RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Letters of Credit

The Company's controlling stockholder, Atlas, has a letter of credit from a financial institution in the amount of $5.0 million at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, payable to the NYSDEC. This letter of credit guarantees the current value of the Company’s landfill environmental liability. See Note 10, "Commitments and Contingencies" under the section "Environmental Liabilities" for further details.

Atlas also has a letter of credit from a financial institution in the amount of $3.6 million at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, payable to Empire Pipeline Incorporated (“Empire”) in the event the Company should not make contracted payments for costs related to a pipeline interconnection project the Company has entered into with Empire (see Note 10, "Commitments and Contingencies").

Guarantee

An affiliate of Atlas had guaranteed the payment obligation of Greenidge in favor of Emera Energy Services, Inc. ("Emera") under an Energy Management Agreement and an ISDA Master Agreement under which Greenidge may enter into various transactions involving the purchase and sale of natural gas, electricity and other commodities with Emera. This guaranty was limited to $1.0 million and is no longer in effect. Atlas did not make any payments under the guarantee during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022.