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Leases [Abstract]  
Leases

Note 13 – Leases

We have entered into various non-cancellable operating and finance lease agreements for certain of our offices, manufacturing and warehouse facilities, retail and service locations, equipment, vehicles, and solar energy systems, worldwide. We determine if an arrangement is a lease, or contains a lease, at inception and record the leases in our financial statements upon lease commencement, which is the date when the underlying asset is made available for use by the lessor.

Our leases, where we are the lessee, often include options to extend the lease term for up to 10 years. Some of our leases also include options to terminate the lease prior to the end of the agreed upon lease term. For purposes of calculating lease liabilities, lease terms include options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that we will exercise such options.

Lease expense for operating lease payments is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Certain operating leases provide for annual increases to lease payments based on an index or rate. We calculate the present value of future lease payments based on the index or rate at the lease commencement date for new leases commencing after January 1, 2019. For historical leases, we used the index or rate as of the adoption date. Differences between the calculated lease payment and actual payment are expensed as incurred. Lease expense for finance lease payments is recognized as amortization expense of the finance lease ROU asset and interest expense on the finance lease liability over the lease term.

The balances for the operating and finance leases where we are the lessee are presented as follows (in millions) within our consolidated balance sheet:

 

 

 

December 31, 2019

 

Operating leases:

 

 

 

 

Operating lease right-of-use assets

 

$

1,218

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accrued liabilities and other

 

$

228

 

Other long-term liabilities

 

 

956

 

Total operating lease liabilities

 

$

1,184

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finance leases:

 

 

 

 

Solar energy systems, net

 

$

30

 

Property, plant and equipment, net

 

 

1,600

 

Total finance lease assets

 

$

1,630

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current portion of long-term debt and finance leases

 

$

386

 

Long-term debt and finance leases, net of current portion

 

 

1,232

 

Total finance lease liabilities

 

$

1,618

 

 

The components of lease expense are as follows (in millions) within our consolidated statements of operations:

 

 

 

Year  Ended

 

 

 

December 31, 2019

 

Operating lease expense:

 

 

 

 

Operating lease expense (1)

 

$

426

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finance lease expense:

 

 

 

 

Amortization of leased assets

 

$

299

 

Interest on lease liabilities

 

 

104

 

Total finance lease expense

 

$

403

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total lease expense

 

$

829

 

 

(1)

Includes short-term leases and variable lease costs, which are immaterial.

Other information related to leases where we are the lessee is as follows:

 

 

 

December 31, 2019

 

Weighted-average remaining lease term:

 

 

 

 

Operating leases

 

6.2 years

 

Finance leases

 

3.9 years

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted-average discount rate:

 

 

 

 

Operating leases

 

 

6.5

%

Finance leases

 

 

6.5

%

 

Because most of our leases do not provide an implicit rate of return, we used our incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at lease commencement date in determining the present value of lease payments.

Supplemental cash flow information related to leases where we are the lessee is as follows (in millions):

 

 

 

Year Ended

 

 

 

December 31, 2019

 

Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:

 

 

 

 

Operating cash outflows from operating leases

 

$

396

 

Operating cash outflows from finance leases (interest payments)

 

$

104

 

Financing cash outflows from finance leases

 

$

321

 

Leased assets obtained in exchange for finance lease liabilities

 

$

616

 

Leased assets obtained in exchange for operating lease liabilities

 

$

202

 

 

As of December 31, 2019, the maturities of our operating and finance lease liabilities (excluding short-term leases) are as follows (in millions):

 

 

 

Operating

 

 

Finance

 

 

 

Leases

 

 

Leases

 

2020

 

$

296

 

 

$

474

 

2021

 

 

262

 

 

 

478

 

2022

 

 

210

 

 

 

600

 

2023

 

 

174

 

 

 

224

 

2024

 

 

146

 

 

 

5

 

Thereafter

 

 

372

 

 

 

13

 

Total minimum lease payments

 

 

1,460

 

 

 

1,794

 

Less: Interest

 

 

276

 

 

 

176

 

Present value of lease obligations

 

 

1,184

 

 

 

1,618

 

Less: Current portion

 

 

228

 

 

 

386

 

Long-term portion of lease obligations

 

$

956

 

 

$

1,232

 

 

Under legacy lease accounting (ASC 840), future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable leases as of December 31, 2018 are as follows (in millions):

 

 

 

Operating

 

 

Finance

 

 

 

Leases

 

 

Leases

 

2019

 

$

276

 

 

$

417

 

2020

 

 

257

 

 

 

503

 

2021

 

 

230

 

 

 

506

 

2022

 

 

183

 

 

 

24

 

2023

 

 

158

 

 

 

5

 

Thereafter

 

 

524

 

 

 

6

 

Total minimum lease payments

 

$

1,628

 

 

 

1,461

 

Less: Interest

 

 

 

 

 

 

122

 

Present value of lease obligations

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,339

 

Less: Current portion

 

 

 

 

 

 

346

 

Long-term portion of lease obligations

 

 

 

 

 

$

993

 

 

Non-cancellable Operating Lease Receivables

Under the new lease standard, we are the lessor of certain vehicle arrangements as described in Note 2, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies. Following the adoption of the new lease standard, solar energy system leases and PPAs that commenced after January 1, 2019, where we are the lessor and were previously accounted for as leases, no longer meet the definition of a lease and are therefore not included in the table as of December 31, 2019 (refer to Note 2, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies). As of December 31, 2019, maturities of our operating lease receivables from customers for each of the next five years and thereafter were as follows (in millions):

 

2020

 

$

644

 

2021

 

 

494

 

2022

 

 

317

 

2023

 

 

190

 

2024

 

 

191

 

Thereafter

 

 

2,294

 

Total

 

$

4,130

 

 

Under legacy lease accounting (ASC 840), future minimum lease payments to be received from customers under non-cancellable leases as of December 31, 2018 are as follows (in millions):

 

2019

 

$

502

 

2020

 

 

418

 

2021

 

 

271

 

2022

 

 

187

 

2023

 

 

189

 

Thereafter

 

 

2,469

 

Total

 

$

4,036

 

 

The above tables do not include vehicle sales to customers or leasing partners with a resale value guarantee as the cash payments were received upfront. For our solar PPA arrangements, customers are charged solely based on actual power produced by the installed solar energy system at a predefined rate per kilowatt-hour of power produced. The future payments from such arrangements are not included in the above table as they are a function of the power generated by the related solar energy systems in the future.