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Electricity Purchase Agreements (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2019
Regulated Operations [Abstract] |
Summary of Estimated Capacity and Other Fixed Payments | The future capacity and other fixed payments under the electricity purchase agreements are estimated to be as follows:
(Millions of Dollars) | 2020 |  | 2021 |  | 2022 |  | 2023 |  | 2024 |  | All Years Thereafter
Con Edison | $172 |  | $101 |  | $62 |  | $57 |  | $55 |  | $546
CECONY | 169 |  | 99 |  | 62 |  | 57 |  | 55 |  | 546
Summary of Capacity, Energy and Other Fixed Payments | The company’s payments under its agreements for capacity, energy and other fixed payments in 2019, 2018 and 2017 were as follows:
| For the Years Ended December 31,
(Millions of Dollars) | 2019 |  |  | 2018 |  |  | 2017
Indian Point (a) |  | $— |  |  | $6 |  | $211
Linden Cogeneration (b) | — |  |  | — |  |  | 114
Astoria Generating Company (c) | 116 |  | 179 |  | 92
Brooklyn Navy Yard (d) | 115 |  | 124 |  | 117
Cogen Technologies | — |  |  | 9 |  | 18
Total | $231 |  | $318 |  | $552
(a) Contract term ended in 2018. (b) Contract term ended in 2017. (c) Capacity purchase agreements with terms ending in 2020 and 2021. (d) Contract for plant output, which started in 1996 and ends in 2036.

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