Leases

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2020

Note 14: Leases

The Company has operating and finance leases involving real property, including facilities, utility assets, vehicles, and equipment. Certain operating leases have renewal options ranging from one to 60 years. The exercise of lease renewal options is at the Company’s sole discretion. Renewal options that the Company was reasonably certain to exercise are included in the Company’s right-of-use (“ROU”) assets. Certain operating leases contain the option to purchase the leased property. The operating leases for real property, vehicles and equipment will expire over the next 39 years, six years, and five years, respectively. Certain lease agreements include variable rental payments adjusted periodically for inflation. The Company’s lease agreements do not contain any material residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants.

The Company participates in a number of arrangements with various public entities (“Partners”) in West Virginia. Under these arrangements, the Company transferred a portion of its utility plant to the Partners in exchange for an equal principal amount of Industrial Development Bonds (“IDBs”) issued by the Partners under the Industrial Development and Commercial Development Bond Act. The Company leased back the utility plant under agreements for a period of 30 to 40 years. The Company has recorded these agreements as finance leases in property, plant and equipment, as ownership of the assets will revert back to the Company at the end of the lease term. The carrying value of the finance lease assets was $147 million as of September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019. The Company determined that the finance lease obligations and the investments in IDBs meet the conditions for offsetting, and as such, are reported net on the Consolidated Balance Sheets and excluded from the finance lease disclosure presented below.

The Company also enters into O&M agreements with the Partners. The Company pays an annual fee for use of the Partners’ assets in performing under the O&M agreements. The O&M agreements are recorded as operating leases, and future annual use fees of $4 million in 2020 through 2024, and $56 million thereafter, are included in operating lease ROU assets and operating lease liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets.

Rental expenses under operating and finance leases were $3 million and $10 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, respectively.

Presented in the table below is supplemental cash flow information:


	For the Three Months Ended September 30, 2020		For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2020
Cash paid for amounts in lease liabilities (a)	$	3	$	11
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for new operating lease liabilities	1		2

(a)Includes operating and financing cash flows from operating and finance leases.

Presented in the table below are the weighed-average remaining lease terms and the weighted-average discount rates for finance and operating leases:


	As of September 30, 2020
Weighted-average remaining lease term:
Finance lease	6 years
Operating leases	19 years

Weighted-average discount rate:
Finance lease	12	%
Operating leases	4	%

Presented in the table below are the future maturities of lease liabilities at September 30, 2020:


	Amount
2020	$	3
2021	13
2022	12
2023	8
2024	7
Thereafter	101
Total lease payments	144
Imputed interest	(50)
Total	$	94

Leases