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Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
The Company
1. The Company

Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, Inc. (“the Company”) provides debt and equity to the energy efficiency and renewable energy markets. The Company and its subsidiaries are hereafter referred to as “we,” “us,” or “our.” We refer to the financings that we hold on our balance sheet as our “Portfolio.” Our Portfolio may include:

 

    Financing Receivables, such as project loans, receivables and direct financing leases,

 

    Investments, such as debt and equity securities,

 

    Real Estate, such as land or other physical assets and related intangible assets used in renewable energy projects, and

 

    Equity Investments in unconsolidated affiliates, such as projects where we hold a non-consolidated equity interest in a project.

We finance our business through cash on hand, borrowings under our credit facility, and various asset-backed securitization transactions and equity issuances. We also generate fee income through asset-backed securitizations, by providing broker/dealer services and by servicing assets owned by third parties. Some of our subsidiaries are special purpose entities that are formed for specific operations associated with financing sustainable infrastructure receivables for specific long term contracts.

In April 2013, we completed our initial public offering (“IPO”). Concurrently with the IPO, we completed a series of transactions, which are referred to as the formation transactions that resulted in Hannon Armstrong Capital, LLC (the “Predecessor”), the entity that operated the historical business prior to the consummation of the IPO, becoming our subsidiary. Our common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) under the symbol “HASI.” See Note 11 for a summary of our public offerings of common stock.

We elected and qualified as a REIT for U.S. federal income tax purposes commencing with our taxable year ended December 31, 2013. We generally will not be subject to U.S. federal income taxes on our taxable income to the extent that we annually distribute all of our taxable income to stockholders and maintain our qualification as a REIT. We operate our business through, and serve as the sole general partner of, our operating partnership subsidiary, Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure, L.P, (the “Operating Partnership”), which was formed to acquire and directly or indirectly own the Company’s assets. We also intend to operate our business in a manner that will continue to permit us to maintain our exception from registration as an investment company under the 1940 Act.

Real Estate Acquisitions

In May 2014, we entered into a Unit Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) to acquire all of the outstanding member interests in AWCC from Northwharf Nominees Limited, DBD AWCC LLC, NGP Energy Technology Partners II, L.P. and C.C. Hinckley Company, LLC in exchange for approximately $107 million (the “Purchase Price”), which we funded with our cash on hand and availability under our credit facilities.

Since the AWCC acquisition that was accounted for as a business combination, we have completed several smaller transactions that were also accounted for as business combinations for additional consideration of approximately $19 million, which we funded with our cash on hand and availability under our existing credit facilities.

 

We incurred approximately $2.5 million of acquisition related costs in connection with these transactions, which we have previously expensed as acquisition costs in our 2014 consolidated statement of operations We recorded the acquired assets (including real estate related intangibles) at fair value. We did not assume any indebtedness in connection with these transactions. We used a qualified appraiser to assist us with the determination of the fair value estimates for the majority of these assets.

The purchase price allocation for these business combinations, which reflects our estimates of the fair value of the assets acquired, is as follows (dollars in millions, unaudited):

 

Financing receivables

   $ 37   

Real estate

     67   

Real estate related intangibles

     20   

Goodwill

     2   
  

 

 

 

Purchase Price

   $ 126   
  

 

 

 

The unaudited pro forma summary below presents the consolidated results of operations, as if the acquisition was completed on January 1, 2013. The pro forma information is not necessarily indicative of what our actual results of operations would have been for the period, nor does it purport to represent our estimate of future results of operations.

 

     For the nine months ended
September 30, 2014
 
     (dollars in millions, unaudited)  

Pro forma net investment revenue

   $ 24   

Pro forma net income

   $ 10   

Investments in Equity Method Affiliates

We have made several investments in wind projects through limited liability entities with an affiliate of JPMorgan Chase & Co (“JPMorgan”) and with Bluestem Creston Ridge, LLC (“Bluestem”) to purchase and hold minority interests in various wind projects operated by various wind energy companies. Through these arrangements, we indirectly own minority interests in five limited liability holding companies that own ten operating wind projects and one wind project that is under construction, which is expected to reach commercial operations in the fourth quarter of 2015. The following table sets forth certain information related to our equity method investments.

 

Date

  

Transaction

   Investment      Partner
          (dollars in millions)       

October 2014

   Strong Upwind Holdings I, LLC    $ 141       JPMorgan

April 2015

   Strong Upwind Holdings II, LLC    $ 36       JPMorgan

August 2015

   Creston Ridge Management, LLC    $ 10       Bluestem

In June 2015, JPMorgan and one of the holding companies entered into an agreement regarding the treatment of certain tax matters that had the impact of reducing our expected future cash flows from that holding company. To offset this reduction in our future cash flows, in June 2015, JPMorgan paid us approximately $3 million, which effectively reduced our original investment from $144 million to $141 million in Strong Upwind Holdings I, LLC.

See Note 2 for our accounting treatment of these investments and Note 13 for the financial position and results of operations of the holding companies.