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Electricity Purchase Agreements (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020
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) | 2021 |  | 2022 |  | 2023 |  | 2024 |  | 2025 |  | All Years Thereafter
Con Edison | $141 |  | $106 |  | $68 |  | $53 |  | $54 |  | $487
CECONY | 138 |  | 106 |  | 68 |  | 53 |  | 54 |  | 487
Summary of Capacity, Energy and Other Fixed Payments | The company’s payments under the significant terms of the agreements for capacity, energy and other fixed payments in 2020, 2019 and 2018 were as follows:
| For the Years Ended December 31,
(Millions of Dollars) | 2020 |  | 2019 |  | 2018
Indian Point (a) | $— |  |  | $— |  | $6
Astoria Generating Company (b) | 26 |  | 116 |  | 179
Brooklyn Navy Yard (c) | 113 |  | 115 |  | 124
Cogen Technologies | — |  |  | — |  | 9
Total | $139 |  | $231 |  | $318
(a) Contract term ended in 2018. (b) Capacity purchase agreements with terms ending in 2020 and 2023. (c) Contract for plant output, which started in 1996 and ends in 2036.

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