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SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2021
Additional Cash Flow Elements and Supplemental Cash Flow Information [Abstract] |
Schedule of supplemental cash flow information |
|  | Nine Months Ended September 30
(in millions) |  | 2021 |  | 2020
Cash paid for interest, net of amount capitalized |  | $ | 310.9 |  |  | $ | 332.4 |
Cash paid for income taxes, net |  | 33.8 |  |  | 27.6 |
Significant non-cash investing and financing transactions: |  |  |  |
Accounts payable related to construction costs |  | 144.0 |  |  | 177.8 |
Increase in receivable related to insurance proceeds for property damage (1) |  | 58.3 |  |  | — |
(1)See Note 6, Property, Plant, and Equipment, for information about a steam incident at WE's PSB.
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 to the total of these amounts shown on the statements of cash flows:
(in millions) |  | September 30, 2021 |  | December 31, 2020
Cash and cash equivalents |  | $ | 26.0 |  |  | $ | 24.8 |
Restricted cash included in other current assets |  | 36.4 |  |  | — |
Restricted cash included in other long term assets |  | 46.8 |  |  | 47.8 |
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash |  | $ | 109.2 |  |  | $ | 72.6 |

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