2025 Essential Annual Report

ESSENTIAL UTILITIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued) (In thousands of dollars, except per share amounts)

purchase price of $41,178 and a loss of an inconsequential amount. The sale concluded the Company’s regulated utility operations in West Virginia. The sale of the Peoples Gas West Virginia utility assets had no major effect on the Company’s operations and did not meet the requirements to be classified as discontinued operations.

The Company used the proceeds from these transactions to finance its capital expenditures and water and wastewater acquisitions, in place of external funding from equity and debt issuances.

Note 4 – Property, Plant and Equipment

December 31,

Weighted Average Useful Life

Approximate Range of Useful Lives

2025

2024

Regulated Water segment: Utility plant and equipment Mains and accessories

$

5,023,290 $ 4,781,229 35-90 years

66 years 53 years 49 years 42 years 30 years

Services, hydrants, treatment plants and reservoirs

3,567,271

3,315,076 5-83 years 448,040 15-75 years 1,328,806 3-78 years 1,152,416 5-88 years

Operations structures and water tanks

465,054

Miscellaneous pumping and purification equipment Meters, transportation and other operating equipment

1,522,970 1,245,867

Land and other non-depreciable assets

142,746

141,835

-

-

Utility plant and equipment - regulated water segment

11,967,198

11,167,402

Utility construction work in progress Net utility plant acquisition adjustment

415,527

405,751

-

-

(8,258) 22,721

(5,627) 10-53 years 20,073 17-64 years

22 years 55 years

Non-utility plant and equipment

Property, Plant and Equipment - Regulated Water segment

12,397,188

11,587,599

Regulated Natural Gas segment: Natural gas transmission

469,806 65,844 156,078

444,560 22-97 years 62,706 30-89 years 155,470 22-80 years 3,279,497 21-73 years 637,712 5-61 years

61 years 45 years 48 years 53 years 24 years

Natural gas storage

Natural gas gathering and processing

Natural gas distribution

3,828,813

Meters, transportation and other operating equipment

663,979 16,099

Land and other non-depreciable assets

4,839

-

-

Utility plant and equipment - Regulated Natural Gas segment

5,200,619

4,584,784

Utility construction work-in-progress

92,910

102,994

-

-

Property, plant and equipment - Regulated Natural Gas segment

5,293,529

4,687,778

Total property, plant and equipment

$ 17,690,717 $ 16,275,377

48

Made with FlippingBook - PDF hosting