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Jointly-Owned Facilities
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2017
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, 2017 (dollars in thousands):

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

 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 

 
Palo Verde Units 1 and 3
 
29.1
%
 

 
$
1,872,104

 
$
1,092,049

 
$
24,257

 
Palo Verde Unit 2 (a)
 
16.8
%
 

 
619,263

 
364,516

 
14,672

 
Palo Verde Common
 
28.0
%
 
(b)
 
726,223

 
262,065

 
46,577

 
Palo Verde Sale Leaseback
 
 

 
(a)
 
351,050

 
241,405

 

 
Four Corners Generating Station
 
63.0
%
 

 
1,196,683

 
568,304

 
240,514

 
Cholla common facilities (c)
 
50.5
%
 

 
180,907

 
69,633

 
1,091

 
Transmission facilities:
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 

 
ANPP 500kV System
 
34.0
%
 
 (b)
 
130,767

 
46,400

 
684

 
Navajo Southern System
 
27.5
%
 
(b)
 
85,299

 
28,915

 
180

 
Palo Verde — Yuma 500kV System
 
18.1
%
 
(b)
 
14,765

 
6,614

 
486

 
Four Corners Switchyards
 
63.2
%
 
 (b)
 
66,386

 
12,605

 
327

 
Phoenix — Mead System
 
17.1
%
 
(b)
 
39,383

 
17,600

 
41

 
Palo Verde — Rudd 500kV System
 
50.0
%
 

 
97,600

 
23,884

 
245

 
Morgan — Pinnacle Peak System
 
64.6
%
 
 (b)
 
117,721

 
14,569

 
1

 
Round Valley System
 
50.0
%
 

 
515

 
141

 

 
Palo Verde — Morgan System
 
90.9
%
 
(b)
 
137,887

 
3,948

 
94,350

 
Hassayampa — North Gila System
 
80.0
%
 

 
142,541

 
6,953

 

 
Cholla 500kV Switchyard
 
85.7
%
 

 
5,243

 
1,312

 
190

 
Saguaro 500kV Switchyard
 
60.0
%
 

 
20,473

 
12,574

 

 
Kyrene — Knox System
 
50.0
%
 

 
578

 
297

 

 
(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.

APS also has a 14% ownership in the Navajo Plant.  In the second quarter of 2017, APS’s remaining net book value of its interest was reclassified from property, plant and equipment to a regulatory asset.  See “Navajo Plant” in Note 3 for more details.
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, 2017, 4CA had plant in service of $141 million, accumulated depreciation of $83 million and construction work in progress of $25 million.