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Investments
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
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NOTE 9. INVESTMENTS

Dominion Energy

Equity and Debt Securities

Rabbi Trust Securities

Equity and fixed income securities and cash equivalents in Dominion Energy’s rabbi trusts and classified as trading totaled $122 million and $134 million at December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

Decommissioning Trust Securities

 

Dominion Energy holds equity and fixed income securities, insurance contracts and cash equivalents in nuclear decommissioning trust funds to fund future decommissioning costs for its nuclear plants. Dominion Energy’s decommissioning trust funds are summarized below:

 

 

 

Amortized

Cost

 

 

Total

Unrealized

Gains

 

 

Total

Unrealized

Losses

 

 

Allowance for Credit Losses

 

 

Fair Value

 

(millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 31, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Equity securities:(1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S.

 

$

1,567

 

 

$

3,734

 

 

$

(13

)

 

 

 

 

 

$

5,288

 

Fixed income securities:(2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Corporate debt instruments

 

 

854

 

 

 

32

 

 

 

(5

)

 

$

 

 

 

881

 

Government securities

 

 

1,382

 

 

 

43

 

 

 

(7

)

 

 

 

 

 

1,418

 

Common/collective trust funds

 

 

168

 

 

 

4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

172

 

Insurance contracts

 

 

255

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

255

 

Cash equivalents and other(3)

 

 

9

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

(75

)

 

 

 

 

 

(64

)

Total

 

$

4,235

 

 

$

3,815

 

 

$

(100

)

(4)

$

 

 

$

7,950

 

December 31, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Equity securities:(1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S.

 

$

1,756

 

 

$

2,948

 

 

$

(24

)

 

 

 

 

 

$

4,680

 

Fixed income securities:(2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Corporate debt instruments

 

 

572

 

 

 

58

 

 

 

(1

)

 

$

 

 

 

629

 

Government securities

 

 

1,119

 

 

 

66

 

 

 

(1

)

 

 

 

 

 

1,184

 

Common/collective trust funds

 

 

170

 

 

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

175

 

Insurance contracts

 

 

237

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

237

 

Cash equivalents and other(3)

 

 

(8

)

 

 

4

 

 

 

(1

)

 

 

 

 

 

(5

)

Total

 

$

3,846

 

 

$

3,081

 

 

$

(27

)

(4)

$

 

 

$

6,900

 

 

 

(1)

Unrealized gains and losses on equity securities are included in other income and the nuclear decommissioning trust regulatory liability as discussed in Note 2.

(2)

Unrealized gains and losses on fixed income securities are included in AOCI and the nuclear decommissioning trust regulatory liability as discussed in Note 2. Changes in allowance for credit losses are included in other income.

(3)

Includes pending purchases of securities of $35 million and $49 million at December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

(4)

The fair value of securities in an unrealized loss position was $883 million and $293 million at December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

 

The portion of unrealized gains and losses that relates to equity securities held within Dominion Energy’s nuclear decommissioning trusts is summarized below:

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

2021

 

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

(millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net gains (losses) recognized during the period

 

$

1,072

 

 

$

512

 

 

$

919

 

Less: Net gains recognized during the period

   on securities sold during the period

 

 

(346

)

 

 

(16

)

 

 

(80

)

Unrealized gains (losses) recognized during the period

   on securities still held at period end(1)

 

$

726

 

 

$

496

 

 

$

839

 

(1)

Included in other income and the nuclear decommissioning trust regulatory liability as discussed in Note 2.

The fair value of Dominion Energy’s fixed income securities with readily determinable fair values held in nuclear decommissioning trust funds at December 31, 2021 by contractual maturity is as follows:

 

 

 

 

Amount

 

(millions)

 

 

 

 

Due in one year or less

 

$

331

 

Due after one year through five years

 

 

642

 

Due after five years through ten years

 

 

630

 

Due after ten years

 

 

868

 

Total

 

$

2,471

 

 

Presented below is selected information regarding Dominion Energy’s equity and fixed income securities with readily determinable fair values held in nuclear decommissioning trust funds.

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

2021

 

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

(millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from sales

 

$

3,985

 

 

$

4,278

 

 

$

1,712

 

Realized gains(1)

 

 

441

 

 

 

340

 

 

 

195

 

Realized losses(1)

 

 

91

 

 

 

297

 

 

 

96

 

 

(1)

Includes realized gains and losses recorded to the nuclear decommissioning trust regulatory liability as discussed in Note 2.

Virginia Power

 

Virginia Power holds equity and fixed income securities and cash equivalents in nuclear decommissioning trust funds to fund future decommissioning costs for its nuclear plants. Virginia Power’s decommissioning trust funds are summarized below:

 

 

 

Amortized

Cost

 

 

Total

Unrealized

Gains

 

 

Total

Unrealized

Losses

 

 

Allowance for Credit Losses

 

 

Fair Value

 

(millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 31, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Equity securities:(1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S.

 

$

841

 

 

$

1,720

 

 

$

(11

)

 

 

 

 

 

$

2,550

 

Fixed income securities:(2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Corporate debt instruments

 

 

517

 

 

 

17

 

 

 

(3

)

 

$

 

 

 

531

 

Government securities

 

 

584

 

 

 

16

 

 

 

(2

)

 

 

 

 

 

598

 

Common/collective trust funds

 

 

53

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

53

 

Cash equivalents and other(3)

 

 

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

 

Total

 

$

1,997

 

 

$

1,753

 

 

$

(16

)

(4)

$

 

 

$

3,734

 

December 31, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Equity securities:(1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S.

 

$

929

 

 

$

1,371

 

 

$

(21

)

 

 

 

 

 

$

2,279

 

Fixed income securities:(2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Corporate debt instruments

 

 

315

 

 

 

33

 

 

 

 

 

$

 

 

 

348

 

Government securities

 

 

484

 

 

 

25

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

509

 

Common/collective trust funds

 

 

58

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

58

 

Cash equivalents and other(3)

 

 

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

 

Total

 

$

1,789

 

 

$

1,429

 

 

$

(21

)

(4)

$

 

 

$

3,197

 

 

(1)

Unrealized gains and losses on equity securities are included in other income and the nuclear decommissioning trust regulatory liability as discussed in Note 2

(2)

Unrealized gains and losses on fixed income securities are included in AOCI and the nuclear decommissioning trust regulatory liability as discussed in Note 2. Changes in allowance for credit losses are included in other income.

(3)

Includes pending sales of securities of $5 million at December 31, 2021, and pending purchases of securities of $10 million at December 31, 2020.

(4)

The fair value of securities in an unrealized loss position was $425 million and $142 million at December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

 

 

The portion of unrealized gains and losses that relates to equity securities held within Virginia Power’s nuclear decommissioning trusts is summarized below:

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

2021

 

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

(millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net gains (losses) recognized during the period

 

$

552

 

 

$

224

 

 

$

423

 

Less: Net gains recognized during the period

   on securities sold during the period

 

 

(190

)

 

 

(6

)

 

 

(20

)

Unrealized gains (losses) recognized during the period

   on securities still held at end of period (1)

 

$

362

 

 

$

218

 

 

$

403

 

(1)

Included in other income and the nuclear decommissioning trust regulatory liability as discussed in Note 2.

The fair value of Virginia Power’s fixed income securities with readily determinable fair values held in nuclear decommissioning trust funds at December 31, 2021, by contractual maturity is as follows:

 

 

 

Amount

 

(millions)

 

 

 

 

Due in one year or less

 

$

78

 

Due after one year through five years

 

 

335

 

Due after five years through ten years

 

 

361

 

Due after ten years

 

 

408

 

Total

 

$

1,182

 

Presented below is selected information regarding Virginia Power’s equity and fixed income securities with readily determinable fair values held in nuclear decommissioning trust funds.

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

2021

 

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

(millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from sales

 

$

1,791

 

 

$

884

 

 

$

858

 

Realized gains(1)

 

 

228

 

 

 

88

 

 

 

58

 

Realized losses(1)

 

 

35

 

 

 

68

 

 

 

22

 

 

(1)

Includes realized gains and losses recorded to the nuclear decommissioning trust regulatory liability as discussed in Note 2.

 

EQUITY METHOD INVESTMENTS

Investments that Dominion Energy accounts for under the equity method of accounting are as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investment

 

 

 

Company

 

Ownership%

 

 

Balance

 

 

Description

As of  December 31,

 

 

 

 

 

2021

 

 

2020

 

 

 

(millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cove Point

 

 

50

%

 

$

2,738

 

 

$

2,784

 

 

LNG import/export and storage facility

Atlantic Coast Pipeline

 

 

53

%

 

 

 

(3)

 

 

(3)

Gas transmission system

Wrangler

 

 

15

%

(2)

 

68

 

 

 

74

 

 

Nonregulated retail energy marketing

Align RNG(1)

 

 

50

%

 

 

74

 

 

 

25

 

 

Renewable natural gas

Other

 

various

 

 

 

52

 

 

 

51

 

 

 

Total

 

 

 

 

 

$

2,932

 

 

$

2,934

 

 

 

(1)

Dominion Energy’s unfunded commitment to be made to Align RNG by the end of 2022 was $8 million and $59 million at December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. The commitment was fully paid in January 2022.

(2)

Dominion Energy’s ownership interest became 15% in December 2021, following the sale of 5% of its ownership interest. See discussion below.

(3)

Dominion Energy’s Consolidated Balance Sheets include a liability associated with its investment in Atlantic Coast Pipeline of $113 million and $1.1 billion at December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. See discussion below for additional information.

Dominion Energy recorded equity earnings on its investments of $276 million, $40 million and $8 million in 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively, in its Consolidated Statements of Income. In addition, Dominion Energy recorded equity earnings (losses) of $(20) million, $(2.3) billion and $117 million in 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively, in discontinued operations related to its investment in Atlantic Coast Pipeline.  Dominion Energy received distributions from these investments of $328 million, $102 million and $38 million in 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the net difference between the carrying amount of Dominion Energy’s investments and its share of underlying equity in net assets was $244 million and $213 million, respectively.  At December 31, 2021, these differences are comprised of $27 million of equity method goodwill that is not being amortized, $221 million basis difference from Dominion Energy’s investment in Cove Point, which is being amortized over the useful lives of the underlying assets and a net $(4) million basis difference primarily attributable to an unfunded commitment made to Align RNG. At December 31, 2020, these differences are comprised of $27 million of equity method goodwill that is not being amortized, $227 million basis difference from Dominion Energy’s investment in Cove Point, which is being amortized over the useful lives of the underlying assets and a net $(41) million basis difference primarily attributable to an unfunded commitment made to Align RNG.

Cove Point

Prior to January 2019, Dominion Energy owned all of the common equity interest in Cove Point except for a preferred equity interest held by Dominion Energy Midstream (entitled to the first $50 million of annual cash distributions by Cove Point), in which Dominion Energy owned a controlling financial interest and consolidated. As discussed in Note 20, Dominion Energy acquired all of the outstanding partnership interests of Dominion Energy Midstream not owned by Dominion Energy in January 2019. In December 2019, Dominion Energy closed on an agreement to sell a 25% noncontrolling limited partnership interest in Cove Point. In November 2020, in conjunction with the GT&S Transaction, Dominion Energy sold 100% of its general partner interest and 25% of the total limited partner interest in Cove Point.  Dominion Energy retained a 50% noncontrolling limited partnership interest in Cove Point which is accounted for as an equity method investment as Dominion Energy has the ability to exercise significant influence over, but not control, Cove Point. See Note 3 for further information regarding the sales of interests in Cove Point.

Income before income taxes recorded by Cove Point for 2021, 2020 and 2019 was $528 million, $511 million and $471 million, respectively. For the periods prior to closing of the GT&S Transaction, earnings attributable to Dominion Energy are presented in discontinued operations. Subsequent to the closing of the GT&S Transaction, earnings attributable to Dominion Energy are presented within earnings from equity method investees in its Consolidated Statements of Income. In 2020, earnings attributable to Dominion Energy of $40 million are presented within earnings from equity method investees in its Consolidated Statements of Income.

Dominion Energy recorded distributions from Cove Point of $300 million and $70 million in 2021 and 2020 (after the date of disposal), respectively. Dominion Energy made no contributions to Cove Point in 2021 or 2020 (after the date of disposal).

All activity relating to Dominion Energy’s noncontrolling interest in Cove Point is recorded within Contracted Assets.  See Note 3 for further information regarding the GT&S Transaction.  

Atlantic Coast Pipeline

In September 2014, Dominion Energy, along with Duke Energy and Southern, announced the formation of Atlantic Coast Pipeline for the purpose of constructing an approximately 600-mile natural gas pipeline running from West Virginia through Virginia to North Carolina. Subsidiaries and affiliates of Dominion Energy, Duke Energy and Southern had planned to be customers of the pipeline under 20-year contracts.

In March 2020, Dominion Energy completed the acquisition from Southern of its 5% membership interest in Atlantic Coast Pipeline and its 100% ownership interest in Pivotal LNG, Inc., for $184 million in aggregate, subject to certain purchase price adjustments. Pivotal LNG, Inc. includes a 50% noncontrolling interest in JAX LNG.  Following completion of the acquisition, Dominion Energy owns a 53% noncontrolling membership interest in Atlantic Coast Pipeline with Duke Energy owning the remaining interest.  

Atlantic Coast Pipeline continues to be accounted for as an equity method investment as the power to direct the activities most significant to Atlantic Coast Pipeline is shared with Duke Energy.  As a result, Dominion Energy has the ability to exercise significant influence, but not control, over the investee.

The Atlantic Coast Pipeline Project had been the subject of challenges in federal courts including, among others, challenges of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline Project’s biological opinion and incidental take statement, permits providing right of way crossings of certain federal lands, the Army Corps of Engineers 404 permit, the air permit for a compressor station at Buckingham, Virginia, and the FERC order approving the CPCN. Each of these challenges alleged non-compliance on the part of federal and state permitting authorities and adverse ecological consequences if the Atlantic Coast Pipeline Project was permitted to proceed. Since December 2018, notable developments in these challenges included a stay in December 2018 issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the same court’s July 2019 vacatur of the biological opinion and incidental take statement (which stay and subsequent vacatur halted most project construction activity), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit decisions vacating the permits to cross certain federal forests and the air permit for a compressor station at Buckingham, Virginia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit’s remand to the Army Corps of Engineers of Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s Huntington District 404 verification and the U.S.

Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit’s remand to the National Park Service of Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s Blue Ridge Parkway right-of-way. In June 2019, the Solicitor General of the U.S. and Atlantic Coast Pipeline filed petitions requesting that the Supreme Court of the U.S. hear the case regarding the Appalachian Trail crossing and in June 2020, the Supreme Court of the U.S. ruled in favor of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, reversing the lower court’s decision and remanding the case back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

The project also faced new and serious challenges from uncertainty related to NWP 12, specifically, from the decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana in April 2020 vacating an NWP 12 issued by the Army Corps of Engineers, including among other things gas pipelines, followed by a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruling in May 2020 denying a stay of that decision. In July 2020, the Supreme Court of the U.S. issued an order allowing other new oil and gas pipeline projects to use the NWP 12 process pending appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; however, that did not decrease the uncertainty associated with an eventual ruling.  The Montana district court decision was viewed as likely to prompt similar challenges in other federal circuit courts related to permits issued under NWP 12, including for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline Project.

In July 2020, as a result of ongoing permitting delays, growing legal uncertainties and the need to incur significant capital expenditures to maintain project timing before such uncertainties could be resolved, Dominion Energy and Duke Energy announced the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline Project.

Dominion Energy recorded equity method earnings (losses) of $(2.3) billion ($(1.8) billion after-tax) for the year ended December 31, 2020, as a result of the determination of the probable abandonment of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline Project in June 2020, and $(20) million ($(14) million after-tax) and $117 million ($118 million after-tax) for the year ended December 31, 2021 and 2019, respectively. In connection with Dominion Energy’s decision to sell substantially all of its gas transmission and storage operations, Dominion Energy has reflected the results of its equity method investment in Atlantic Coast Pipeline as discontinued operations in its Consolidated Statements of Income. As a result of its share of equity losses exceeding its investment Dominion Energy’s Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 2021 and 2020 includes a liability of $113 million and $1.1 billion, respectively, which reflects Dominion Energy’s obligations to Atlantic Coast Pipeline related to its credit facility, through February 2021, and AROs.  

In October 2017, Dominion Energy entered into a guarantee agreement to support a portion of Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s obligation under a $3.4 billion revolving credit facility with a stated maturity date of October 2021. In July 2020, the capacity of the revolving credit facility was reduced from $3.4 billion to $1.9 billion.  In February 2021, Atlantic Coast Pipeline repaid the outstanding borrowed amounts and terminated its revolving credit facility.  Concurrently, Dominion Energy’s related guarantee agreement to support its portion of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s borrowings was also terminated.  As of December 31, 2020, Atlantic Coast Pipeline had borrowed $1.8 billion against the revolving credit facility. Dominion Energy’s Consolidated Balance Sheets include a liability of $6 million associated with this guarantee agreement at December 31, 2020. The $1.1 billion liability at December 31, 2020 discussed above includes a $48 million adjustment related to this guarantee agreement that is reflected within equity as a cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle upon adoption of the new credit loss standard in January 2020.

Dominion Energy recorded contributions of $965 million, $107 million and $186 million during 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively, to Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

Dominion Energy expects to incur additional losses from Atlantic Coast Pipeline as it completes wind-down activities.  While Dominion Energy is unable to precisely estimate the amounts to be incurred by Atlantic Coast Pipeline, the portion of such amounts attributable to Dominion Energy is not expected to be material to Dominion Energy’s results of operations, financial position or statement of cash flows.

DETI provided services to Atlantic Coast Pipeline which totaled $49 million and $103 million in 2020 (prior to closing of the GT&S Transaction) and 2019, respectively, included in discontinued operations in Dominion Energy’s Consolidated Statements of Income.

All activity relating to Atlantic Coast Pipeline is recorded within the Corporate and Other segment.

Blue Racer

In December 2018, Dominion Energy sold its 50% limited partnership interest in Blue Racer for up-front cash consideration of $1.05 billion and additional consideration of $150 million, subject to increase for interest costs effective March 2019, payable upon the purchaser’s availability of cash. In the first quarter of 2019, Dominion Energy received $151 million of additional consideration, including applicable interest, in connection with this sale. In addition, the purchaser agreed to pay additional consideration contingent upon the achievement of certain financial performance milestones of Blue Racer from 2019 through 2021. Blue Racer did not achieve the 2019, 2020 or 2021 financial performance milestones set forth in the sale agreement.

All activity relating to Blue Racer is recorded within the Corporate and Other segment.  

Fowler Ridge

In September 2020, Dominion Energy sold its 50% noncontrolling partnership interest in Fowler Ridge to BP and terminated an affiliate’s long-term power, capacity and renewable energy credit contract with Fowler Ridge for a net payment by Dominion Energy of $150 million. The $150 million payment was allocated between the contract termination and sale based on the relative fair value of each using an income approach. The fair value determinations for the payment allocations are considered Level 3 fair value measurements due to the use of significant judgmental and unobservable inputs, including the amount of future cash flows and discount rate reflecting risks inherent in the future cash flows and market prices. Dominion Energy recognized a loss of $221 million ($165 million after-tax) on the contract termination, included in impairment of assets and other charges in its Consolidated Statements of Income for the year ended December 31, 2020, reflected in the Corporate and Other segment.

 

All activity relating to Fowler Ridge, unless otherwise specified, is recorded within Contracted Assets.

Wrangler

In September 2019, Dominion Energy entered into an agreement to form Wrangler, a partnership with Interstate Gas Supply, Inc. Wrangler will operate a nonregulated natural gas retail energy marketing business with Dominion Energy contributing its nonregulated retail energy marketing operations and Interstate Gas Supply, Inc. contributing cash.  At December 31, 2021 Dominion Energy has a 15% noncontrolling ownership interest in Wrangler, which is accounted for as an equity method investment as Dominion Energy has the ability to exercise significant influence, but not control, over the investee.

The initial contribution, consisting of SEMI, closed in December 2019 for which Dominion Energy received $301 million in cash proceeds and a 20% noncontrolling ownership interest in Wrangler with an initial fair value of $75 million estimated using the market approach. This valuation is considered a Level 2 fair value measurement given that it is based on the agreed-upon sales price. In connection with the transaction, Dominion Energy recorded a gain of $147 million, net of a $73 million write-off of goodwill, presented in losses (gains) on sales of assets, and an associated tax expense of $82 million, in the Consolidated Statements of Income for the year ended December 31, 2019.  

 

The second contribution, consisting of certain nonregulated natural gas retail energy contracts, closed in November 2020 for which Dominion Energy received $74 million in cash proceeds and retained a 20% noncontrolling ownership interest through its ownership interest in Wrangler in the contracts valued at $13 million using the market approach. This valuation is considered a Level 2 fair value measurement given that it is based on the agreed-upon sales price. In connection with the transaction, Dominion Energy recorded a gain of $64 million presented in losses (gains) on sales of assets, and an associated tax expense of $19 million, in the Consolidated Statements of Income for the year ended December 31, 2020.

 

The final contribution, consisting of Dominion Energy’s remaining nonregulated natural gas retail energy marketing operations, closed in December 2021 for which Dominion Energy received $127 million in cash proceeds and retained a 20% noncontrolling ownership interest in Wrangler with an initial fair value of $23 million estimated using the market approach. This valuation is considered a Level 2 fair value measurement given that it is based on the agreed-upon sales price. In connection with the transaction, Dominion Energy recorded a gain of $87 million, net of a $14 million write-off of goodwill, presented in losses (gains) on sales of assets, and an associated tax expense of $32 million, in the Consolidated Statements of Income for the year ended December 31, 2021.

 

Subsequently in December 2021, Dominion Energy sold 5% of its noncontrolling ownership interest in Wrangler to Interstate Gas Supply, Inc. for $33 million and recorded a gain of $10 million, presented in other income, and an associated tax expense of $3 million, in the Consolidated Statements of Income for the year ended December 31, 2021.

 

At December 31, 2020, $63 million of assets and $15 million of liabilities associated with the remaining nonregulated retail energy marketing operations contributed to Wrangler in December 2021 were classified as held for sale and were included in current assets held for sale and current liabilities held for sale on Dominion Energy’s Consolidated Balance Sheets, respectively.  The related disposal group is primarily comprised of customer receivables, goodwill, inventories and account payables.

 

All activity relating to Wrangler is recorded within the Corporate and Other segment.

 

 

Dominion Privatization

 

In February 2022, Dominion Energy entered into an agreement to form Dominion Privatization, a partnership with Patriot. Dominion Privatization, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, will maintain and operate electric and gas distribution infrastructure under service concession arrangements with certain U.S. military installations. Under the agreement, Dominion Energy will contribute its existing privatization operations, excluding contracts held by DESC, in South Carolina, Texas, Pennsylvania and Virginia and Patriot will contribute cash. The contribution of the service concession arrangements currently held by Virginia Power requires approval from the Virginia and North Carolina Commissions. Dominion Energy expects to receive cash proceeds totaling $168 million, subject to customary closing adjustments, and a 50% noncontrolling ownership interest in Dominion Privatization following closing of the contributions expected to occur by the end of 2022, contingent on clearance or approval under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act and other customary closing and regulatory conditions. Dominion Energy expects to recognize gains totaling approximately $150 million ($110 million after-tax) upon closing of the contributions. Dominion Energy’s 50% noncontrolling ownership interest in Dominion Privatization will be accounted for as an equity method investment as Dominion Energy has the ability to exercise significant influence, but not control, over the investee.

 

All activity relating to Dominion Privatization will be recorded within Dominion Energy Virginia.