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Lease Pass-Through Financing Obligations
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2015
Property Subject To Or Available For Operating Lease Net [Abstract]  
Lease Pass-Through Financing Obligation

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Lease Pass-Through Financing Obligations

The Company has entered into four transactions referred to as “lease pass-through arrangements.” Under lease pass-through arrangements, the Company leases solar energy systems to Fund investors under a master lease agreement, and these investors in turn are assigned the leases with customers. The Company receives all of the value attributable to the accelerated tax depreciation and some or all of the value attributable to the other incentives. The Company assigns to the Fund investors the value attributable to the ITC, the right to receive U.S. Treasury grants, and, for the duration of the master lease term, the long-term recurring customer payments. Given the assignment of the operating cash flows, these arrangements are accounted for as financing obligations. In addition, in the fourth lease pass-through structure, the Company sold, as well as leased, solar energy systems to a Fund investor under a master purchase agreement. As the substantial risks and rewards in the underlying solar energy systems were retained by the Company, this arrangement was also accounted for as a financing obligation.

Under these lease pass-through arrangements, wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company finance the cost of solar energy systems with investors for an initial term of 20 – 25 years. The solar energy systems are subject to Customer Agreements with an initial term not exceeding 20 years. These solar energy systems are reported under the line item solar energy systems, net in the consolidated balance sheets. As of June 30, 2015 and December 31, 2014, the cost of the solar energy systems placed in service under the lease pass-through arrangements was $394.8 million and $322.2 million, respectively. The accumulated depreciation related to these assets as of June 30, 2015 and December 31, 2014 was $26.1million and $19.3 million, respectively.