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Mergers, Acquisitions, and Dispositions
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
Business Combinations [Abstract]  
Mergers, Acquisitions and Dispositions
Mergers, Acquisitions and Dispositions (Exelon and Generation)
Acquisition of Handley Generating Station (Exelon and Generation)
On November 7, 2017, EGTP and all of its wholly owned subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, which resulted in Exelon and Generation deconsolidating EGTP's assets and liabilities from their consolidated financial statements in the fourth quarter of 2017. Concurrently with the Chapter 11 filings, Generation entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire one of EGTP's generating plants, the Handley Generating Station, subject to a potential adjustment for fuel oil and assumption of certain liabilities. In the Chapter 11 Filings, EGTP requested that the proposed acquisition of the Handley Generating Station be consummated through a court-approved and supervised sales process. The acquisition was approved by the Bankruptcy Court in January 2018 and closed on April 4, 2018 for a purchase price of $62 million. The Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings were finalized on April 17, 2018, resulting in the ownership of EGTP assets (other than the Handley Generating Station) being transferred to EGTP's lenders.
Acquisition of James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Generating Station (Exelon and Generation)
On March 31, 2017, Generation acquired the 842 MW single-unit James A. FitzPatrick (FitzPatrick) nuclear generating station located in Scriba, New York from Entergy Nuclear FitzPatrick LLC (Entergy) for a total purchase price of $289 million, which consisted of a cash purchase price of $110 million and a net cost reimbursement to and on behalf of Entergy of $179 million. As part of the acquisition agreements, Generation provided nuclear fuel and reimbursed Entergy for incremental costs to prepare for and conduct a plant refueling outage; and Generation reimbursed Entergy for incremental costs to operate and maintain the plant for the period after the refueling outage through the acquisition closing date. These reimbursements covered costs that Entergy otherwise would have avoided had it shut down the plant as originally intended in January 2017. The amounts reimbursed by Generation were offset by FitzPatrick's electricity and capacity sales revenues for this same post-outage period. As part of the transaction, Generation received the FitzPatrick NDT fund assets and assumed the obligation to decommission FitzPatrick. The NRC license for FitzPatrick expires in 2034.
The fair values of FitzPatrick’s assets and liabilities were determined based on significant estimates and assumptions that are judgmental in nature, including projected future cash flows (including timing), discount rates reflecting risk inherent in the future cash flows and future power and fuel market prices. The valuations performed in the first quarter of 2017 to determine the fair value of the FitzPatrick assets acquired and liabilities assumed were updated in the third quarter of 2017. The purchase price allocation is now final.
For the three months ended March 31, 2017, an after-tax bargain purchase gain of $226 million is included within Exelon's and Generation's Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income and primarily reflects differences in strategies between Generation and Entergy for the intended use and ultimate decommissioning of the plant. During the third quarter of 2017, Exelon and Generation recorded an additional after-tax bargain purchase gain of $7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017. The total after-tax bargain purchase gain recorded at Exelon and Generation was $233 million for the twelve months ended December 31, 2017. See Note 13 — Nuclear Decommissioning and Note 14 — Retirement Benefits for additional information regarding the FitzPatrick decommissioning ARO and pension and OPEB updates.

The following table summarizes the acquisition-date fair value of the consideration transferred and the assets and liabilities assumed for the FitzPatrick acquisition by Generation:
Cash paid for purchase price
 
$
110

Cash paid for net cost reimbursement
 
125

Nuclear fuel transfer
 
54

Total consideration transferred
 
$
289

 
 
 
Identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed
 
 
Current assets
 
$
60

Property, plant and equipment
 
298

Nuclear decommissioning trust funds
 
807

Other assets(a)
 
114

Total assets
 
$
1,279

 
 
 
Current liabilities
 
$
6

Nuclear decommissioning ARO
 
444

Pension and OPEB obligations
 
33

Deferred income taxes
 
149

Spent nuclear fuel obligation
 
110

Other liabilities
 
15

Total liabilities
 
$
757

Total net identifiable assets, at fair value
 
$
522

 
 
 
Bargain purchase gain (after-tax)
 
$
233

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(a)
Includes a $110 million asset associated with a contractual right to reimbursement from the New York Power Authority (NYPA), a prior owner of FitzPatrick, associated with the DOE one-time fee obligation. See Note 23-Commitments and Contingencies of the Exelon 2017 Form 10-K for additional background regarding SNF obligations to the DOE.
Exelon and Generation incurred $32 million of merger and integration costs related to FitzPatrick for the three months ended March 31, 2017, which are included within Operating and maintenance expense in Exelon's and Generation's Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income. Exelon and Generation did not incur any merger and integration costs related to FitzPatrick for the three months ended March 31, 2018.
Asset Dispositions
In December 2017, Generation entered into an agreement to sell its interest in an electrical contracting business that primarily installs, maintains and repairs underground and high-voltage cable transmission and distribution systems. As a result, as of December 31, 2017, certain assets and liabilities were classified as held for sale and included in the Other current assets and Other current liabilities balances on Exelon's and Generations' Consolidated Balance Sheet. On February 28, 2018, Generation completed the sale of its interest for $87 million, resulting in a pre-tax gain which is included in Gain on sales of assets and businesses on Exelon's and Generation's Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income for the three months ended March 31, 2018.