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Supplemental Cash Flow Information (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2019
Supplemental Cash Flow Information [Abstract] |
Schedule of supplemental cash flow information |
|  | Year Ended December 31
(in millions) |  | 2019 |  | 2018 |  | 2017
Cash paid for interest, net of amount capitalized |  | $ | 485.9 |  |  | $ | 441.5 |  |  | $ | 413.7 |
Cash paid (received) for income taxes, net |  | (24.9 | ) |  | 16.3 |  |  | (5.2 | )
Significant non-cash investing and financing transactions: |  |  |  |  |  |
Accounts payable related to construction costs |  | 159.9 |  |  | 65.9 |  |  | 169.2 |
Capital contributions from noncontrolling interest |  | 21.0 |  |  | — |  |  | — |
Receivable related to corporate-owned life insurance proceeds |  | — |  |  | 7.7 |  |  | — |
Portion of Bostco real estate holdings sale financed with note receivable * |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 7.0 |
* See Note 3, Dispositions, for more information on this sale.
Reconciliation of cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash | The following table reconciles the cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash amounts reported within the balance sheets at December 31 to the total of these amounts shown on the statements of cash flows:
(in millions) |  | 2019 |  | 2018 |  | 2017
Cash and cash equivalents |  | $ | 37.5 |  |  | $ | 84.5 |  |  | $ | 38.9 |
Restricted cash included in other current assets |  | — |  |  | 2.5 |  |  | — |
Restricted cash included in other long term assets |  | 44.8 |  |  | 59.1 |  |  | 19.7 |
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash |  | $ | 82.3 |  |  | $ | 146.1 |  |  | $ | 58.6 |

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