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REPORTING SEGMENT AND OTHER OPERATIONS DATA | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2022
Segment Reporting [Abstract] |
REPORTING SEGMENT AND OTHER OPERATIONS DATA | 17. REPORTING SEGMENT AND OTHER OPERATIONS DATA The Company organizes its businesses based on a combination of factors, including its products and its regulatory environment. As a result, the Company manages its businesses through the following reporting segments and other business operations: Natural Gas Distribution consists of regulated energy and off-system, capacity and storage management operations; Clean Energy Ventures consists of capital investments in clean energy projects; Energy Services consists of unregulated wholesale and retail energy operations; Storage and Transportation consists of the Company’s investments in natural gas transportation and storage facilities; the Home Services and Other operations consist of heating, cooling and water appliance sales, installations and services, other investments and general corporate activities. Information related to the Company’s various reporting segments and other business operations is detailed below:
(Thousands) |  |  |
Fiscal Years Ended September 30, | 2022 | 2021 | 2020
Operating revenues |  |  |
Natural Gas Distribution |  |  |
External customers | $ | 1,127,417 |  | $ | 731,796 |  | $ | 729,923 |
Intercompany | 1,350 |  | — |  | — |
Clean Energy Ventures |  |  |
External customers | 128,280 |  | 95,275 |  | 102,617 |
Energy Services |  |  |
External customers (1) | 1,529,178 |  | 1,228,846 |  | 1,029,303 |
Intercompany | 94 |  | (426) |  | 1,116 |
Storage and Transportation |  |  |
External customers | 65,286 |  | 49,252 |  | 42,015 |
Intercompany | 2,449 |  | 1,768 |  | 2,713 |
Subtotal | 2,854,054 |  | 2,106,511 |  | 1,907,687 |
Home Services and Other |  |  |
External customers | 55,818 |  | 51,444 |  | 49,810 |
Intercompany | 364 |  | 785 |  | 1,207 |
Eliminations | (4,257) |  | (2,127) |  | (5,036) |
Total | $ | 2,905,979 |  | $ | 2,156,613 |  | $ | 1,953,668 |
Depreciation and amortization |  |  |
Natural Gas Distribution | $ | 94,579 |  | $ | 80,045 |  | $ | 71,883 |
Clean Energy Ventures | 21,396 |  | 20,567 |  | 25,329 |
Energy Services (2) | 148 |  | 111 |  | 123 |
Storage and Transportation | 12,302 |  | 9,960 |  | 9,293 |
Subtotal | 128,425 |  | 110,683 |  | 106,628 |
Home Services and Other | 824 |  | 980 |  | 1,032 |
Eliminations | — |  | (276) |  | (292) |
Total | $ | 129,249 |  | $ | 111,387 |  | $ | 107,368 |
Interest income (3) |  |  |
Natural Gas Distribution | $ | 895 |  | $ | 85 |  | $ | 538 |
Clean Energy Ventures | — |  | 241 |  | 240 |
Energy Services | 16 |  | 11 |  | 99 |
Storage and Transportation | 2,110 |  | 2,243 |  | 3,510 |
Subtotal | 3,021 |  | 2,580 |  | 4,387 |
Home Services and Other | 944 |  | 522 |  | 8,633 |
Eliminations | (1,249) |  | (935) |  | (10,061) |
Total | $ | 2,716 |  | $ | 2,167 |  | $ | 2,959 |
(1)Includes sales to Canada for Energy Services, which are $2.4 million, $75,000 and $584,000 in the fiscal years ended September 30, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. (2)The amortization of acquired wholesale energy contracts is excluded above and is included in natural gas purchases - nonutility on the Consolidated Statements of Operations. (3)Included in other income, net on the Consolidated Statements of Operations.
(Thousands) |  |  |
Fiscal Years Ended September 30, | 2022 | 2021 | 2020
Interest expense, net of capitalized interest |  |  |
Natural Gas Distribution | $ | 46,394 |  | $ | 36,405 |  | $ | 30,975 |
Clean Energy Ventures | 21,968 |  | 22,548 |  | 20,253 |
Energy Services | 4,725 |  | 2,204 |  | 3,276 |
Storage and Transportation | 12,097 |  | 13,348 |  | 13,124 |
Subtotal | 85,184 |  | 74,505 |  | 67,628 |
Home Services and Other | 646 |  | 4,054 |  | 10,327 |
Eliminations | — |  | — |  | (10,358) |
Total | $ | 85,830 |  | $ | 78,559 |  | $ | 67,597 |
Income tax provision (benefit) |  |  |
Natural Gas Distribution | $ | 40,141 |  | $ | 19,054 |  | $ | 27,021 |
Clean Energy Ventures | 11,361 |  | 5,048 |  | 11,034 |
Energy Services | 21,776 |  | 18,371 |  | (3,615) |
Storage and Transportation | 1,879 |  | (10,043) |  | 4,247 |
Subtotal | 75,157 |  | 32,430 |  | 38,687 |
Home Services and Other | 1,059 |  | (196) |  | (2,478) |
Eliminations | (21) |  | 1,052 |  | 285 |
Total | $ | 76,195 |  | $ | 33,286 |  | $ | 36,494 |
Equity in earnings (loss) of affiliates |  |  |
Storage and Transportation | $ | 9,865 |  | $ | (81,072) |  | $ | 15,903 |
Eliminations | (1,688) |  | (2,140) |  | (1,592) |
Total | $ | 8,177 |  | $ | (83,212) |  | $ | 14,311 |
Net financial earnings (loss) |  |  |
Natural Gas Distribution | $ | 140,124 |  | $ | 107,375 |  | $ | 126,902 |
Clean Energy Ventures | 39,403 |  | 16,789 |  | 22,111 |
Energy Services | 39,121 |  | 71,117 |  | (7,873) |
Storage and Transportation | 22,454 |  | 13,046 |  | 18,311 |
Subtotal | 241,102 |  | 208,327 |  | 159,451 |
Home Services and Other | (781) |  | (826) |  | 5,784 |
Eliminations | — |  | 211 |  | 98 |
Total | $ | 240,321 |  | $ | 207,712 |  | $ | 165,333 |
Capital expenditures |  |  |
Natural Gas Distribution | $ | 298,374 |  | $ | 426,628 |  | $ | 290,040 |
Clean Energy Ventures | 146,676 |  | 87,852 |  | 133,841 |
Storage and Transportation | 151,988 |  | 107,500 |  | 20,998 |
Subtotal | 597,038 |  | 621,980 |  | 444,879 |
Home Services and Other | 1,390 |  | 2,630 |  | 3,230 |
Total | $ | 598,428 |  | $ | 624,610 |  | $ | 448,109 |
(Return of capital from) investments in equity investees |  |  |
Storage and Transportation | $ | (5,479) |  | $ | 690 |  | $ | 2,117 |
Total | $ | (5,479) |  | $ | 690 |  | $ | 2,117 |
The Company’s assets for the various reporting segments and other business operations are detailed below:
(Thousands) | 2022 | 2021 | 2020
Assets at end of period: |  |  |
Natural Gas Distribution | $ | 4,030,686 |  | $ | 3,707,461 |  | $ | 3,531,477 |
Clean Energy Ventures | 1,015,065 |  | 914,788 |  | 814,277 |
Energy Services | 333,064 |  | 365,423 |  | 244,836 |
Storage and Transportation | 999,520 |  | 862,407 |  | 844,799 |
Subtotal | 6,378,335 |  | 5,850,079 |  | 5,435,389 |
Home Services and Other | 159,068 |  | 162,134 |  | 138,375 |
Intercompany assets (1) | (275,987) |  | (289,935) |  | (257,287) |
Total | $ | 6,261,416 |  | $ | 5,722,278 |  | $ | 5,316,477 |
(1)Consists of transactions between subsidiaries that are eliminated and reclassified in consolidation. The Chief Executive Officer, who uses NFE as a measure of profit or loss in measuring the results of the Company’s reporting segments and other business operations, is the chief operating decision maker of the Company. A reconciliation of consolidated NFE to consolidated net income is as follows:
(Thousands) | 2022 | 2021 | 2020
Net financial earnings | $ | 240,321 |  | $ | 207,712 |  | $ | 165,333 |
Less: |  |  |
Unrealized (gain) loss on derivative instruments and related transactions | (59,906) |  | 54,203 |  | (9,644) |
Tax effect | 14,248 |  | (12,887) |  | 2,296 |
Effects of economic hedging related to natural gas inventory | 19,939 |  | (42,405) |  | 12,690 |
Tax effect | (4,738) |  | 10,078 |  | (3,016) |
(Gain on) impairment of equity method investment | (5,521) |  | 92,000 |  | — |
Tax effect | 1,377 |  | (11,167) |  | — |
Net income | $ | 274,922 |  | $ | 117,890 |  | $ | 163,007 |
The Company uses derivative instruments as economic hedges of purchases and sales of physical natural gas inventory. For GAAP purposes, these derivatives are recorded at fair value and related changes in fair value are included in reported earnings. Revenues and cost of natural gas related to physical natural gas flow are recognized when the natural gas is delivered to customers. Consequently, there is a mismatch in the timing of earnings recognition between the economic hedges and physical natural gas flows. Timing differences occur in two ways: •unrealized gains and losses on derivatives are recognized in reported earnings in periods prior to physical natural gas inventory flows; and •unrealized gains and losses of prior periods are reclassified as realized gains and losses when derivatives are settled in the same period as physical natural gas inventory movements occur. NFE is a measure of the earnings based on eliminating these timing differences, to effectively match the earnings effects of the economic hedges with the physical sale of natural gas, SRECs and foreign currency contracts. Consequently, to reconcile between net income and NFE, current-period unrealized gains and losses on the derivatives are excluded from NFE as a reconciling item. Realized derivative gains and losses are also included in current-period net income. However, NFE includes only realized gains and losses related to natural gas sold out of inventory, effectively matching the full earnings effects of the derivatives with realized margins on physical natural gas flows. NFE also excludes certain transactions associated with equity method investments, including impairment charges, which are non-cash charges, and return of capital in excess of the carrying value of our investment. These are considered unusual in nature and occur infrequently such that they are not indicative of the Company’s performance for our ongoing operations. Included in the tax effects are current and deferred income tax expense corresponding with the components of NFE.

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