Portfolio Financings |
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| Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] | |
| Portfolio Financings | Portfolio Financings Overview We have developed various financing options that enable customers’ use of the Energy Server systems through third-party ownership financing arrangements. In the past, we and our third-party equity investors (together, the “Equity Investors”) contributed funds into a limited liability investment entity (the “Investment Company”) that owns and is parent to the Operating Company (together, the “PPA Entities”). The contributed funds were restricted for use by the Operating Company to the purchase of our Energy Server systems manufactured by us in our normal course of operations. All six PPA Entities established in the past utilized their entire available financing capacity and have completed the purchase of their Energy Server systems. Any debt incurred by the Operating Companies was non-recourse to us. Under these structures, each Investment Company was treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Equity Investors received investment tax credits and accelerated tax depreciation benefits. In June 2022, November 2022, and August 2023, we sold PPA IIIa, PPA IV, and PPA V, respectively, which were accounted as our consolidated VIEs, as a result of the repowering of the Energy Server systems. The other three PPA Entities—PPA II, PPA IIIb and PPA VI—are not considered VIEs (the Third-Party PPAs). PPA V Interest Buyout On August 10, 2023, we acquired all of Solar TC Corp’s (“Intel”) interest in PPA V, as set forth in the Purchase and Sale Agreement (the “2023 PPA V Buyout”). The aggregate purchase price of the transaction amounted to $6.9 million. After the acquisition, PPA V became wholly owned by us. The change in our ownership interest in PPA V was accounted for as equity transaction in accordance with ASC 810. The carrying amount of the noncontrolling interest was eliminated to reflect the change in our ownership interest in PPA V, and the difference between the fair value of the consideration paid and the carrying amount of the noncontrolling interest immediately prior to the 2023 PPA V Buyout on August 10, 2023, of $11.5 million was recognized as Additional paid-in capital in our consolidated statements of stockholders’ equity. PPA V Repowering of the Energy Server Systems PPA V was established in 2015 and we, through a special purpose subsidiary (the “Project Company”), had previously entered into certain agreements for the purpose of developing, financing, owning, operating, maintaining and managing a portfolio of 37.1 megawatts of the Energy Server systems. On August 24, 2023, we entered into a Membership Interest Purchase Agreement (the “MIPA”) with the financier. Following the 2023 PPA V Buyout and prior to signing the MIPA, we repaid all of the outstanding debt of the Project Company of $119.0 million, including accrued interest of $0.5 million, and recognized a loss on extinguishment of debt in an amount of $1.4 million, represented in its entirety by the derecognition of the related debt issuance costs. On August 25, 2023, we sold our 100% interest in the Project Company to the financier through the MIPA. Simultaneously, we entered into an agreement with the Project Company to repower the 37.1 megawatts of the old PPA V Energy Servers by replacing them with the new PPA V Energy Servers and to provide related installation services, which were financed by the financier (the “EPC Agreement”). We also amended and restated our O&M Agreement with the Project Company to cover all the new PPA V Energy Servers and the old PPA V Energy Servers prior to their Repowering. The operations and maintenance fees under the O&M Agreement are paid on a fixed dollar per kilowatt basis. Due to our repurchase option on the old PPA V Energy Servers, we concluded there was no transfer of control of the old PPA V Energy Servers upon sale of the membership interest to the financier. Accordingly, we continued to recognize the old PPA Energy Servers, despite the legal ownership of such assets having been transferred under the MIPA. We assessed the recorded assets for impairment. The carrying amount of the PPA V property, plant and equipment was determined to be not recoverable as the net undiscounted cash flows were less than the carrying amounts for PPA V property, plant and equipment. Therefore, we recognized the asset impairment charge as electricity cost, consistent with our depreciation expense classification for property, plant and equipment under leases. The PPA V Repowering was complete in the first quarter of fiscal year 2024, and resulted in the following summarized impacts on our consolidated statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2024: (i) service revenue recognized of $10.9 million related to the O&M Agreements, (ii) a decrease in cost of installation revenue of $0.8 million due to accrual reversal, (iii) product revenue decreased by $0.1 million due to the revenue adjustment, and (iv) immaterial amount of installation revenue recognized. There was no impact from the PPA V Repowering on our consolidated statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2025. The PPA V Repowering had the following impacts on our consolidated statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2023: (i) product revenue and installation revenue recognized of $176.2 million and $14.8 million, respectively, as a result of the sale of the new PPA V Energy Servers; (ii) electricity revenue recognized of $6.1 million related to the old PPA V Energy Servers and the release of deferred incentive revenue of $5.0 million, (iii) service revenue recognized of $2.6 million related to the O&M Agreements, (iv) cost of electricity revenue of $125.6 million, primarily including the impairment of the old PPA V Energy Servers of $123.7 million and accelerated depreciation of $0.4 million prior to the completion of installation; (v) cost of product revenue and cost of installation revenue of $75.3 million and $13.2 million, respectively, due to the sale of the new PPA V Energy Servers; (vi) general and administrative expenses of $6.4 million due to the impairment of non-recoverable production insurance; (vii) loss on extinguishment of debt of $1.4 million, (viii) interest expense of $0.3 million, and (ix) net loss attributable to noncontrolling interest of $1.0 million. Impacts on our consolidated statements of cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2023, are summarized as follows: net cash provided by financing activities decreased by $109.3 million due to the repayment of debt related to PPA V of $118.5 million, and acquisition of all of interest in PPA V from Intel for $6.9 million net of distributions to Intel’s noncontrolling interest of $2.3 million. There were no impacts on cash flows from financing activities for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024. Assets Buyout and Repowering In December 2024, we terminated certain of our legacy Managed Services Agreements, previously recorded as failed sale-and-leaseback transactions upon inception. At termination, we bought back the old Energy Server systems from the respective legacy financiers (the “Buyout”). Upon the Buyout, title for these Energy Server systems was transferred to a Bloom-owned SPV. The SPV was a VIE of Bloom under ASC 810, and we consolidated it in our financial statements as we were the primary beneficiary and therefore had the power to direct activities which were most significant to this entity. Simultaneously with the Buyout, we sold our 100% interest in the SPV to the new financier. Upon the sale, the SPV is no longer a part of our consolidated financial statements. We also entered into two agreements with the New Project Company: (1) the EPC Agreement to repower its fleet of the old Energy Server systems by replacing them with the new Energy Server systems and to provide related installation services, which was financed by the new financier (the “old Energy Server systems Repowering”); and (2) the O&M Agreement for the operations and maintenance of the new Energy Server systems with fees payable on a fixed dollar per kilowatt basis. The majority of old Energy Server systems Repowering was scheduled for the first half of fiscal year 2025, with the remaining to be repowered by the end of the fiscal year 2026. At the time of the Buyout, we assessed the old Energy Server systems for impairment. As a result, the carrying amount of the assets, recorded as property, plant and equipment on our consolidated balance sheet, was adjusted to $1.5 million, to represent the new remaining useful life. The asset impairment charge of $74.4 million, along with the amount of the Buyout of $59.4 million, net of refund received from the financier, was offset against the related to the terminated legacy managed services agreements of $146.2 million, and the net effect of $12.4 million was recorded in Other income (expense), net on our consolidated statements of operations (see Note 9—Leases in this Annual Report on Form 10-K). Under the EPC Agreement, Bloom has a right to repurchase the old Energy Server systems. Due to such repurchase right, we concluded there was no transfer of control of the old Energy Server systems upon sale of the SPV to the new financier. Consequently, the sale of the old Energy Server systems was recorded as a sales-type lease. Accordingly, we derecognized the old Energy Server systems with the carrying amount of $1.5 million, as determined at the time of the Buyout, resulting in the selling profit from the sales-type lease of $3.6 million, which was recorded in Other income (expense), net on our consolidated statements of operations. Instead of recording the respective lease receivable for the sales-type lease, we adjusted customer deposits received from the new financier as part of the EPC Agreement by $5.1 million. The sales-type lease had terms ending upon completion of the old Energy Server systems Repowering throughout the fiscal year 2025. |