Property, Plant And Equipment

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2013

Property, Plant and Equipment [Abstract]

PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

The balances of the major classifications of property, plant and equipment are detailed in the following table as of December 31 (dollars in thousands):



	2013		2012
Avista Utilities:
Electric production	$	1,141,790	$	1,112,670
Electric transmission	569,056		546,019
Electric distribution	1,284,428		1,217,827
Electric construction work-in-progress (CWIP) and other	276,582		244,761
Electric total	3,271,856		3,121,277
Natural gas underground storage	41,248		40,890
Natural gas distribution	762,044		704,839
Natural gas CWIP and other	47,751		57,745
Natural gas total	851,043		803,474
Common plant (including CWIP)	327,888		272,991
Total Avista Utilities	4,450,787		4,197,742
Ecova (1)	31,865		30,138
Other (1)	20,132		22,690
Total	$	4,502,784	$	4,250,570

(1)

Included in other property and investments-net on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Accumulated depreciation was $26.4 million as of December 31, 2013 and $23.4 million as of December 31, 2012 for Ecova and $11.4 million as of December 31, 2013 and $13.7 million as of December 31, 2012 for the other businesses. The decrease in accumulated depreciation for the other businesses was due to the retirement of a fully depreciated asset during 2013.

- Definition

The entire disclosure for long-lived, physical assets used in the normal conduct of business and not intended for resale. Includes, but is not limited to, accounting policies and methodology, roll forwards, depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, including composite depreciation, accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, useful lives and method used, income statement disclosures, assets held for sale and public utility disclosures.

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