Related Party Disclosures

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2020

Related Party Transactions

OGE Energy charges operating costs to OG&E and Enable based on several factors, and operating costs directly related to OG&E and/or Enable are assigned as such. Operating costs incurred for the benefit of OG&E are allocated either as overhead based primarily on labor costs or using the "Distrigas" method, which is a three-factor formula that uses an equal weighting of payroll, net operating revenues and gross property, plant and equipment.

OGE Energy and OG&E

OGE Energy charged operating costs to OG&E of $140.6 million, $149.8 million and $140.9 million during the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively. In 2020 and 2018, OG&E declared dividends to OGE Energy of $325.0 million and $185.0 million, respectively. In 2019, no dividends were declared from OG&E to OGE Energy.

OGE Energy and Enable

OGE Energy and Enable are currently parties to several agreements whereby OGE Energy provides specified support services to Enable, such as certain information technology, payroll and benefits administration. Under these agreements, OGE Energy charged operating costs to Enable of $0.4 million, $0.5 million and $0.6 million for December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively.

Pursuant to a seconding agreement, OGE Energy provides seconded employees to Enable to support Enable's operations. As of December 31, 2020, 76 employees that participate in OGE Energy's defined benefit and retirement plans are seconded to Enable. OGE Energy billed Enable for reimbursement of $17.3 million, $23.2 million and $27.5 million in 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively, under the seconding agreement for employment costs. If the seconding agreement were terminated, and those employees were no longer employed by OGE Energy, and lump sum payments were made to those employees, OGE Energy would recognize a settlement or curtailment of the pension/retiree health care charges, which would increase expense at OGE Energy by $19.0 million. Settlement and curtailment charges associated with the Enable seconded employees are not reimbursable to OGE Energy by Enable. The seconding agreement can be terminated by mutual agreement of OGE Energy and Enable or solely by OGE Energy upon 120 days' notice.

OGE Energy had accounts receivable from Enable for amounts billed for support services, including the cost of seconded employees, of $2.0 million and $0.8 million as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, which are included in Accounts Receivable in OGE Energy's balance sheets.

Assuming the pending merger between Enable and Energy Transfer is completed, these agreements between OGE Energy and Enable pursuant to which OGE Energy provides support services and seconded employees will be terminated.

OG&E and Enable

Enable provides gas transportation services to OG&E pursuant to agreements, which expire in May 2024 and December 2038, that grant Enable the responsibility of delivering natural gas to OG&E's generating facilities and performing an imbalance service. With this imbalance service, in accordance with the cash-out provision of the contract, OG&E purchases gas from Enable when Enable's deliveries exceed OG&E's pipeline receipts. Enable purchases gas from OG&E when OG&E's pipeline receipts exceed Enable's deliveries. Further, an additional gas transportation services contract with Enable became effective in December 2018 related to the project to convert Muskogee Units 4 and 5 from coal to natural gas. The following table presents summarized related party transactions between OG&E and Enable during the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018.


	Year Ended December 31,
(In millions)	2020		2019		2018
Operating revenues:
Electricity to power electric compression assets	$	15.1	$	15.9	$	16.3
Cost of sales:
Natural gas transportation services	$	32.8	$	41.2	$	37.9

Natural gas purchases (sales)	$	2.7	$	(6.0)	$	(3.2)