Company: EMICF
Filing Date: 2025-05-28
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001193125-25-129477
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Company: EMERA INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-28
Form: S-8
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AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON MAY 28, 2025 REGISTRATION NO. 333- UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 EMERA INCORPORATED (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

| NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA             |     | NOT APPLICABLE     |
| (State or other jurisdiction of 
 incorporation or organization)  |     | -I.R.S. Employer   
 Identification No. |

5151 Terminal Road Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3J 1A1 (902) 428-6096 (Address of principal executive offices) Emera Incorporated Employee Common Share Purchase Plan (Full title of the plan) EUSHI Finance, Inc. 37 Route 236 Kittery Properties Suite 101 Kittery, ME 03904 (902) 428-6213 (Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service) Copies to:

| Brian C. Curry                      
 Corporate Secretary 5151            
 Terminal Road Halifax, Nova Scotia, 
 Canada, B3J 1A1 (902) 428-6996      |     | Christopher R. Bornhorst, Esq.  
 Ellie Kang, Esq. Torys          
 LLP 1114 Avenue of the Americas 
 23rd Floor                      
 New York, New York 10036        
 (212) 880-6000                  |

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-acceleratedfiler, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2of the Exchange Act.

| Large accelerated filer |     | ☐ |     | Accelerated filer         |     | ☐ |
| Non-accelerated filer   |     | ☒ |     | Smaller reporting company |     | ☐ |
|                         |     |   |     | Emerging growth company   |     | ☐ |

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to