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Regulatory matters (Tables)
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2019
Regulated Operations [Abstract]  
Regulatory Assets and Liabilities
At any given time, the Company can have several regulatory proceedings underway. The financial effects of these proceedings are reflected in the unaudited interim consolidated financial statements based on regulatory approval obtained to the extent that there is a financial impact during the applicable reporting period. The following regulatory proceedings were recently completed:
Utility
State
Regulatory proceeding type
Annual revenue increase
Effective date
Peach State Gas System
Georgia
GRAM
$2,367
February 1, 2019
Woodmark/Tall Timbers
Texas
GRC
$484
August 1, 2019

















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Regulatory matters (continued)
Regulatory assets and liabilities consist of the following: 
 
June 30, 2019
 
December 31, 2018
Regulatory assets
 
 
 
Environmental remediation
$
83,903

 
$
82,295

Pension and post-employment benefits
125,412

 
125,959

Debt premium
45,499

 
48,847

Fuel and commodity costs adjustments
21,283

 
26,310

Rate adjustment mechanism
33,516

 
37,202

Clean energy and other customer programs
24,330

 
22,269

Deferred construction costs
13,807

 
13,986

Asset retirement
22,529

 
21,048

Income taxes
34,971

 
34,822

Rate review costs
8,040

 
7,990

Other
33,433

 
29,746

Total regulatory assets
$
446,723

 
$
450,474

Less: current regulatory assets
(42,398
)
 
(59,037
)
Non-current regulatory assets
$
404,325

 
$
391,437

 
 
 
 
Regulatory liabilities
 
 
 
Income taxes
$
322,290

 
$
323,384

Cost of removal
196,469

 
193,564

Rate base offset
9,778

 
10,900

Fuel and commodity costs adjustments
19,715

 
22,552

Deferred compensation received in relation to lost production
4,788

 
6,003

Deferred construction costs - fuel related
7,178

 
7,258

Pension and post-employment benefits
6,519

 
2,170

Other
15,160

 
12,761

Total regulatory liabilities
$
581,897

 
$
578,592

Less: current regulatory liabilities
(38,880
)
 
(39,005
)
Non-current regulatory liabilities
$
543,017

 
$
539,587