teammates, and I wish them the best. So next quarter, I'm going to be at the other end of these quarterly calls as an extremely interested long-term shareholder, and I'll pass it over to Arun now.