Notes to Unaudited Financial Statements
(1) Nature of Business
TA-High Desert, LLC (High Desert or the Company), a Delaware limited liability company, is a wholly owned subsidiary of RE Mayfair, LLC (Mayfair), a Delaware limited liability company, a wholly owned subsidiary of NRG Solar PV LLC (Solar PV), a Delaware limited liability company, a wholly owned subsidiary of NRG Solar LLC (NRG Solar), a Delaware limited liability company, a wholly owned subsidiary of NRG Repowering Holdings LLC (NRG RH), a Delaware limited liability company, a wholly owned subsidiary of NRG Energy, Inc. (NRG or the Parent).
The Company, along with Mayfair, was originally a wholly owned subsidiary of Recurrent Energy Development Holdings, LLC (Recurrent) and was organized to develop, design, construct, own, and operate the 20MW High Desert photovoltaic solar generating facility located near Lancaster, California. In February 2013, Solar PV entered into a Purchase and Sale Agreement with Recurrent to acquire 100% of the equity interest in the Company.
In December 2009, the Company entered into a 20-year solar project power purchase agreement (PPA) to provide solar-generated electricity to Southern California Edison (SCE).
The construction of the facility was completed and commercial operations commenced on March 25, 2013. On March 28, 2013, the Company was acquired by NRG. The accounting for the acquisition in accordance with ASC 805, Business Combinations, was completed during the first quarter of 2014, with no material changes.
On April 9, 2014, the Company received $20 million from the U.S. Treasury Department with respect to its application for a renewable energy grant. On April 21, 2014, the Company utilized the proceeds, along with $1.7 million contributed to the Company by NRG RH, to repay the outstanding balance of the Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes. The Company is evaluating the basis for the U.S. Treasury Department’s award and all of its options for recovering the amount by which the U.S. Treasury Department reduced the award.
The following notes should be read in conjunction with the accounting policies and other disclosures as set forth in the notes to the Company’s annual financial statements. Interim results are not necessarily indicative of results for a full year.
(2) Commitments and Contingencies
In February 2014, the Company received a demand letter from Recurrent requesting payments for certain disputed items within the purchase and sale agreement. The Company engaged independent engineers to investigate the validity of the related claims and responded to the demand letter contesting the related payments. Thereafter, the parties engaged in settlement discussions and on July 17, 2014, they reached an agreement in principle to resolve the claims for approximately $3.6 million.
(3) Subsequent Events
These financial statements and notes reflect the Company’s evaluation of events occurring subsequent to the balance sheet date through July 17, 2014, the date that the financial statements are available to be issued.