Solar Services

9 Months Ended

Sep. 27, 2020

SOLAR SERVICESUpon adoption of ASC 842 on December 31, 2018, all arrangements under our residential lease program entered into on or after December 31, 2018 are accounted for as contracts with customers in accordance with ASC 606. The disclosure below relates to the residential lease arrangements entered into before December 31, 2018, which we continue to retain and are accounted for in accordance with the superseded lease accounting guidance.

Operating Leases

The following table summarizes "Solar power systems leased and to be leased, net" under operating leases on our condensed consolidated balance sheets as of September 27, 2020 and December 29, 2019:


	As of
(In thousands)	September 27, 2020		December 29, 2019
Solar power systems leased and to be leased, net1:
Solar power systems leased	$	115,775	$	116,948

	115,775		116,948
Less: accumulated depreciation and impairment2	(64,596)		(62,610)
Solar power systems leased, net	$	51,179	$	54,338

1 Solar power systems leased, net, are physically located exclusively in the United States.

2 For the three and nine months ended September 29, 2019, we recognized a non-cash impairment charge of $0.0 million and $4.0 million, respectively on solar power systems leased. No impairment charges were recorded for the three and nine months ended September 27, 2020.

The following table presents our minimum future rental receipts on operating leases placed in service as of September 27, 2020:


(In thousands)	Fiscal 2020 (remaining three months)		Fiscal 2021		Fiscal 2022		Fiscal 2023		Fiscal 2024		Thereafter		Total
Minimum future rentals on operating leases placed in service1	$	30	$	65	$	66	$	66	$	66	$	959	$	1,252

1 Does not include contingent rentals that may be received from customers under agreements that include performance-based incentives.

Sale of residential lease assets

On July 10, 2018, we created SunStrong Capital Holdings, LLC ("SunStrong") to own and operate a portion of our residential lease assets and subsequently contributed to SunStrong our controlling equity interests in a number of solar project entities that we controlled. Further, on November 5, 2018, we entered into a Purchase and Sale agreement ("PSA") with HA SunStrong Capital LLC ("HA SunStrong Parent"), a subsidiary of Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, Inc. ("Hannon Armstrong"), to sell 49.0% of the membership interests in SunStrong for cash proceeds of $10 million.

On September 27, 2019, we sold the majority of our remaining residential lease assets. These residential lease assets were sold under a new assignment of interest agreement entered into with SunStrong. SunStrong also assumed debts related to the residential lease assets sold.

Refer to our annual consolidated financial statements in Annual Report on Form 10-K for fiscal years ended December 29, 2019 and December 30, 2018 for details of these transactions.

On January 13, 2020, certain subsidiaries of SunStrong entered into a loan agreement with Wells Fargo National Association, as administrative agent, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, as arranger, and the lenders party thereto, for a senior loan of $216.2 million, the proceeds of which were used to pay off the warehouse loans previously borrowed from Credit Agricole. Concurrently, certain other subsidiaries of SunStrong entered into a subordinated mezzanine loan agreement with Hannon Armstrong to borrow $72.8 million, the proceeds of which refinanced two mezzanine loans previously borrowed from Hannon Armstrong. We received a special distribution of $7.0 million from SunStrong, of which $4.0 million was applied against prior receivables from the loans that were refinanced, and the remaining amount of $3.0 million was recorded as a gain on the above refinancing transactions recorded in "(Gain) loss on sale and impairment of residential lease assets" in the condensed consolidated statements of operations.