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Long-term debt
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2012
Long-term debt  
Long-term debt

5. Long-term debt

        Long-term debt consists of the following:

 
  March 31, 2012   December 31, 2011   Interest Rate

Recourse Debt:

               

Senior notes, due 2018

  $ 460,000   $ 460,000   9.00%

Senior unsecured notes, due June 2036 (Cdn$210,000)

    210,526     206,490   5.95%

Senior unsecured notes, due July 2014

    190,000     190,000   5.90%

Senior unsecured notes, due August 2017

    150,000     150,000   5.87%

Senior unsecured notes, due August 2019

    75,000     75,000   5.97%

Non-Recourse Debt:

               

Epsilon Power Partners term facility, due 2019

    34,608     34,982   7.40%

Path 15 senior secured bonds

    145,880     145,879   7.90% – 9.00%

Auburndale term loan, due 2013

    10,150     11,900   5.10%

Cadillac term loan, due 2025

    39,631     40,231   6.02% – 8.00%

Piedmont construction loan, due 2013

    108,863     100,796   Libor plus 3.50%

Canadian Hills construction loan, due 2013

    176,149       Libor plus 3.00%

Purchase accounting fair value adjustments

    10,398     10,580    

Less current maturities

    (246,520 )   (20,958 )  
             

Total long-term debt

  $ 1,364,685   $ 1,404,900    
             
  • Notes of Atlantic Power (US) GP

        Atlantic Power (US) GP, an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary acquired in connection with the acquisition of the Partnership, has outstanding $150.0 million aggregate principal amount of 5.87% senior guaranteed notes, Series A, due August 2017 (the "Series A Notes"). Interest on the Series A Notes is payable semi-annually at 5.87%. Atlantic Power (US) GP also has outstanding $75.0 million aggregate principal amount of 5.97% senior guaranteed notes, Series B, due August 2019 (the "Series B Notes"). Interest on the Series B Notes is payable semi-annually at 5.97%. The Series A Notes and Series B Notes are guaranteed by the Partnership and by Curtis Palmer LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Partnership.

  • Non-Recourse Debt

        Project-level debt of our consolidated projects is secured by the respective project and its contracts with no other recourse to us. Project-level debt generally amortizes during the term of the respective revenue generating contracts of the projects. The loans have certain financial covenants that must be met. At March 31, 2012, all of our projects were in compliance with the covenants contained in project-level debt. However, our Epsilon Power Partners, Selkirk, Delta-Person and Gregory projects had not achieved the levels of debt service coverage ratios required by the project-level debt arrangements as a condition to make distributions and were therefore restricted from making distributions to us.

  • Senior Credit Facility

        As of March 31, 2012, $72.8 million was drawn on the senior credit facility and $139.1 million was issued in letters of credit, but not drawn, to support contractual credit requirements at several of our projects and the applicable margin was 2.75%.