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Jointly-Owned Facilities
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2015
Jointly Owned Utility Plant, Net Ownership Amount [Abstract]  
Jointly-Owned Facilities
Jointly-Owned Facilities
 
APS shares ownership of some of its generating and transmission facilities with other companies.  We are responsible for our share of operating costs which are included in the corresponding operating expenses on our consolidated statement of income. We are also responsible for providing our own financing.  Our share of operating expenses and utility plant costs related to these facilities is accounted for using proportional consolidation.  The following table shows APS’s interests in those jointly-owned facilities recorded on the Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 2015 (dollars in thousands):

 
 
Percent
Owned
 
 
 
Plant in
Service
 
Accumulated
Depreciation
 
Construction
Work in
Progress
Generating facilities:
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 

Palo Verde Units 1 and 3
 
29.1
%
 

 
$
1,744,137

 
$
1,067,376

 
$
22,228

Palo Verde Unit 2 (a)
 
16.8
%
 

 
583,633

 
356,767

 
4,142

Palo Verde Common
 
28.0
%
 
(b)
 
643,201

 
231,609

 
64,069

Palo Verde Sale Leaseback
 
 

 
(a)
 
351,050

 
233,665

 

Four Corners Generating Station
 
63.0
%
 

 
857,555

 
577,321

 
77,317

Navajo Generating Station Units 1, 2 and 3
 
14.0
%
 

 
274,640

 
168,132

 
4,460

Cholla common facilities (c)
 
63.3
%
 
(b)
 
158,623

 
53,777

 
1,390

Transmission facilities:
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 

ANPP 500kV System
 
33.4
%
 
 (b)
 
109,348

 
36,576

 
1,594

Navajo Southern System
 
22.7
%
 
(b)
 
62,139

 
19,361

 
397

Palo Verde — Yuma 500kV System
 
19.3
%
 
(b)
 
14,043

 
5,226

 
133

Four Corners Switchyards
 
49.8
%
 
 (b)
 
38,420

 
9,833

 
1,687

Phoenix — Mead System
 
17.1
%
 
(b)
 
39,089

 
13,173

 
151

Palo Verde — Estrella 500kV System
 
50.0
%
 
(b)
 
89,832

 
18,359

 
1,008

Morgan — Pinnacle Peak System
 
64.6
%
 
 (b)
 
129,855

 
11,087

 
2,592

Round Valley System
 
50.0
%
 
(b)
 
703

 
286

 

Palo Verde — Morgan System
 
87.7
%
 
(b)
 
12

 

 
133,813

Hassayampa - North Gila System
 
80.0
%
 
(b)
 
164,854

 
1,159

 

Cholla 500 Switchyard
 
85.7
%
 
(b)
 
547

 
15

 

Saguaro 500 Switchyard
 
75.0
%
 
(b)
 
773

 
26

 


(a)
See Note 18.
(b)
Weighted-average of interests.
(c)
PacifiCorp owns Cholla Unit 4 and APS operates the unit for PacifiCorp.  The common facilities at Cholla are jointly-owned.