OUR OPERATIONS

We invest in renewable power and sustainable solutions assets directly, as well as with institutional partners, joint venture partners and through other arrangements. Across our business, we leverage our extensive operating experience to maintain and enhance the value of assets, grow cash flows on an annual basis and cultivate positive relations with local stakeholders.

Our global diversified portfolio of renewable power assets, which makes up over 97% of our business, has approximately 32,500 MW of operating capacity and annualized LTA generation of approximately 93,000 GWh and a development pipeline of approximately 157,000 MW.

The table below outlines our portfolio as at March 31, 2024:

River

Capacity

LTA(1)

Storage

Facilities

Capacity

Systems

(MW)

(GWh)

(GWh)

...........................................Hydroelectric

North America

United States(2)

30

140

2,935

11,963

2,559

Canada

19

33

1,361

5,178

1,261

Colombia(3)

49

173

4,296

17,141

3,820

11

22

3,053

16,143

3,703

Brazil

27

43

940

4,811

-

Wind(4)

87

238

8,289

38,095

7,523

North America

-

55

6,830

21,872

-

Europe(5)

-

56

1,432

3,309

-

Brazil

-

37

890

3,949

-

Asia

-

33

1,874

5,534

-

Utility-scalesolar(6)

-

181

11,026

34,664

-

-

220

7,119

15,578

-

Distributed generation & storage(7)(8)

2

6,925

5,677

3,630

5,220

Total renewable power

89

7,564

32,111

91,967

12,743

  1. LTA is calculated based on our portfolio as at March 31, 2024, reflecting all facilities on a consolidated and an annualized basis from the beginning of the year, regardless of the acquisition, disposition or commercial operation date. See "Part 8 - Presentation to Stakeholders and Performance Measurement" for an explanation on our methodology in computing LTA and why we do not consider LTA for our pumped storage and certain of our other facilities.
  2. Includes four battery storage facilities in North America (50 MW).
  3. Includes two wind plants (32 MW) and five solar plants (100 MW) in Colombia.
  4. Excludes 303 MW of wind capacity with an LTA of 742 GWh included in our sustainable solutions segment.
  5. Includes a 67 MW portfolio of wind assets located in the United Kingdom that have been presented as Assets held for sale.
  6. Excludes 118 MW of solar capacity with an LTA of 243 GWh included in our sustainable solutions segment.
  7. Includes a battery storage facility in North America (10 MW).
  8. Includes nine fuel cell facilities in North America (10 MW) and pumped storage in North America (633 MW) and Europe (2,088 MW).

We also have investments in our sustainable solution portfolio comprised of assets and businesses that enable the transition to net-zero through established but emerging technologies that require capital to scale, and in businesses where we believe we can leverage our access to capital and partnerships to accelerate growth. This portfolio includes our investment in Westinghouse (a leading global nuclear services business) as well as investments in an operating portfolio of 57 thousand metric tonnes per annum ("TMTPA") of carbon capture and storage ("CCS"), 3 million Metric Million British thermal units ("MMBtu") of agricultural renewable natural gas ("RNG") operating production capacity annually and over 1 million tons of recycled materials annually. Our sustainable solutions development pipeline includes opportunities to invest in additional projects with 16 million metric tonnes per annum ("MMTPA") of CCS, 1.6 million tons of recycled materials, roughly 3.5 million MMBtu of RNG production capacity, a solar manufacturing facility capable of producing 3,000 MW panels annually.

The following table presents the annualized long-term average generation of our portfolio as at March 31, 2024 on a consolidatedand quarterly basis:

GENERATION (GWh)(1)

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Total

Hydroelectric

North America

United States

3,402

3,469

2,171

2,921

11,963

Canada

1,235

1,489

1,236

1,218

5,178

4,637

4,958

3,407

4,139

17,141

Colombia(2)

3,697

4,048

3,944

4,454

16,143

Brazil

1,183

1,198

1,214

1,216

4,811

9,517

10,204

8,565

9,809

38,095

Wind(3)

8,920

8,840

7,809

9,095

34,664

Utility-scalesolar

3,346

4,425

4,558

3,249

15,578

Distributed generation & storage

820

1,058

1,005

747

3,630

Total

22,603

24,527

21,937

22,900

91,967

  1. LTA is calculated based on our portfolio as at March 31, 2024 reflecting all facilities on an annualized basis from the beginning of the year, regardless of the acquisition, disposition or commercial operation date. See "Part 8 - Presentation to Stakeholders and Performance Measurement" for an explanation on our methodology in computing LTA and why we do not consider LTA for our pumped storage and certain of our other facilities.
  2. Includes two wind plants (174 GWh) and five solar plants (248 GWh) in Colombia.
  3. Includes a 231 GWh portfolio of wind assets in the United Kingdom that has been presented as Assets held for sale.

The following table presents the annualized long-term average generation of our portfolio as at March 31, 2024 on a proportionateand quarterly basis:

GENERATION (GWh)(1)

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Total

Hydroelectric

North America

United States

2,224

2,359

1,466

1,950

7,999

Canada

1,010

1,210

980

959

4,159

3,234

3,569

2,446

2,909

12,158

Colombia(2)(3)

843

922

900

1,016

3,681

Brazil

1,008

1,020

1,034

1,035

4,097

5,085

5,511

4,380

4,960

19,936

Wind(4)

2,500

2,415

2,120

2,554

9,589

Utility-scale solar

862

1,240

1,302

839

4,243

Distributed generation

225

323

309

204

1,061

Total

8,672

9,489

8,111

8,557

34,829

  1. LTA is calculated based on our portfolio as at March 31, 2024 reflecting all facilities on an annualized basis from the beginning of the year, regardless of the acquisition, disposition or commercial operation date. See "Part 8 - Presentation to Stakeholders and Performance Measurement" for an explanation on our methodology in computing LTA and why we do not consider LTA for our pumped storage and certain of our other facilities.
  2. Includes two wind plants in Colombia (41 GWh).
  3. Includes five solar plants in Colombia (57 GWh).
  4. Includes a 58 GWh portfolio of wind assets in the United Kingdom that has been presented as Assets held for sale.

Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements and Use of Non-IFRS Measures

This Interim Report contains forward-looking information within the meaning of U.S. and Canadian securities laws. We may make such statements in this Interim Report and in other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and with securities regulators in Canada - see "Part 8 - Presentation to Stakeholders and Performance Measurement". We make use of non-IFRS measures in this Interim Report

  • see "Part 8 - Presentation to Stakeholders and Performance Measurement". This Interim Report, our Form 20-F and additional information filed with the SEC and with securities regulators in Canada are available on our website at https://bep.brookfield.com, on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov or on SEDAR+'s website at www.sedarplus.ca

.Letter to Unitholders

.

We had a strong start to the year advancing a number of growth and development initiatives, and our financial results reflect our ever-increasingly diverse and durable business.

Demand for clean power continues to accelerate on the back of digitalization of the global economy, and we are well positioned to benefit as a result of our differentiated capabilities and track record of credibly delivering scale clean power solutions.

Our pipeline of attractive growth opportunities is as robust as ever given our access to scale capital, strong operating business, and market conditions where not all counterparties are necessarily as well situated - creating a favorable environment for new investments. At the same time, we are seeing a strong bid for high-qualityde-risked assets, creating an attractive market to recycle capital at accretive returns.

Highlights for the quarter include:

  • Generated FFO of $296 million, or $0.45 per unit, an 8% increase from the prior year. The strong results reflect solid resources across our hydro fleet and the impact from development and growth initiatives. These results position us well to deliver our target 10%+ FFO per unit growth for the year.
  • Advanced commercial priorities, including securing contracts to deliver an incremental ~5,200 gigawatt hours per year of generation and finalized a landmark partnership with Microsoft to deliver over 10,500 megawatts of renewable capacity between 2026 and 2030.
  • Continued to progress development activities during the quarter and expect to bring on ~7,000 megawatts of new renewable capacity this year.
  • Progressed asset recycling activities that are expected to generate $3 billion of proceeds ($1.3 billion net to Brookfield Renewable) this year at attractive returns.
  • Strengthened our balance sheet by executing approximately $6 billion of financings, ending the quarter with $4.4 billion of available liquidity to deploy into a very attractive investment environment.

We are Positioned as the Leading Clean Power Provider to the Digitalizing Global Economy

As the accelerating global trends of cloud computing, digitalization, and adoption of AI continue to drive significant growth in demand for power, we are fortunate to be a key enabler of one of the most significant growth trends in recent history.

Demand for cloud computing and AI is incentivizing the leading technology companies to scale their investment in these areas, and the key requirements needed to deliver these products are computing power and energy. However, existing energy infrastructure is not enough, meaning sourcing additional sustainable renewable power at scale is on the critical path to growth for these companies.

In May we signed a landmark renewable energy framework agreement with Microsoft, furthering our strategic partnership, where we expect to deliver them over 10,500 megawatts of new renewable energy capacity in the U.S. and Europe between 2026 and 2030.

The first-of-its-kind agreement, which is almost eight times larger than the largest single corporate PPA ever signed, will assist Microsoft's data center growth and support its investment in AI powered cloud

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services. The agreement positions us well to deliver over 7,000 megawatts of new capacity annually through the end of the decade.

There are further opportunities to partner with Microsoft, with whom we are already set to deliver almost 1,000 megawatts of projects through 2025. The agreement includes provisions to increase its scope to deliver additional renewable energy capacity within the U.S. and Europe, and beyond to Asia-Pacific, India, and Latin America.

The partnership is a testament to our differentiated offering which is characterized by our significant access to capital and credibility to deliver scale clean power solutions from our extensive pipeline of advanced stage projects, which are well positioned from an interconnection and permitting perspective in many key data center markets globally.

While this partnership is a first-of-its-kind, given the significant scale of investment required to meet the increase in energy demand, we believe we are uniquely positioned to be a key enabler of growth for the largest technology players through similar arrangements. Our access to scale capital, sizeable development pipeline, and ability to commission significant capacity concurrently to meet this demand differentiates us as a partner.

We are also uniquely positioned to provide a tailored solution to help address our customers' needs. Our ability to provide scale 24/7 clean power solutions through the combination of our large portfolio of existing hydro assets, our leading nuclear services business, and other renewable power capacity from across the technology spectrum also distinguishes our offering; this is translating to favorable contracting opportunities.

Our Growth Pipeline is as Robust as Ever

In the foreseeable future, there is a need for greater amounts of capital for renewables than is available. Electricity demand is accelerating as a result of growth in digitalization and electrification, and renewables, which are the lowest cost source of bulk power generation in most regions and countries now, and are aligned with net zero targets, are among the most likely sources to meet this growth.

In 2023, while renewable capacity additions globally grew by 50% compared to the prior year, renewable power developers and operators who were not prepared for a higher interest rate environment or were unable to manage through supply chain challenges have seen their business models disrupted. This has created an opportunity to invest for value. With our business, which remains insulated from such headwinds, we are ideally situated at the clean energy center between capital and opportunities.

Our access to scale capital means we can execute on large opportunities where there are fewer viable partners and risk adjusted returns can therefore be very attractive. Larger companies can often attract stronger management teams and have imbedded growth opportunities, which when combined with our capital and capabilities, can unlock additional value creation that others cannot. We are excited about the opportunity to add scale businesses and platforms in attractive markets where we can compound our competitive advantages.

We are also able to leverage the expertise of our global investment teams and our operating capabilities to strategically enter new markets, which enables us to look at a broader range of opportunities.

Thus far this year we have advanced several growth initiatives that when closed will add operating capacity and near-term growth to our development pipeline and based on our current pipeline we are optimistic that our capital deployment will accelerate throughout the rest of the year.

Considering public market conditions and our strong conviction in the intrinsic value of our business, we allocated capital to repurchase our units in the quarter. In the last nine months, we repurchased over 4 million units under our normal course issuer bid. Looking forward, we will continue to allocate capital

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based on where we are seeing the best risk-adjusted returns and remain confident we will continue to create meaningful value for our investors.

Operating Results

We generated FFO of $296 million, or $0.45 per unit, representing an 8% increase from the prior year as we benefited from our diverse operating assets and contribution from our growth and development activities.

Our hydro assets continue to exhibit strong cash flow resiliency given our diversified asset base, inflation- linked power purchase agreements, and ability to realize strong power prices. Our hydroelectric segment delivered FFO of $193 million driven by solid resources across our fleet, which resulted in generation at 105% of the long-term average, and strong all-in pricing.

Our wind and solar segments generated a combined $148 million of FFO, benefiting from recently closed acquisitions and the commissioning of new projects. We continue to execute on development, further diversifying our business and reducing quarter-over-quarter volatility.

Our distributed energy and storage, and sustainable solutions segments generated a combined $67 million of FFO. We continued to scale our distributed generation business with strong growth in our backlog of projects that we expect to commission over the next few years and benefited from our acquisition of Westinghouse, where we continue to see robust performance.

Balance Sheet & Liquidity

Our financial position remains strong with $4.4 billion of available liquidity enabling us to deploy significant capital into growth.

During the quarter we further strengthened our balance sheet executing almost $6 billion in financings. Globally, we continue to see robust financing markets and have been actively extending maturities at attractive pricing with spreads near historic lows.

In January, we issued C$400 million of 30-year notes at 5.3% and meaningfully extended our debt maturity profile. Later in the quarter we issued $150 million of fixed rate perpetual subordinated notes, with proceeds being used to refinance outstanding preferred shares that were scheduled to reset in early April. The newly issued notes are 70 bps cheaper than the reset rate of the outstanding preferred shares we redeemed, saving us almost $5 million over the next five years.

The market for the right type of renewable power assets continues to strengthen as the outlook for interest rates has stabilized. Our large and growing portfolio of contracted operating assets with fixed rate non-recourse financing and pipeline of derisked projects are in high demand from lower cost of capital buyers. We are fortunate to have launched a significant pipeline of asset sales into this environment which we are advancing. In aggregate we are targeting to generate $3 billion of proceeds ($1.3 billion net to Brookfield Renewable) this year at attractive returns.

Outlook

We are excited about the prospects for our business going forward and remain focused on delivering 12-15%long-term total returns for investors. We will continue to be disciplined in our approach while working to capitalize on opportunities in the current environment.

On behalf of the Board and management, we thank all our unitholders and shareholders for their ongoing support and look forward to updating you on our progress throughout the year.

Sincerely,

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Connor Teskey

Chief Executive Officer

May 3, 2024

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OUR COMPETITIVE STRENGTHS

Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. (together with its controlled entities, "Brookfield Renewable") is a globally diversified, multi-technology, owner and operator of clean energy and sustainable solutions assets.

Our business model is to utilize our global reach and experience to acquire and develop high quality clean energy and sustainable solutions assets below intrinsic value, finance them on a long-term,low-risk and investment grade basis through a conservative financing strategy and then optimize cash flows by applying our operating expertise to enhance value or bring these assets into production generating incremental cash flows for our business.

One of the largest, public decarbonization businesses globally. Brookfield Renewable has a 23-yeartrack record as a publicly traded operator and investor in renewable power and sustainable solution assets. Today we have a large, multi- technology and globally diversified portfolio that is supported by approximately 4,770 experienced employees (inclusive of employees employed by our consolidated portfolio companies). Brookfield Renewable invests in assets directly, as well as with institutional partners, joint venture partners and through other arrangements. We have also made investments in our sustainable solutions portfolio comprised of assets and businesses that enable the transition to net-zerowhere we can leverage our access to capital and partnerships to accelerate growth, and emerging transition asset classes where our initial investment positions us for potential future large scale decarbonization investment. Our sustainable solutions portfolio also includes investments in power transformation opportunities where we have invested in businesses to enable the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions through the deployment of traditional renewables.

Our globally diverse portfolio helps to mitigate resource variability, and improves consistency of our cash flows. Our organic growth and acquisitions are typically done through Brookfield's private funds and therefore on a proportionate basis Brookfield Renewable's business will continue to diversify but remain heavily weighted to our premium hydroelectric assets.

Our renewable power portfolio consists of hydroelectric, wind, utility-scale solar, DG and storage facilities in North America, South America, Europe and Asia, and totals approximately 32,500 megawatts of installed capacity and a development pipeline of approximately 157,000 megawatts. Our portfolio of sustainable solutions assets includes our investments in Westinghouse (a leading global nuclear services business), as well as investments in an operating portfolio of 57 thousand metric tonnes per annum of CCS capacity, 3 million MMBtu of annual agricultural RNG production capacity and over 1 million tons of recycled materials annually. Our sustainable solutions development pipeline consists of 16 MMTPA of CCS capacity, 3.5 million MMBtu of annual renewable natural gas production, 1.6 million tons of recycled materials annual capacity, and 3,000 MW of annual solar panel manufacturing capacity.

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The following charts illustrate normalized funds from operations on a proportionate basis(1):

Technology

Region

8% 5%

2%

15%

14%

50%

23%

60%

22%

Hydroelectric

Wind

Solar - utility

Distributed energy &

North America

Europe

Sustainable solutions

storage

South America

Asia

(1) Figures based on normalized funds from operation for the last twelve months, proportionate to Brookfield Renewable.

Helping to accelerate the decarbonization and stability of the electricity grids. Climate change and energy security are viewed as two of the most significant and urgent issues facing the global economy, posing immense risks to the safety and security of communities and to our collective and economic prosperity. In response, governments and businesses have adopted ambitious plans to support a transition to a decarbonized economy. We believe that our scale and global operating, development and investing capabilities make us well positioned to partner with governments and businesses to help them achieve their decarbonization goals.

Strong financial profile and conservative financing strategy. Brookfield Renewable maintains a robust balance sheet, strong investment grade rating, and access to global capital markets to ensure cash flow resiliency through the cycle. Our approach to financing is to raise the majority of our debt in the form of asset-specific,non-recourse borrowings at our subsidiaries on an investment grade basis with no financial maintenance covenants. Approximately 90% of our debt is either investment grade rated or sized to investment grade metrics. Our corporate debt to total capitalization is approximately 14%, and approximately 90% of our borrowings are non-recourse. Corporate borrowings and proportionate non-recourse borrowings each have weighted-average terms of approximately 12 years and 12 years, respectively, with no material maturities over the next five years. Approximately 90% of our financings are effectively fixed rate and only 7% of our debt outside North America and Europe is exposed to changes in interest rates. Our available liquidity as at March 31, 2024 was over $4.4 billion of cash and cash equivalents, investments in marketable securities and the available portion of credit facilities.

Best-inclass operators and developers. Brookfield Renewable has approximately 4,770 experienced operators (inclusive of employees employed by our consolidated portfolio companies) and approximately 120 power marketing experts that are located across the globe to help optimize the performance and maximize the returns of all our assets. Our experience operating, developing, and managing power generation facilities span over 120 years. We continue to accelerate our development activities as we build out our approximately 157,000 MW renewable power pipeline, and further enhance our decarbonization offering to our customers through the build out of our sustainable solutions assets, which includes opportunities to invest in additional projects with 16 MMTPA of CCS, 1.6 million tonnes of recycled materials, roughly

3.5 million MMBtu of annual RNG production capacity, and 3,000 MW of annual solar panel manufacturing capacity. Increasingly, the combination of our operating and developing capabilities combined with our growth pipeline is differentiating our business as the partner of choice for buyers of clean power and entities looking to decarbonize, driving the growth of our business.

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