Post-effective Amendment to Registration Statement (pos Am)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 26, 2020

Registration Statement No. 333-226066

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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FORM S-3
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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NextEra Energy Partners, LP

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware

(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)

30-0818558

(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

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700 Universe Boulevard
Juno Beach, Florida 33408-0420
(561) 694-4700

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive office)

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Charles E. Sieving, Esq.
General Counsel
NextEra Energy Partners, LP
700 Universe Boulevard
Juno Beach, Florida 33408
(561) 694-4700

(Name and addresses, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

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It is respectfully requested that the Commission also send copies of all notices, orders and communications to:

Thomas P. Giblin, Jr., Esq.
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
101 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10178
(212) 309-6000

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Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable.

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	Large accelerated filer x	Accelerated filer ¨
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		Emerging growth company ¨

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This is a post-effective amendment to registration statement No. 333-226066, which registered 5,675,100 common units representing limited partner interests (“Common Units”) of NextEra Energy Partners, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“NEP”), and which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 3, 2018, was amended by Amendment No. 1 filed on September 6, 2018 (as so amended, the “Registration Statement”) and was declared effective on September 7, 2018.

In accordance with the undertakings made by NEP in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities that had been registered but that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, this post-effective amendment removes from registration the Common Units that were registered under the Registration Statement and remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Town of Juno Beach, State of Florida, on the 26th day of August, 2020.