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Equity Investments | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2020
Equity Method Investments and Joint Ventures [Abstract] |
Equity Investments [Text Block] | EQUITY INVESTMENTS Investment in ATC. Our wholly-owned subsidiary, ALLETE Transmission Holdings, owns approximately 8 percent of ATC, a Wisconsin-based utility that owns and maintains electric transmission assets in portions of Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois. We account for our investment in ATC under the equity method of accounting. In the six months ended June 30, 2020, we invested $1.1 million in ATC, and on July 31, 2020, we invested an additional $0.8 million. We expect to make additional investments of $0.8 million in 2020.
ALLETE’s Investment in ATC |
Millions |
Equity Investment Balance as of December 31, 2019 | $141.6 |
Cash Investments | 1.1 |
Equity in ATC Earnings (a) | 11.6 |
Distributed ATC Earnings | (9.4) |
Amortization of the Remeasurement of Deferred Income Taxes | 0.7 |
Equity Investment Balance as of June 30, 2020 | $145.6 |
(a)Equity in ATC Earnings includes $1.2 million of additional earnings resulting from the FERC’s May 21, 2020, order increasing ATC’s authorized return on equity to 10.52 percent including an incentive adder for participation in a regional transmission organization. NOTE 3. EQUITY INVESTMENTS (Continued) ATC’s authorized return on equity is 10.02 percent, or 10.52 percent including an incentive adder for participation in a regional transmission organization, based on a May 21, 2020, FERC order that granted rehearing of a November 2019 FERC order. (See Note 2. Regulatory Matters.) Investment in Nobles 2. Our wholly-owned subsidiary, ALLETE South Wind, owns 49 percent of Nobles 2, the entity that will own and operate a 250 MW wind energy facility in southwestern Minnesota pursuant to a 20-year PPA with Minnesota Power. We account for our investment in Nobles 2 under the equity method of accounting. As of June 30, 2020, our equity investment in Nobles 2 was $121.5 million ($56.0 million at December 31, 2019). In the six months ended June 30, 2020, we invested $65.5 million in Nobles 2, and in July 2020 we invested an additional $15.0 million. We expect to make approximately $35 million in additional investments in 2020.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for equity method investments and joint ventures. Equity method investments are investments that give the investor the ability to exercise significant influence over the operating and financial policies of an investee. Joint ventures are entities owned and operated by a small group of businesses as a separate and specific business or project for the mutual benefit of the members of the group. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 323 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2196965 + Details
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