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Jointly-Owned Facilities
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
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 Statements 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, 2016 (dollars in thousands):

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

 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 

 
Palo Verde Units 1 and 3
 
29.1
%
 

 
$
1,770,324

 
$
1,080,072

 
$
17,615

 
Palo Verde Unit 2 (a)
 
16.8
%
 

 
581,572

 
360,757

 
9,717

 
Palo Verde Common
 
28.0
%
 
(b)
 
672,799

 
242,649

 
62,479

 
Palo Verde Sale Leaseback
 
 

 
(a)
 
351,050

 
237,535

 

 
Four Corners Generating Station
 
63.0
%
 

 
934,837

 
578,924

 
248,072

 
Navajo Generating Station Units 1, 2 and 3
 
14.0
%
 

 
279,629

 
176,931

 
5,761

 
Cholla common facilities (c)
 
63.3
%
 
(b)
 
159,707

 
58,276

 
806

(d)
Transmission facilities:
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 

 
ANPP 500kV System
 
33.6
%
 
 (b)
 
127,970

 
38,610

 
2,291

 
Navajo Southern System
 
22.5
%
 
(b)
 
62,135

 
20,491

 
334

 
Palo Verde — Yuma 500kV System
 
19.0
%
 
(b)
 
13,699

 
5,368

 
408

 
Four Corners Switchyards
 
51.3
%
 
 (b)
 
39,850

 
10,474

 
1,044

 
Phoenix — Mead System
 
17.1
%
 
(b)
 
39,330

 
13,725

 
85

 
Palo Verde — Rudd 500kV System
 
50.0
%
 
(b)
 
91,904

 
19,818

 
227

 
Morgan — Pinnacle Peak System
 
65.2
%
 
 (b)
 
140,374

 
13,557

 

 
Round Valley System
 
50.0
%
 
(b)
 
515

 
127

 

 
Palo Verde — Morgan System
 
85.8
%
 
(b)
 
125,908

 
1,326

 
28,949

 
Hassayampa — North Gila System
 
80.0
%
 
(b)
 
142,541

 
3,231

 

 
Cholla 500kV Switchyard
 
85.7
%
 
(b)
 
5,078

 
1,201

 

 
Saguaro 500kV Switchyard
 
75.0
%
 
(b)
 
20,456

 
12,426

 
2

 

(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.
(d)
Due to the closure of Cholla Unit 2 in 2015, all new Cholla common facilities construction is owned by APS at 50.5%

4CA is a subsidiary that was formed in 2016 as a result of the purchase of El Paso's 7% interest in Four Corners. At December 31, 2016, 4CA had plant in service of $110 million, accumulated depreciation of $79 million and construction work in progress of $30 million.