Impairment, Disposition and Assets and Liabilities Held for Sale

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2017

Impairment, Disposition and Assets and Liabilities Held for Sale

IMPAIRMENT, DISPOSITION AND ASSETS AND LIABILITIES HELD FOR SALE

The disclosures in this note apply to AEP only.

IMPAIRMENT

Merchant Generating Assets (Generation & Marketing Segment)

In September 2016, due to AEP’s ongoing evaluation of strategic alternatives for its merchant generation assets, declining forecasts of future energy and capacity prices, and a decreasing likelihood of cost recovery through regulatory proceedings or legislation in the state of Ohio providing for the recovery of AEP’s existing Ohio merchant generation assets, AEP performed an impairment analysis at the unit level on the remaining merchant generation assets in accordance with accounting guidance for impairments of long-lived assets.

In the first quarter of 2017, AEP recorded an additional pretax impairment of $4 million in Asset Impairments and Other Related Charges on AEP’s statements of income related to the Merchant Coal-fired Generation Assets. An additional $7 million pretax impairment recorded in Asset Impairments and Other Related Charges on AEP’s statements of income was related to the agreement to sell Zimmer Plant. The sale is further discussed in the “Assets and Liabilities Held for Sale” section of this note.

DISPOSITION

Gavin, Waterford, Darby, and Lawrenceburg Plants (Generation & Marketing Segment)

In September 2016, AEP signed a Purchase and Sale Agreement to sell AGR’s Gavin, Waterford and Darby plants as well as AEGCo’s Lawrenceburg plant totaling 5,329 MWs of competitive generation assets to a nonaffiliated party. The sale closed in January 2017 for $2.2 billion, which were recorded in Investing Activities on the statement of cash flows. The net proceeds from the transaction are $1.2 billion in cash after taxes, repayment of debt associated with these assets including a make whole payment related to the debt, payment of a coal contract associated with one of the plants and transaction fees. The sale resulted in a pretax gain of $227 million that was recorded in Gain on Sale of Merchant Generation Assets on AEP’s statement of income.

A coal purchase and sale agreement acquired by the nonaffiliated party is subject to an AEP guarantee in favor of the coal supplier, ensuring payments under the agreement until December 2017. The maximum potential amount of payments required under the guarantee was $34 million.

ASSETS AND LIABILITIES HELD FOR SALE

Zimmer, Gavin, Waterford, Darby and Lawrenceburg Plants (Generation & Marketing Segment)

In February 2017, AEP signed an agreement to sell its 25.4% ownership share of Zimmer Plant to a nonaffiliated party. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2017, subject to FERC approval.

In the third quarter of 2016, management determined Gavin, Waterford, Darby and Lawrenceburg Plants met the classification of held for sale. Accordingly, the four plants’ assets and liabilities have been recorded as Assets Held for Sale and Liabilities Held for Sale on AEP’s balance sheet as of December 31, 2016 and as shown in the table below. In the first quarter of 2017, management determined Zimmer Plant met the classification of held for sale. The assets and liabilities have been recorded as Assets Held for Sale and Liabilities Held for Sale on AEP’s balance sheet as of March 31, 2017 and as shown in the table below. The Income before Income Tax Expense and Equity Earnings of the five plants was approximately $47 million (excluding the $227 million pretax gain) and $112 million for the three months ended March 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively.

	March 31,		December 31,
	2017		2016
Assets:	(in millions)
Fuel	$	6.9	$	145.5
Materials and Supplies	0.1		49.4
Property, Plant and Equipment - Net	0.8		1,756.2
Other Class of Assets That Are Not Major	1.9		0.1
Total Assets Classified as Held for Sale on the Balance Sheets	$	9.7	$	1,951.2
Liabilities:
Long-term Debt	$	—	$	134.8
Waterford Plant Upgrade Liability	—		52.2
Asset Retirement Obligations	1.9		36.7
Other Classes of Liabilities That Are Not Major	1.6		12.2
Total Liabilities Classified as Held for Sale on the Balance Sheets	$	3.5	$	235.9