Discontinued Operations

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2015

Discontinued Operations and Disposal Groups [Abstract]

Discontinued Operations

Discontinued Operations

EME Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

In December 2012, EME and certain of its wholly-owned subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. The Amended Plan of Reorganization, including the EME Settlement Agreement, was completed on April 1, 2014 with the sale of substantially all of EME's assets to NRG Energy, Inc. and the transactions called for in the EME Settlement Agreement, including an initial cash payment to the Reorganization Trust of $225 million in April 2014. For further discussion of the EME Settlement Agreement, see the 2014 Form 10-K, "Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements—Note 15."

In August 2014, Edison International entered into an amendment of the EME Settlement Agreement that finalized the remaining matters related to the EME Settlement including setting the amount of the two installment payments. Edison International made an installment payment of $204 million on September 30, 2015 and will make the remaining $214 million payment in September 2016.

Income from discontinued operations, net of tax, was $43 million for the three- and nine-month periods in 2015 compared to a loss of $16 million and income of $146 million for the respective periods in 2014. The 2015 income was due to $27 million of income tax benefits from revised estimates of tax benefits based on filing of the 2014 tax returns in the third quarter of 2015 and $16 million in insurance recoveries ($28 million pre-tax) related to the EME bankruptcy. The 2014 loss and income were due to the completion of the Amended Plan of Reorganization, including transactions recorded in the first nine months of 2014 and other impacts of the EME Settlement. The nine months of 2014 also reflects a $22 million income tax loss from revised estimates of the tax impact of a tax deconsolidation of EME as originally contemplated prior to the EME Settlement.