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Our 2025 Integrated
Resource Plan

The energy transition has begun in Manitoba. How energy is made, how it’s delivered and how it’s used are changing.

We’ve started to develop our 2025 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) — a repeatable process that helps us prepare for the energy world of tomorrow. Including information about both our electrical and natural gas systems and building on learnings from our 2023 IRP, the 2025 IRP will result in a recommended development plan — a sequence of actions we’ll need to take to help ensure we’re ready for the energy future.

Manitoba needs new, dependable sources of electricity by 2030

This need was first identified in our 2023 IRP and continues to be confirmed through the ongoing work to develop our 2025 IRP.

We are preparing now to ensure we can meet future energy needs.

This includes preparing a recommended development plan, which Manitoba Hydro is now sharing with you.

The recommended development plan will meet future energy needs to 2035 and align with net-zero targets.

After Round 1 engagement, where we heard from thousands of Manitobans, and following countless hours of modelling and analysis, research, and evaluation from energy planning experts, the recommended development plan represents the best of over 50 scenarios and sensitivities tested and analyzed through the 2025 IRP process.

The recommended development plan outlines what investments are needed in what quantities and by when to meet Manitoba’s energy needs by 2035. It also:

  • Considers tradeoffs of factors important to Manitobans, like reliability, cost, environmental considerations and socio-economic impacts
  • Enables a net-zero grid by 2035 and supports a pathway to net-zero economy by 2050 and aligns with Manitoba’s Affordable Energy Plan (AEP)

Overview of the recommended development plan:

To help meet future energy needs, the draft recommended development plan includes resources to increase our capacity.

Resources include:

  • customer side solutions (energy efficiency, demand response and curtailable rate programs)
  • wind generation
  • combustion turbines
  • enhancements to existing hydropower
  • battery storage capabilities

The road map also includes:

  • an alternative development plan, that shows the next best path to meeting 2025 IRP objectives
  • learnings, or key insights gained from the development process
  • near-term actions to be completed over the next five years to implement the development plan and prepare for the next IRP
  • signposts we will monitor to help understand how (and how quickly) the energy landscape is changing

Take a moment to review the summary of the road map (PDF, 2.2 MB) which outlines the recommended and alternative development plans, learnings, near-term actions and signposts.

Also, learn more about the different energy resource options (PDF, 1.7 MB) featured in the plans.

We want to hear from you

Tell us what you think of our road map and recommended development plan. This is your opportunity to give us your feedback.

Please give us your feedback by December 23, 2025.

Take the survey

The 2025 IRP is planned to be published in early 2026.

Exploring the potential for future energy investments

Demand for energy is growing and our supply is limited. As an integrated utility with both electricity and natural gas systems, Manitoba Hydro is well positioned to meet future energy needs in the province — but work since our 2023 IRP shows a need for new energy sources within five years.

Building new energy sources and creating new energy efficiency programs takes a long time (often multiple years). That’s why we’re continuing to plan: to ensure we’re able to meet your future energy needs as demand keeps growing.

Our 2023 IRP showed us what’s possible. Using the 2023 IRP, we built a road map showing what we learned, how we need to prepare for the future, and the signposts we need to watch to help us understand how (and how quickly) the energy landscape is changing.

As we monitored these signposts and implemented our road map, it became clear: soon we’re going to need more energy resources.

That means we need a new IRP. As we develop the 2025 IRP, we will gain a greater understanding of where we might need to invest — in things like new energy sources and infrastructure, energy efficiency programming, and much more.

How we’re developing our 2025 IRP

Developing an IRP is a repeatable process, used to understand and prepare for the energy future.

Input from our customers, interested parties, and the broader energy planning community will help inform the decisions we make as we plan to provide the safe and reliable energy you count on.

Developing our 2025 IRP looks like this:

Illustration of a car on a road showing several stops for key milestones, listed below. The first round of engagement starting at Milestone 2, and the second round starting at Milestone 4.

  1. Setting direction
    We set the direction of the 2025 IRP by identifying its purpose and what to include. This helps everyone understand what to expect.
  2. Develop key inputs and scenarios
    We gather information and data from a wide variety of sources to outline key inputs and develop scenarios used in the IRP. We also establish the evaluation metrics in this phase before we start our modelling and analysis.
  3. Modelling, analysis and evaluations
    Our experts use specialized computer models to test how Manitoba Hydro may serve future energy needs in the various scenarios. We will compare and evaluate the modeling and analysis outputs to see and share how they align with Manitobans’ energy needs.
  4. Preliminary recommendation
    From the evaluation of the modeling and analysis, we’ll draft a preliminary recommended development plan for meeting the needs of our customers for years to come. We will share and seek feedback on this plan and our road map outlining what actions are needed now to prepare for the energy future.
  5. Finalize the Integrated Resource Plan
    We’ll finalize the roadmap, including the recommended development plan, and publish the IRP in early 2026.

More information about our 2025 IRP process

Your voice matters

We can’t take these steps alone. We will continue to work together with Manitobans and the energy planning community to navigate the energy transition — that’s our commitment to you.

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Learn more about our IRP

What is an Integrated Resource Plan (IRP)?

What is an Integrated Resource Plan (IRP)?

An IRP is a tool that utilities use to understand and prepare for future energy needs. For Manitoba Hydro, it accounts for both our electricity and natural gas systems and reflects combinations of customer needs, service territory, the energy products offered to customers, existing assets, and policy drivers.

A key part of an IRP is that it includes engagement with customers and interested parties as part of its development to ensure openness and transparency in the energy planning process.

Developing an IRP is a repeatable process that can be updated as future conditions evolve.

Why are we doing an IRP?

Why are we doing an IRP?

We are responsible for supplying Manitobans with safe and reliable energy. The energy transition, and particularly decarbonization, is increasing demand for electricity — and Manitoba Hydro’s supply is limited.

Every utility around the world either is or will be facing similar challenges. We must face these challenges head-on and work to understand what we need to do to continue meeting the energy needs of Manitobans.

What’s the difference between the 2023 IRP and the 2025 IRP?

What’s the difference between the 2023 IRP and the 2025 IRP?

Through significant research and discussions with customers, governments, and other interested parties across our province, we studied in the 2023 IRP how the energy transition could impact our natural gas and electricity systems. Then, we built a plan outlining several possible energy futures, or scenarios, along with steps we can take to best monitor and prepare for whatever tomorrow brings.

The output of the 2025 IRP will be a road map that includes a development plan. This development plan will identify a series of specific actions Manitoba Hydro can take to meet future energy needs, including potentially building new infrastructure or creating new programs to reduce consumption.

Our engagement process

Our engagement for the 2025 IRP will take place over two rounds between fall 2024 and fall 2025. The purpose is to listen and gather information and feedback from our customers and interested parties to understand their perspectives and their potential future energy needs.

Why engage?

Why engage?

Engaging with customers and interested parties helps us consider a broad range of perspectives within Manitoba. This will help to make sure that the outputs of the IRP — including the recommended development plan — take these into consideration.

Round 1: Develop planning inputs

Round 1: Develop planning inputs

Between October and December 2024, we gathered information to understand customers’ and interested parties’ future energy needs and priorities. We also sought feedback to develop metrics for evaluating our options and recommending a development plan.

Project information session

Project information session

The July information session shared progress on the 2025 Integrated Resource Plan and highlighted key observations from the development process as Manitoba Hydro considers options to meet Manitoba’s growing energy needs over the next decade.

Round 2: Gather perspectives on our plan

Round 2: Gather perspectives on our plan

In Fall 2025, we gathered your perspectives on our 2025 IRP road map and shared our recommended development plan.

Technical Advisory Committee

To ensure a broad range of input into our 2025 IRP, the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) has been designed to gather feedback from a variety of participants with a demonstrated interest in long-term energy planning in Manitoba, from key areas of interest. As we develop our 2025 IRP, we will consider feedback from the TAC alongside feedback heard through other 2025 IRP engagement. TAC meeting materials and notes are publicly available shortly after a meeting has been held.

Meeting materials and notes

Meeting #1 - November 8, 2024

Welcome and introduction to the 2025 Integrated Resource Plan.

Meeting # 2 - November 21, 2024

Load projections, greenhouse gas emissions and resource options inventory.

Meeting #3 – December 2, 2024

Modelling, analysis, and evaluation.

Meeting #4 – January 31, 2025

Supplemental Session - Key concepts of energy planning.

Meeting #5

Meeting #5 was cancelled.

Meeting #6 - April 7, 2025

Preliminary modelling and analysis results.

Meeting #7 - July 17, 2025

Project Information Session-Interim Update

2023 Integrated Resource Plan document library

Read our report

Excerpts

Appendices

2023 IRP Engagement report

Contact us

For more information about the Integrated Resource Planning process, email us.

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