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ACQUISTIONS, DIVESTITURES AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Business Combinations [Abstract]  
ACQUISTIONS, DIVESTITURES AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS ACQUISITIONS, DIVESTITURES AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
We consolidate assets acquired and liabilities assumed as of the purchase date and include earnings from acquisitions in consolidated earnings after the purchase date.
ACQUISITIONS
Sempra Texas Utilities
TTHC
In February 2020, Sempra Texas Intermediate Holding Company LLC, acquired an additional indirect 0.2% interest in Oncor through its acquisition of a 1% interest in TTHC from Hunt Strategic Utility Investment, L.L.C., including notes receivable due from TTHC with an aggregate outstanding balance of approximately $5.5 million, for a total purchase price of approximately $23 million in cash, bringing Sempra Energy’s indirect ownership in Oncor to approximately 80.45%. TTHC owns 100% of TTI, which owns 19.75% of Oncor’s outstanding membership interests.
Oncor Holdings
In March 2018, Sempra Energy completed the acquisition of an indirect, 100% interest in Oncor Holdings, which owned 80.03% of Oncor, and other EFH assets and liabilities unrelated to Oncor, pursuant to the Merger Agreement with EFH. Under the Merger Agreement, we paid Merger Consideration of $9.45 billion in cash and an additional $31 million representing an adjustment for dividends and payments pursuant to a tax sharing agreement with Oncor and Oncor Holdings. Also in March 2018, in a separate transaction, Sempra Energy, through its interest in Oncor Holdings, acquired an additional 0.22% of the outstanding membership interests in Oncor from OMI for $26 million in cash, bringing Sempra Energy’s indirect ownership in Oncor to 80.25%. TTI continues to own 19.75% of Oncor’s outstanding membership interest.
Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, the reorganized EFH (renamed Sempra Texas Holdings Corp.) merged with an indirect subsidiary of Sempra Energy, with Sempra Texas Holdings Corp. continuing as the surviving company and an indirect, wholly
owned subsidiary of Sempra Energy. Sempra Texas Holdings Corp. wholly owns EFIH (renamed Sempra Texas Intermediate Holding Company LLC), which holds our 100% interest in Oncor Holdings. Other assets and liabilities unrelated to Oncor that were acquired with Sempra Texas Holdings Corp. have been subsumed into our parent organization, Parent and other.
Due to ring-fencing measures, existing governance mechanisms and commitments in effect, we do not have the power to direct the significant activities of Oncor Holdings and Oncor. Consequently, we account for our 100% ownership interest in Oncor Holdings as an equity method investment. See Note 6 for additional information about our equity method investment in Oncor Holdings and related ring-fencing measures.
In anticipation of the Merger, in January 2018, we completed registered public offerings of our common stock (including shares offered pursuant to forward sale agreements), series A preferred stock and long-term debt, as we discuss in Notes 7, 13 and 14. These offerings provided total initial net proceeds of approximately $7.0 billion for partial funding of the Merger Consideration, of which approximately $800 million was used to pay down commercial paper, pending the closing of the Merger.
In March 2018, to fund a portion of the Merger Consideration, we settled approximately $900 million (net of underwriting discounts of $16 million) of forward sales under the forward sale agreements entered into in connection with the public offering of common stock in January 2018 by delivery of 8,556,630 shares of newly issued Sempra Energy common stock, as we discuss in Note 14. We raised the remaining portion of the Merger Consideration through issuances of approximately $2.6 billion in commercial paper with a weighted-average maturity of 47 days and a weighted-average interest rate of 2.2% per annum.
The total purchase price paid was comprised of the following:
$9,450 million of Merger Consideration;
$31 million adjustment for dividends and payments pursuant to a tax sharing agreement with Oncor and Oncor Holdings;
$26 million paid in a separate transaction to acquire an additional 0.22% of the outstanding membership interests in Oncor from OMI; and
$59 million of transaction costs included in the basis of our investment in Oncor Holdings.
We accounted for the Merger as an asset acquisition, as the equity method investment in Oncor Holdings represents substantially all of the fair value of the gross assets acquired. The following table sets forth the allocation of the total purchase price paid to the identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed.
PURCHASE PRICE ALLOCATION
 
 
(Dollars in millions)
 
At March 9, 2018(1)
Assets acquired:
 
Accounts receivable – other, net
 
$
1

Due from unconsolidated affiliates
 
46

Investment in Oncor Holdings
 
9,227

Deferred income tax assets
 
287

Other noncurrent assets
 
109

Total assets acquired
 
9,670

 
 
 
Liabilities assumed:
 
 
Other current liabilities
 
23

Pension and other postretirement benefit plan obligations
 
21

Deferred credits and other
 
58

Total liabilities assumed
 
102

Net assets acquired
 
$
9,568

Total purchase price paid
 
$
9,568

(1) 
In the fourth quarter of 2018, we received additional information regarding deferred income taxes related to the resolution of claims in EFH’s emergence from bankruptcy as of the acquisition date. As a result, we recorded an adjustment to increase our investment in Oncor Holdings by $64 million, decrease deferred income tax assets by $66 million and decrease deferred credits and other liabilities by $2 million. Also in the fourth quarter of 2018, we recorded $2 million of additional purchase price paid related to additional transaction costs.

The fair value of the equity method investment in Oncor Holdings is primarily attributable to Oncor’s business. Therefore, we considered the underlying assets and liabilities of Oncor when determining the fair value of our equity method investment. As a regulated entity, Oncor’s rates are set and approved by the PUCT, and are designed to recover the cost of providing service and the opportunity to earn a reasonable return on its investments. Accordingly, Oncor applies the guidance under the provisions of U.S. GAAP governing rate-regulated operations. Under U.S. GAAP, regulation is viewed as being a characteristic (restriction) of
a regulated entity’s assets and liabilities, and the impact of regulation is considered a fundamental input to measuring the fair value of Oncor’s assets and liabilities. Under this premise, we concluded that the carrying values of all assets and liabilities recoverable through rates are representative of their fair values.
In May 2019, Oncor completed the acquisition of 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of InfraREIT and 100% of the limited partnership units of its subsidiary, InfraREIT Partners, LP, pursuant to the InfraREIT Merger Agreement. Under the InfraREIT Merger Agreement, Oncor paid merger consideration of $1,275 million, or $21 per share, plus certain transaction costs incurred by InfraREIT and its subsidiaries and paid by Oncor on their behalf, including $40 million for a management agreement termination fee. In connection with and immediately after the closing, Oncor also extinguished all of InfraREIT’s outstanding debt (totaling $953 million) by repaying an aggregate principal amount of $602 million on behalf of InfraREIT’s subsidiaries (using proceeds from a term loan and issuances of commercial paper), and exchanging an aggregate principal amount of $351 million of secured senior notes issued by InfraREIT subsidiaries for secured senior notes issued by Oncor. Oncor received a total of $1,330 million in capital contributions from Sempra Energy and certain indirect equity holders of TTI, proportionate to their respective ownership interest in Oncor, to fund the purchase price and certain expenses.
As part of Oncor’s acquisition of interests in InfraREIT, immediately prior to closing the InfraREIT Merger Agreement, SDTS accepted and assumed certain assets and liabilities of Sharyland Utilities, LP in exchange for certain SDTS assets, pursuant to the Asset Exchange Agreement. SDTS received real property and other assets used in the electric transmission and distribution business in Central, North and West Texas, as well as the equity interests in GS Project Entity, LLC (a wholly owned subsidiary of Sharyland Utilities, LP), and Sharyland Utilities, LP received real property and other assets used in the electric transmission and distribution business near the Texas-Mexico border. Pursuant to the Asset Exchange Agreement, immediately prior to the completion of the exchange, SDTS became a wholly owned, indirect subsidiary of InfraREIT Partners, LP.
Sharyland Holdings
On May 16, 2019, Sempra Energy acquired an indirect, 50% interest in Sharyland Holdings for $95 million (net of $7 million in post-closing adjustments) pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement. In connection with and prior to the consummation of the Securities Purchase Agreement, Sharyland Holdings owned 100% of the membership interests in Sharyland Utilities, LP and Sharyland Utilities, LP converted into a limited liability company, named Sharyland Utilities, L.L.C. We account for our interest in Sharyland Holdings as an equity method investment.
Sempra Mexico
Ductos y Energéticos del Norte, S. de R.L. de C.V.
On November 15, 2017, IEnova completed the asset acquisition of PEMEX’s 50% interest in DEN, a JV that holds a 50% interest in the Los Ramones Norte pipeline through TAG JV, for a purchase price of $165 million (exclusive of $18 million of cash and cash equivalents acquired), plus the assumption of $96 million of short-term debt. This acquisition increased IEnova’s ownership interest in DEN through IEnova Pipelines from 50% to 100%, and increased IEnova’s indirect ownership interest in TAG JV from 25% to 50%. IEnova Pipelines previously accounted for its 50% interest in DEN as an equity method investment. At closing, DEN became a wholly owned, consolidated subsidiary of IEnova Pipelines. DEN will continue to account for its interest in TAG JV as an equity method investment. This acquisition also included a $66 million intangible asset that represents a favorable O&M agreement, which has an amortization period of 23 years.
Sempra Renewables
On July 10, 2017, Sempra Renewables paid $124 million in cash for an asset acquisition of a portfolio of four solar projects located in Fresno County, California, that were under construction. Completed in 2018, the facilities were sold to a subsidiary of Con Ed in December 2018, as we discuss below.
Sempra South American Utilities
Compañía Transmisora del Norte Grande S.A.
On December 18, 2018, Chilquinta Energía acquired a 100% interest in Compañía Transmisora del Norte Grande S.A. through a sales and purchase agreement with AES Gener S.A. and its subsidiary Sociedad Eléctrica Angamos S.A. We completed the acquisition for a purchase price of $226 million and paid $208 million (net of $18 million cash acquired) with available cash on hand at our former Sempra South American Utilities segment, which is presented in discontinued operations.
We accounted for this business combination using the acquisition method of accounting. At the acquisition date, we allocated the $208 million in cash paid to the identifiable assets acquired ($231 million) and liabilities assumed ($43 million) based on their
respective fair values, with the excess recognized as goodwill ($38 million), which are included below in the “Assets Held for Sale in Discontinued Operations” table. We consider the purchase price allocation at the acquisition date to be final.
DIVESTITURES
In June 2018, our board of directors approved a plan to divest certain non-utility natural gas storage assets in the southeast U.S., and all our U.S. wind and U.S. solar assets (collectively, the Assets). As a result, we recorded impairment charges totaling $1.5 billion ($900 million after tax and NCI) in June 2018, which included $1.3 billion ($755 million after tax and NCI) at Sempra LNG, included in Impairment Losses on Sempra Energy’s Consolidated Statements of Operations, and $200 million ($145 million after tax) at Sempra Renewables, included in Equity Earnings on Sempra Energy’s Consolidated Statements of Operations. In December 2018, we reduced the impairment of $1.3 billion recorded at Sempra LNG in June 2018 by $183 million ($126 million after tax and NCI) as a result of the sales agreement for certain storage assets described below, resulting in a total impairment charge of $1.1 billion ($629 million after tax and NCI) for the year ended December 31, 2018. These impairment charges primarily represented an adjustment of the related assets’ carrying values to estimated fair values, less costs to sell when applicable, which we discuss in Notes 6 and 12.
Sempra Renewables
On December 13, 2018, Sempra Renewables completed the sale of the following assets to a subsidiary of Con Ed for cash proceeds of $1.6 billion:
its operating solar assets, including assets that we owned through JVs or through tax equity arrangements (other than those interests held by tax equity investors);
its solar and battery storage development projects; and
its 50% interest in the Broken Bow 2 wind generation facility.
In 2018, we recognized a pretax gain of $513 million ($367 million after tax) in Gain on Sale of Assets on Sempra Energy’s Consolidated Statement of Operations.
The following table summarizes the deconsolidation of these subsidiaries in 2018.
DECONSOLIDATION OF SUBSIDIARIES
(Dollars in millions)
 
Certain subsidiaries of Sempra Renewables
 
At December 13, 2018
Proceeds from sale, net of transaction costs
$
1,585

Cash
(7
)
Restricted cash
(7
)
Other current assets
(14
)
Property, plant and equipment, net
(1,303
)
Other investments
(329
)
Other long-term assets
(24
)
Current liabilities
8

Long-term debt
70

Asset retirement obligations
52

Other long-term liabilities
5

Noncontrolling interests
486

Accumulated other comprehensive income
(9
)
Gain on sale
$
513


On April 22, 2019, Sempra Renewables completed the sale of its remaining wind assets and investments to AEP for $569 million, net of transaction costs, and recorded a $61 million ($45 million after tax and NCI) gain, which is included in Gain on Sale of Assets on the Consolidated Statements of Operations. Upon completion of the sale, remaining nominal business activities at Sempra Renewables were subsumed into Parent and other and the Sempra Renewables segment ceased to exist.
Sempra LNG
On February 7, 2019, Sempra LNG completed the sale of its non-utility natural gas storage assets in the southeast U.S. (comprised of Mississippi Hub and Bay Gas), which we classified as held for sale at December 31, 2018, to an affiliate of ArcLight Capital Partners and received cash proceeds of $322 million, net of transaction costs. In January 2019, Sempra LNG completed the sale of other non-utility assets for $5 million.
DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
On January 25, 2019, our board of directors approved a plan to sell our South American businesses. We determined that these businesses, which previously constituted the Sempra South American Utilities segment, and certain activities associated with those businesses, met the held-for-sale criteria. These businesses are presented as discontinued operations, as the planned sales represent a strategic shift that will have a major effect on our operations and financial results. We do not plan to have significant continuing involvement in or be able to exercise significant influence on the operating or financial policies of these operations after they are sold. Accordingly, the results of operations, financial position and cash flows for these businesses have been reclassified to discontinued operations for all periods presented.
Discontinued operations that were previously in the Sempra South American Utilities segment include our 100% interest in Chilquinta Energía in Chile, our 83.6% interest in Luz del Sur in Peru and our interests in two energy-services companies, Tecnored and Tecsur, which provide electric construction and infrastructure services to Chilquinta Energía and Luz del Sur, respectively, as well as third parties. 
On September 27, 2019, we entered into a Purchase and Sale Agreement with China Yangtze Power International (Hongkong) Co., Limited to sell our equity interests in our Peruvian businesses, including our 83.6% interest in Luz del Sur and its indirect ownership interest in Tecsur, for an aggregate base purchase price of $3.59 billion, subject to customary closing adjustments for working capital and changes in net indebtedness. The sale is subject to various conditions to closing, including approvals from the Peruvian anti-trust authority and the Bermuda Monetary Authority. We expect the sale to close in the first half of 2020.
On October 12, 2019, we entered into a Purchase and Sale Agreement with State Grid International Development Limited to sell our equity interests in our Chilean businesses, including our 100% interest in Chilquinta Energía and Tecnored and our 50% interest in Eletrans, for an aggregate base purchase price of $2.23 billion, subject to customary adjustments for working capital and changes in net indebtedness and other adjustments. Chilquinta Energía also agreed to purchase the remaining 50% interest in Eletrans from Sociedad Austral de Electricidad S.A., contingent on the sale of our Chilean businesses to State Grid International Development Limited. This acquisition by Chilquinta Energía would result in State Grid International Development Limited acquiring 100% of Eletrans, which we do not expect will have a significant economic impact on the sale of our Chilean businesses. The sale of our Chilean businesses is subject to various conditions to closing, including approval by the Chilean anti-trust authority, certain Chinese regulatory approvals and approval by the Bermuda Monetary Authority, but is not subject to Chilquinta Energía purchasing the remaining 50% interest in Eletrans. We expect the sale to close in the first half of 2020.
Summarized results from discontinued operations were as follows:
DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
(Dollars in millions)
 
Years ended December 31,
 
2019
 
2018
 
2017
Revenues
$
1,614

 
$
1,585

 
$
1,567

Cost of sales
(1,012
)
 
(1,041
)
 
(1,060
)
Operating expenses
(159
)
 
(206
)
 
(202
)
Interest and other
(11
)
 
(6
)
 
(2
)
Income before income taxes and equity earnings
432

 
332

 
303

Income tax expense
(72
)
 
(145
)
 
(338
)
Equity earnings
3

 
1

 
4

Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of income tax
363

 
188

 
(31
)
Earnings attributable to noncontrolling interests
(35
)
 
(32
)
 
(27
)
Earnings (losses) from discontinued operations attributable to common shares
$
328

 
$
156

 
$
(58
)
The following table summarizes the carrying amounts of the major classes of assets and related liabilities classified as held for sale in discontinued operations.
ASSETS HELD FOR SALE IN DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
(Dollars in millions)
 
 
 
 
December 31,
 
2019
 
2018
Cash and cash equivalents
$
74

 
$
88

Restricted cash(1)
1

 

Accounts receivable, net
303

 
315

Due from unconsolidated affiliates
2

 
2

Inventories
36

 
38

Other current assets
29

 
16

Current assets
$
445

 
$
459

 
 
 
 
Due from unconsolidated affiliates
$
54

 
$
44

Goodwill and other intangible assets
801

 
819

Property, plant and equipment, net
2,618

 
2,357

Other noncurrent assets
40

 
39

Noncurrent assets
$
3,513

 
$
3,259

 
 
 
 
Short-term debt
$
52

 
$
55

Accounts payable
201

 
176

Current portion of long-term debt and finance leases
85

 
29

Other current liabilities
106

 
108

Current liabilities
$
444

 
$
368

 
 
 
 
Long-term debt and finance leases
$
702

 
$
708

Deferred income taxes
284

 
250

Other noncurrent liabilities
66

 
55

Noncurrent liabilities
$
1,052

 
$
1,013

(1) 
Primarily represents funds held in accordance with Peruvian tax law.

At December 31, 2019 and 2018, $551 million and $506 million, respectively, of cumulative foreign currency translation adjustments related to our South American businesses are included in AOCI.