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Debt | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2017
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
DEBT | DEBT Recourse Debt In August 2017, the Company issued $500 million aggregate principal amount of 5.125% senior notes due in 2027. The Company used these proceeds to redeem at par $240 million aggregate principal of its existing LIBOR + 3.00% senior unsecured notes due in 2019 and repurchased $217 million of its existing 8.00% senior unsecured notes due in 2020. As a result of the latter transactions, the Company recognized a loss on extinguishment of debt of $36 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017. In May 2017, the Company closed on $525 million aggregate principal LIBOR + 2.00% secured term loan due in 2022. In June 2017, the Company used these proceeds to redeem at par all $517 million aggregate principal of its existing Term Convertible Securities. As a result of the latter transaction, the Company recognized a loss on extinguishment of debt of $6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017. In March 2017, the Company redeemed via tender offers $276 million aggregate principal of its existing 7.375% senior unsecured notes due in 2021 and $24 million of its existing 8.00% senior unsecured notes due in 2020. As a result of these transactions, the Company recognized a loss on extinguishment of debt of $47 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017. In July 2016, the Company redeemed in full the $181 million balance of its 8.00% outstanding senior unsecured notes due 2017 using proceeds from its senior secured credit facility. As a result, the Company recognized a loss on extinguishment of debt of $16 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016. In May 2016, the Company issued $500 million aggregate principal amount of 6.00% senior notes due in 2026. The Company used these proceeds to redeem at par $495 million aggregate principal of its existing LIBOR + 3.00% senior unsecured notes due 2019. As a result of the latter transaction, the Company recognized a loss on extinguishment of debt of $4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2016. In January 2016, the Company redeemed $125 million of its senior unsecured notes outstanding. The repayment included a portion of the 7.375% senior notes due in 2021, the 4.875% senior notes due in 2023, the 5.5% senior notes due in 2024, the 5.5% senior notes due in 2025 and the floating rate senior notes due in 2019. As a result of these transactions, the Company recognized a net gain on extinguishment of debt of $7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2016. Non-Recourse Debt During the nine months ended September 30, 2017, the Company’s subsidiaries had the following significant debt transactions:
Subsidiary |  | Issuances |  | Repayments |  | Gain (Loss) on Extinguishment of Debt
Tietê |  | $ | 585 |  |  | $ | (293 | ) |  | $ | (5 | )
IPALCO |  | 532 |  |  | (480 | ) |  | (9 | )
Southland |  | 360 |  |  | — |  |  | — |
AES Argentina |  | 307 |  |  | (181 | ) |  | 65 |
Los Mina |  | 278 |  |  | (259 | ) |  | (4 | )
Gener |  | 243 |  |  | (78 | ) |  | — |
Colon |  | 220 |  |  | — |  |  | — |
Eletropaulo |  | 189 |  |  | (147 | ) |  | — |
Other |  | 261 |  |  | (509 | ) |  | (3 | )
Total |  | $ | 2,975 |  |  | $ | (1,947 | ) |  | $ | 44 |
Southland — In June 2017, AES Southland Energy LLC closed on $2 billion of aggregate principal long-term non-recourse debt financing to fund the Southland re-powering construction projects (“the Southland financing”). The Southland financing consists of $1.5 billion senior secured notes, amortizing through 2040, and $492 million senior secured term loan, amortizing through 2027. The long term debt financing has a combined weighted average cost of approximately 4.5%. As of September 30, 2017, $360 million of the senior secured notes were outstanding under the Southland financing. AES Argentina — In February 2017, AES Argentina issued $300 million aggregate principal of unsecured and unsubordinated notes due in 2024. The net proceeds from this issuance were used for the prepayment of $75 million of non-recourse debt related to the construction of the San Nicolas Plant resulting in a gain on extinguishment of debt of approximately $65 million. Non-Recourse Debt in Default — The current portion of non-recourse debt includes the following subsidiary debt in default as of September 30, 2017 (in millions).
Subsidiary |  | Primary Nature of Default |  | Debt in Default |  | Net Assets
Alto Maipo (Chile) |  | Covenant |  | $ | 623 |  |  | $ | 352 |
AES Puerto Rico |  | Covenant |  | 365 |  |  | 566 |
AES Ilumina |  | Covenant |  | 36 |  |  | 56 |
|  |  |  | $ | 1,024 |  |  |
The above defaults are not payment defaults. All of the subsidiary non-recourse debt defaults were triggered by failure to comply with covenants and/or other conditions such as (but not limited to) failure to meet information covenants, complete construction or other milestones in an allocated time, meet certain minimum or maximum financial ratios, or other requirements contained in the non-recourse debt documents of the applicable subsidiary. The AES Corporation’s recourse debt agreements include cross-default clauses that will trigger if a subsidiary or group of subsidiaries for which the non-recourse debt is in default provides more than 20% or more of the Parent Company’s total cash distributions from businesses for the four most recently completed fiscal quarters. As of September 30, 2017, the Company has no defaults which result in or are at risk of triggering a cross-default under the recourse debt of the Parent Company. In the event the Parent Company is not in compliance with the financial covenants of its senior secured revolving credit facility, restricted payments will be limited to regular quarterly shareholder dividends at the then-prevailing rate. Payment defaults and bankruptcy defaults would preclude the making of any restricted payments.

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