Organization and Basis of Presentation

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2020

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Index to Combined Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

The unaudited notes to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements that follow are a combined presentation. The following list indicates the registrants to which the footnotes apply.

Applicable Notes

Registrant

Duke Energy

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Duke Energy Carolinas

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Progress Energy

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Duke Energy Progress

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Duke Energy Florida

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Duke Energy Ohio

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Duke Energy Indiana

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Piedmont

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Tables within the notes may not sum across due to (i) Progress Energy's consolidation of Duke Energy Progress, Duke Energy Florida and other subsidiaries that are not registrants and (ii) subsidiaries that are not registrants but included in the consolidated Duke Energy balances.

ORGANIZATION AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION

BASIS OF PRESENTATION

These Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Regulation S-X. Accordingly, these Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements do not include all information and notes required by GAAP for annual financial statements and should be read in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements in the Duke Energy Registrants’ combined Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019.

The information in these combined notes relates to each of the Duke Energy Registrants as noted in the Index to Combined Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. However, none of the registrants make any representations as to information related solely to Duke Energy or the subsidiaries of Duke Energy other than itself.

These Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements, in the opinion of the respective companies’ management, reflect all normal recurring adjustments necessary to fairly present the financial position and results of operations of each of the Duke Energy Registrants. Amounts reported in Duke Energy’s interim Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and each of the Subsidiary Registrants’ interim Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income are not necessarily indicative of amounts expected for the respective annual periods due to effects of seasonal temperature variations on energy consumption, regulatory rulings, timing of maintenance on electric generating units, changes in mark-to-market valuations, changing commodity prices and other factors.

In preparing financial statements that conform to GAAP, management must make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the reported amounts of revenues and expenses and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

BASIS OF CONSOLIDATION

These Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements include, after eliminating intercompany transactions and balances, the accounts of the Duke Energy Registrants and subsidiaries or VIEs where the respective Duke Energy Registrants have control. See Note 11 for additional information on VIEs. These Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements also reflect the Duke Energy Registrants’ proportionate share of certain jointly owned generation and transmission facilities.

COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on global health and economic environments. In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, and President Trump proclaimed that the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States constitutes a national emergency. The extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic will impact the Duke Energy Registrants during 2020 and beyond is uncertain, and the Duke Energy Registrants are monitoring developments closely. The company incurred approximately $34 million and $40 million of incremental COVID-19 costs for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, respectively, included in Operation, maintenance and other on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. These costs were primarily bad debt expense, personal protective equipment and cleaning supplies. Further the company experienced approximately another $25 million of waived late payment fees for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020. See Notes 3, 5, 11, 12 and 15 for additional information as well as steps taken to mitigate the impacts to our business and customers from the COVID-19 pandemic.

OTHER CURRENT ASSETS

Included in Other within Current Assets on the Piedmont Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets are income taxes receivable of $22 million and $14 million as of June 30, 2020, and December 31, 2019, respectively, and prepaid assets of $19 million and $3 million as of June 30, 2020, and December 31, 2019, respectively. The income taxes receivable relates to increases of net operating losses for Piedmont and intercompany tax settlements. The prepaid assets relate to natural gas storage injections and inventory transfers classified as prepaid assets until winter season when the gas is moved to Inventory on the Piedmont Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets under certain agreements.

OTHER CURRENT LIABILITIES

During the second quarter of 2020, Duke Energy recorded a current liability related to the abandonment of ACP within Current Liabilities in the Gas Utilities and Infrastructure segment. The liability represents Duke Energy's obligation to fund ACP's obligations of outstanding debt and satisfy ARO requirements to restore construction sites. As a result, Liabilities associated with unconsolidated affiliates is $920 million, and exceeds 5% of Total current liabilities on the Duke Energy Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of June 30, 2020. See Notes 3, 4 and 11 for further information.

NONCONTROLLING INTEREST

Duke Energy maintains a controlling financial interest in certain less than wholly owned nonregulated subsidiaries. As a result, Duke Energy consolidates these subsidiaries and presents the third-party investors' portion of Duke Energy's net income (loss), net assets and comprehensive income (loss) as noncontrolling interest. Noncontrolling interest is included as a component of equity on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet.

Several operating agreements of Duke Energy's subsidiaries with noncontrolling interest are subject to allocations of earnings, tax attributes and cash flows in accordance with contractual agreements that vary throughout the lives of the subsidiaries. Therefore, Duke Energy and the other investors' (the owners) interests in the subsidiaries are not fixed, and the subsidiaries apply the Hypothetical Liquidation at Book Value (HLBV) method in allocating income or loss and other comprehensive income or loss (all measured on a pretax basis) to the owners. The HLBV method measures the amounts that each owner would hypothetically claim at each balance sheet reporting date, including tax benefits realized by the owners over the IRS recapture period, upon a hypothetical liquidation of the subsidiary at the net book value of its underlying assets. The change in the amount that each owner would hypothetically receive at the reporting date compared to the amount it would have received on the previous reporting date represents the amount of income or loss allocated to each owner for the reporting period. The following table presents cash received for the sale of noncontrolling interest to tax equity members and allocated losses to noncontrolling tax equity members utilizing the HLBV method for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, and 2019.



	Three Months Ended				Six Months Ended
(in millions)	June 30, 2020		June 30, 2019		June 30, 2020		June 30, 2019
Cash received for the sale of noncontrolling interest to tax equity members	$	60	$	187	$	163	$	193
Allocated losses to noncontrolling tax equity members utilizing the HLBV method	79		83		128		90

Other operating agreements of Duke Energy's subsidiaries with noncontrolling interest allocate profit and loss based on their pro rata shares of the ownership interest in the respective subsidiary. Therefore, Duke Energy allocates net income or loss and other comprehensive income or loss of these subsidiaries to the owners based on their pro rata shares.

CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH

Duke Energy, Progress Energy and Duke Energy Florida have restricted cash balances related primarily to collateral assets, escrow deposits and VIEs. See Notes 9 and 11 for additional information. Restricted cash amounts are included in Other within Current Assets and Other Noncurrent Assets on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. The following table presents the components of cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash included in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.



	June 30, 2020						December 31, 2019
					Duke						Duke
	Duke		Progress		Energy		Duke		Progress		Energy
	Energy		Energy		Florida		Energy		Energy		Florida
Current Assets
Cash and cash equivalents	$	341	$	78	$	20	$	311	$	48	$	17
Other	193		31		31		222		39		39
Other Noncurrent Assets
Other	107		102		—		40		39		—
Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash	$	641	$	211	$	51	$	573	$	126	$	56

INVENTORY

Provisions for inventory write-offs were not material at June 30, 2020, and December 31, 2019. The components of inventory are presented in the tables below.



	June 30, 2020
			Duke				Duke		Duke		Duke		Duke
	Duke		Energy		Progress		Energy		Energy		Energy		Energy
(in millions)	Energy		Carolinas		Energy		Progress		Florida		Ohio		Indiana		Piedmont
Materials and supplies	$	2,220	$	769	$	1,014	$	682	$	333	$	83	$	254	$	5
Coal	776		271		257		189		68		13		234		—
Natural gas, oil and other fuel	293		40		195		109		85		33		1		24
Total inventory	$	3,289	$	1,080	$	1,466	$	980	$	486	$	129	$	489	$	29



	December 31, 2019
			Duke				Duke		Duke		Duke		Duke
	Duke		Energy		Progress		Energy		Energy		Energy		Energy
(in millions)	Energy		Carolinas		Energy		Progress		Florida		Ohio		Indiana		Piedmont
Materials and supplies	$	2,297	$	768	$	1,038	$	686	$	351	$	79	$	318	$	5
Coal	586		187		186		138		48		15		198		—
Natural gas, oil and other fuel	349		41		199		110		90		41		1		67
Total inventory	$	3,232	$	996	$	1,423	$	934	$	489	$	135	$	517	$	72

NEW ACCOUNTING STANDARDS

The following new accounting standard was adopted by the Duke Energy Registrants in 2020.

Current Expected Credit Losses. In June 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued new accounting guidance for credit losses. Duke Energy adopted the new accounting guidance for credit losses effective January 1, 2020, using the modified retrospective method of adoption, which does not require restatement of prior year results. Duke Energy did not adopt any practical expedients.

Duke Energy recognizes allowances for credit losses based on management's estimate of losses expected to be incurred over the lives of certain assets or guarantees. Management monitors credit quality, changes in expected credit losses and the appropriateness of the allowance for credit losses on a forward-looking basis. Management reviews the risk of loss periodically as part of the existing assessment of collectability of receivables.

Duke Energy reviews the credit quality of its counterparties as part of its regular risk management process and requires credit enhancements, such as deposits or letters of credit, as appropriate and as allowed by regulators.

Duke Energy recorded cumulative effects of changes in accounting principles related to the adoption of new credit loss standard, for allowances for credit losses of trade and other receivables, insurance receivables and financial guarantees. These amounts are included in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets in Receivables, Receivables of VIEs, Other Noncurrent Assets and Other Noncurrent Liabilities. See Notes 4 and 12 for more information.

Duke Energy recorded an adjustment for the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle due to the adoption of this standard on January 1, 2020, as shown in the table below:



	January 1, 2020
			Duke				Duke		Duke
	Duke		Energy		Progress		Energy		Energy
(in millions)	Energy		Carolinas		Energy		Progress		Florida		Piedmont
Total pretax impact to Retained Earnings	$	120	$	16	$	2	$	1	$	1	$	1

The following new accounting standard has been issued but not yet adopted by the Duke Energy Registrants as of June 30, 2020.

Reference Rate Reform. In March 2020, the FASB issued new accounting guidance for reference rate reform. This guidance is elective and provides expedients to facilitate financial reporting for the anticipated transition away from the London Inter-bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and other interbank reference rates by the end of 2021. The optional expedients are effective for modification of existing contracts or new arrangements executed between March 12, 2020, through December 31, 2022.

Duke Energy has variable-rate debt and manages interest rate risk by entering into financial contracts including interest rate swaps that are generally indexed to LIBOR. Impacted financial arrangements extending beyond 2021 may require contractual amendment or termination to fully adapt to a post-LIBOR environment. Duke Energy is assessing these financial arrangements and is evaluating the use of optional expedients outlined in the new accounting guidance. Alternative index provisions are also being assessed and incorporated into new financial arrangements that extend beyond 2021. The full outcome of the transition away from LIBOR cannot be determined at this time, but is not expected to have a material impact on the financial statements.