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Significant Accounting Policies (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2018

Accounting Policies [Abstract]

Schedule of Checks Outstanding but Not Yet Presented for Payment

The following table illustrates the checks outstanding but not yet presented for payment and recorded in accounts payable for the Companies:

At December 31,		2018				2017
(millions)
Dominion Energy		$	35			$	30
Virginia Power			16				17
Dominion Energy Gas			7				7

Reconciliation of Total Cash, Restricted Cash and Equivalents

The following table provides a reconciliation of the total cash, restricted cash and equivalents reported within the Companies’ Consolidated Balance Sheets to the corresponding amounts reported within the Companies’ Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016:

		Cash, Restricted Cash and Equivalents at End/Beginning of Year
		December 31, 2018				December 31, 2017				December 31, 2016				December 31, 2015
(millions)
Dominion Energy
Cash and cash equivalents		$	268			$	120			$	261			$	607
Restricted cash and equivalents(1)			123				65				61				25
Cash, restricted cash and equivalents shown in the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows		$	391			$	185			$	322			$	632
Virginia Power
Cash and cash equivalents		$	29			$	14			$	11			$	18
Restricted cash and equivalents(1)			9				10				—				—
Cash, restricted cash and equivalents shown in the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows		$	38			$	24			$	11			$	18
Dominion Energy Gas
Cash and cash equivalents		$	10			$	4			$	23			$	13
Restricted cash and equivalents(1)			24				26				20				14
Cash, restricted cash and equivalents shown in the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows		$	34			$	30			$	43			$	27

(1) Restricted cash and equivalent balances are presented within other current assets in the Companies’ Consolidated Balance Sheets.

Schedule of Depreciation Rates

The Companies’ average composite depreciation rates on utility property, plant and equipment are as follows:

Year Ended December 31,		2018				2017				2016
(percent)
Dominion Energy
Generation			2.71				2.94				2.83
Transmission			2.54				2.55				2.47
Distribution			2.97				3.00				3.02
Storage			2.40				2.48				2.29
Gas gathering and processing			2.62				2.21				2.66
General and other			4.56				4.89				4.12
Virginia Power
Generation			2.71				2.94				2.83
Transmission			2.52				2.54				2.36
Distribution			3.31				3.32				3.32
General and other			4.52				4.68				3.49
Dominion Energy Gas
Transmission			2.45				2.40				2.43
Distribution			2.41				2.42				2.55
Storage			2.46				2.45				2.19
Gas gathering and processing			3.07				2.42				2.58
General and other			5.59				4.96				4.54

Property, Plant and Equipment

Dominion Energy’s nonutility property, plant and equipment is depreciated using the straight-line method over the following estimated useful lives:

Asset		Estimated Useful Lives
Merchant generation-nuclear			44 years
Merchant generation-other			15-30 years
Nonutility gas gathering and processing			3-50 years
LNG facility			40 years
General and other			5-59 years

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