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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS CO

For the period ended Dec 31, 2023. Filed Feb 27, 2024.

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FY2023 · Filed Feb 27, 2024

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Amendments to Mexico’s Electricity Industry Law

Litigation Related to Regulatory and Other Actions by the Mexican Government

Amendments to Mexico’s Electricity Industry Law. In March 2021, the Mexican government published a decree with amendments to Mexico’s Electricity Industry Law that include some public policy changes, including establishing priority of dispatch for CFE plants over privately owned plants. The decree further purports to permit the CRE to revoke self-supply permits granted under the former electricity law, which were grandfathered when the new Electricity Industry Law was enacted, if it considers them to have been obtained improperly. According to the decree, these amendments were to become effective in March 2021, and SENER, the CRE and Centro Nacional de Control de Energía (Mexico’s National Center for Energy Control) were to have 180 calendar days to modify, as necessary, all resolutions, policies, criteria, manuals and other regulations applicable to the power industry to conform with this decree. Numerous legal actions were taken against the decree, which resulted in Mexican courts issuing a suspension of the decree later in March 2021, pending resolution of such actions.

In April 2022, the Mexican Supreme Court resolved an action of unconstitutionality filed by a group of senators against the amended Electricity Industry Law. The super majority needed to find the amendment unconstitutional was not reached and the proceeding was therefore dismissed, leaving the amended Electricity Industry Law in place. However, the Court nevertheless found certain of the amendments, including the priority of dispatch for the CFE and other provisions that granted preference to the CFE over private companies, were invalid.

In January 2024, the Second Chamber of the Mexican Supreme Court definitively resolved an amparo in a separate case brought by a third party and ruled that certain provisions of the amendments of the Electricity Industry Law are unconstitutional, including the priority of dispatch for the CFE and other provisions that granted preference to the CFE over private companies. The Court also dismissed an amparo relating to the provision of the decree applicable to self-supply permits granted under the former electricity law, and established that its decision will apply generally over all participants.

Sempra Infrastructure filed three lawsuits challenging the amendments to the Electricity Industry Law, including one concerning the provision permitting revocation of self-supply permits deemed improperly obtained. In each of them, Sempra Infrastructure obtained a favorable judgment in the lower court, all of which were challenged by the CRE. Final resolution is pending in the Second Collegiate Court. That court must follow the criteria established by the Mexican Supreme Court in January 2024, which would require dismissal of the lawsuit challenging the provision permitting revocation of self-supply permits. In such case, the CRE may be required to seek to revoke such self-supply permits, under a legal standard that is ambiguous and not well defined under the law. Sempra Infrastructure supplies power pursuant to self-supply permits, and would be permitted to file amparos challenging the constitutionality of any such action. If such self-supply permits are revoked, it may result in increased costs for Sempra Infrastructure and for its power consumers, adversely affect our ability to develop new projects, result in decreased revenues and cash flows, and negatively impact our ability to recover the carrying values of our investments in Mexico, any of which could have a material adverse effect on Sempra’s business, results of operations, financial condition, cash flows and/or prospects.

Sonora Pipeline – Resolved

Guaymas-El Oro Segment. Sempra Infrastructure’s Sonora natural gas pipeline consists oftwo segments, the Sasabe-Puerto Libertad-Guaymas segment and the Guaymas-El Oro segment. Each segment has its own service agreement with the CFE. In 2015, the Yaqui tribe, with the exception of some members living in the Bácum community, granted its consent and a right-of-way easement agreement for the construction of the Guaymas-El Oro segment of the Sonora natural gas pipeline that crosses its territory. Representatives of the Bácum community filed a legal challenge in Mexican federal court demanding the right to withhold consent for the project, resulting in a suspension order in 2016 that prohibited construction through the Bácum community territory. Because Sempra Infrastructure did not believe the 2016 suspension order prohibited construction in the remainder of the Yaqui territory, construction was completed, and commercial operations began in May 2017.

Following the start of commercial operations, Sempra Infrastructure reported damage to the Guaymas-El Oro segment in the Yaqui territory that has made that section inoperable since August 2017 and, as a result, Sempra Infrastructure declared a force majeure event. In 2017, an appellate court ruled that the scope of the 2016 suspension order encompassed the wider Yaqui territory, which has prevented Sempra Infrastructure from making repairs to put the pipeline back in service. In July 2019, a federal district court ruled in favor of Sempra Infrastructure and held that the Yaqui tribe was properly consulted and that consent from the Yaqui tribe was properly received. Representatives of the Bácum community appealed this decision, causing the suspension order preventing Sempra Infrastructure from repairing the damage to the Guaymas-El Oro segment to remain in place until the appeals process was exhausted. Following a request by the CFE to dismiss the appeal based on the plan to re-route the portion of the pipeline that is in the Yaqui territory, in December 2022, the court of appeals reversed the federal district court’s ruling and ordered the district court to issue a new ruling that takes into account the planned re-routing of the pipeline. In February 2023, the district court issued a new ruling and resolved to dismiss the case, which was not appealed and, in March 2023, the district court declared that the case was definitively concluded.

RBS Sempra Commodities – Resolved

Sempra holds an equity method investment in RBS Sempra Commodities, a limited liability partnership in the process of being liquidated. In 2015, liquidators filed a claim in the High Court of Justice against RBS (now NatWest Markets plc, our partner in the JV) and Mercuria Energy Europe Trading Limited (the Defendants) on behalf of 10 companies (the Liquidating Companies) that engaged in carbon credit trading via chains that included a company that traded directly with RBS Sempra Energy Europe, a subsidiary of RBS Sempra Commodities. The claim alleged that the Defendants’ participation in the purchase and sale of carbon credits resulted in the Liquidating Companies’ carbon credit trading transactions creating a VAT liability they were unable to pay, and that the Defendants were liable to provide for equitable compensation due to dishonest assistance and compensation under the U.K. Insolvency Act of 1986. Trial on the matter was held in 2018. In March 2020, the High Court of Justice rendered its judgment mostly in favor of the Liquidating Companies and awarded damages of approximately £45 million (approximately $57 million in U.S. dollars at December 31, 2023), plus costs and interest. In October 2020, the High Court of Justice assessed costs and interest to be approximately £21 million (approximately $27 million in U.S. dollars at December 31, 2023) as of that date, with interest continuing to accrue. The Defendants appealed and, in May 2021, the Court of Appeal set aside the High Court of Justice’s decision and ordered a retrial. In July 2022, the Supreme Court of the U.K. denied the Liquidating Companies application for permission to appeal the Court of Appeal’s decision. In January 2024, the parties settled the Liquidating Companies’ claim against the Defendants; our share of such settlement is approximately £7.9 million (approximately $10 million in U.S. dollars at December 31, 2023).

We recorded $100 million in equity losses from our investment in RBS Sempra Commodities in Equity Earnings on Sempra’s Consolidated Statement of Operations in 2020, which represented an estimate of our obligations to settle pending VAT matters and related legal costs. In 2021, we reduced this estimate by $50 million based on a related settlement with HMRC on the First-Tier Tribunal case and revised assumptions on the High Court of Justice case. For the year ended December 31, 2023, we reduced this estimate by an additional $40 million based on the settlement reached with the Liquidating Companies in January 2024.

Asbestos Claims Against EFH Subsidiaries

Certain EFH subsidiaries that we acquired as part of the merger of EFH with an indirect subsidiary of Sempra were defendants in personal injury lawsuits brought in state courts throughout the U.S. These cases alleged illness or death as a result of exposure to asbestos in power plants designed and/or built by companies whose assets were purchased by predecessor entities to the EFH subsidiaries, and generally assert claims for product defects, negligence, strict liability and wrongful death. They sought compensatory and punitive damages. As of February 20, 2024, no lawsuits are pending. Additionally, approximately 28,000 proofs of claim were filed, but not discharged, in advance of a December 2015 deadline to file a proof of claim in the EFH bankruptcy proceeding on behalf of persons who allege exposure to asbestos under similar circumstances and assert the right to file such lawsuits in the future. The costs to defend or resolve such claims and the amount of damages that may be incurred could have a material adverse effect on Sempra’s results of operations, financial condition, cash flows and/or prospects.

Ordinary Course Litigation

We are also defendants in ordinary routine litigation incidental to our businesses, including personal injury, employment litigation, product liability, property damage and other claims. Juries have demonstrated an increasing willingness to grant large awards, including punitive damages, in these types of cases.

LEASES

A lease exists when a contract conveys the right to control the use of an identified asset for a period of time in exchange for consideration. We determine if an arrangement is or contains a lease at inception of the contract.

Some of our lease agreements contain nonlease components, which represent activities that transfer a separate good or service to the lessee. As the lessee for both operating and finance leases, we have elected to combine lease and nonlease components as a single lease component for real estate, fleet vehicles, helicopters, power generating facilities and pipelines, whereby fixed or in-substance fixed payments allocable to the nonlease component are accounted for as part of the related lease liability and ROU asset. As the lessor, we have elected to combine lease and nonlease components as a single lease component for refined products terminals if the timing and pattern of transfer of the lease and nonlease components are the same and the lease component would be classified as an operating lease if accounted for separately.

Lessee Accounting

We have operating and finance leases for real and personal property (including office space, land, fleet vehicles, helicopters, machinery and equipment, warehouses and other operational facilities) and PPAs with renewable energy, energy storage and peaker plant facilities.

Some of our leases include options to extend the lease terms for up to 25 years, or to terminate the lease withinone year. Our lease liabilities and ROU assets are based on lease terms that may include such options when it is reasonably certain that we will exercise the option.

Certain of our contracts are short-term leases, which have a lease term of 12 months or less at lease commencement. We do not recognize a lease liability or ROU asset arising from short-term leases for all existing classes of underlying assets. In such cases, we recognize short-term lease costs on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Our short-term lease costs for the period reasonably reflect our short-term lease commitments.

Certain of our leases contain escalation clauses requiring annual increases in rent ranging from 2% to 7% or based on the Consumer Price Index. The rentals payable under these leases may increase by a fixed amount each year or by a percentage of a base year. Variable lease payments that are based on an index or rate are included in the initial measurement of our lease liability and ROU asset based on the index or rate at lease commencement and are not remeasured because of changes to the index or rate. Rather, changes to the index or rate are treated as variable lease payments and recognized in the period in which the obligation for those payments is incurred.

Similarly, PPAs for the purchase of renewable energy at SDG&E require lease payments based on a stated rate per MWh produced by the facilities, and we are required to purchase substantially all the output from the facilities. SDG&E is required to pay additional amounts for capacity charges and actual purchases of energy that exceed the minimum energy commitments. Under these contracts, we do not recognize a lease liability or ROU asset for leases for which there are no fixed lease payments. Rather, these variable lease payments are recognized separately as variable lease costs. SDG&E estimates these variable lease payments to be $297 million in 2024, $296 million in 2025, $290 million in 2026, $289 million in 2027, $290 million in 2028 and $2.2 billion thereafter.

As of the lease commencement date, we recognize a lease liability for our obligation to make future lease payments, which we initially measure at present value using our incremental borrowing rate at the date of lease commencement, unless the rate implicit in the lease is readily determinable. We determine our incremental borrowing rate based on the rate of interest that we would have to pay to borrow, on a collateralized basis over a similar term, an amount equal to the lease payments in a similar economic environment. We also record a corresponding ROU asset, initially equal to the lease liability and adjusted for lease payments made at or before lease commencement, lease incentives, and any initial direct costs. We test ROU assets for recoverability whenever events or changes in circumstances have occurred that may affect the recoverability or the estimated useful lives of the ROU assets.

For our operating leases, our non-regulated entities recognize a single lease cost on a straight-line basis over the lease term in operating expenses. SDG&E and SoCalGas recognize this single lease cost on a basis that is consistent with the recovery of such costs in accordance with U.S. GAAP governing rate-regulated operations.

For our finance leases, the interest expense on the lease liability and amortization of the ROU asset are accounted for separately. Our non-regulated entities use the effective interest rate method to account for the imputed interest on the lease liability and amortize the ROU asset on a straight-line basis over the lease term. SDG&E and SoCalGas recognize amortization of the ROU asset on a basis that is consistent with the recovery of such costs in accordance with U.S. GAAP governing rate-regulated operations.

Our leases do not contain any material residual value guarantees, restrictions or covenants.

Classification of ROU assets and lease liabilities and the weighted-average remaining lease term and discount rate associated with operating and finance leases are summarized in the table below.

LESSEE INFORMATION ON THE CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(Dollars in millions)
Sempra · SDG&E · SoCalGas
December 31,
202320222023202220232022
ROU assets:
Operating leases:
ROU assets$723$655$368$281$29$42
Finance leases:
PP&E1,5851,5291,4121,395173133
Accumulated depreciation(246)(186)(179)(140)(66)(46)
PP&E, net1,3391,3431,2331,25510787
Total ROU assets$2,062$1,998$1,601$1,536$136$129
Lease liabilities:
Operating leases:
Other current liabilities(1)$70$53$50$32$10$11
Deferred credits and other(2)5995283252491829
6695813752812840
Finance leases:
Current portion of long-term debt and finance leases645741392318
Long-term debt and finance leases1,2761,2861,1921,2178469
1,3401,3431,2331,25610787
Total lease liabilities$2,009$1,924$1,608$1,537$135$127
Weighted-average remaining lease term (in years):
Operating leases1314101134
Finance leases1516161766
Weighted-average discount rate:
Operating leases(3)6.64%6.21%4.52%4.06%4.54%1.80%
Finance leases13.80%14.04%14.18%14.35%4.94%4.14%

(1)Includes $18 and $8 related to PPAs at December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively, at both Sempra and SDG&E.

(2)Includes $208 and $118 related to PPAs at December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively, at both Sempra and SDG&E.

(3)Weighted-average discount rate related to PPAs at December 31, 2023 and 2022 is 4.19% and 3.35%, respectively, at both Sempra and SDG&E. Weighted-average discount rate related to all other operating leases at December 31, 2023 and 2022 is 7.57% and 6.81%, respectively, at Sempra and 5.06% and 4.63%, respectively, at SDG&E.

The components of lease costs were as follows:

LESSEE INFORMATION ON THE CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS(1)
(Dollars in millions)
Sempra · SDG&E · SoCalGas
Years ended December 31,
202320222021202320222021202320222021
Operating lease costs(2)$99$83$89$53$45$32$13$18$20
Finance lease costs:
Amortization of ROU assets(3)604839403327201512
Interest on lease liabilities182184186177181184522
Total finance lease costs242232225217214211251714
Short-term lease costs(4)937821———
Variable lease costs(4)458411432447399422101110
Total lease costs$808$729$753$725$660$666$48$46$44

(1)Includes costs capitalized in PP&E.

(2)Includes $21, $10, and $1 related to PPAs in 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively, at both Sempra and SDG&E.

(3)Included in O&M, except for $29, $25 and $22 at Sempra and $28, $24 and $21 at SDG&E in 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively, and $1 at SoCalGas in each of 2023, 2022 and 2021, which is included in Depreciation and Amortization Expense.

(4)Short-term leases with variable lease costs are recorded and presented as variable lease costs.

Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities and supplemental noncash information were as follows:

LESSEE INFORMATION ON THE CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Dollars in millions)
Sempra · SDG&E · SoCalGas
Years ended December 31,
202320222021202320222021202320222021
Operating activities:
Cash paid for operating leases$85$88$78$46$45$32$13$18$20
Cash paid for finance leases167169171162166169522
Financing activities:
Cash paid for finance leases604839403327201512
Increase in operating lease obligations for ROU assets143142116134134112—11
Increase in finance lease obligations for investment in PP&E575743171624404119

The table below presents the maturity analysis of our lease liabilities and reconciliation to the present value of lease liabilities at December 31, 2023:

LESSEE MATURITY ANALYSIS OF LIABILITIES
(Dollars in millions)
Sempra · SDG&E · SoCalGas
Operating leases(1) · Finance leases · Operating leases(1) · Finance leases(2) · Operating leases · Finance leases
2024$97$225$57$198$11$27
20258721648193923
20268521348193820
20277521147192—19
20286920442190—14
Thereafter5871,9302011,911—19
Total undiscounted lease payments1,0002,9994432,87728122
Less: imputed interest(331)(1,659)(68)(1,644)—(15)
Total lease liabilities6691,3403751,23328107
Less: current lease liabilities(70)(64)(50)(41)(10)(23)
Long-term lease liabilities$599$1,276$325$1,192$18$84

(1)Includes $27 in each of 2024 through 2028 and $143 thereafter related to PPAs.

(2) Substantially all amounts are related to PPAs.

Leases That Have Not Yet Commenced

SDG&E has entered intosix PPAs, of which SDG&E expects two will commence in 2024, three will commence in 2025, and one will commence in 2026. SDG&E expects the future minimum lease payments to be $30 million in 2024, $59 million in 2025, $80 million in 2026, $82 million in 2027, $81 million in 2028 and $828 million thereafter until expiration in 2041.

Lessor Accounting

Sempra Infrastructure is a lessor for certain of its natural gas and ethane pipelines, compressor stations, LPG storage facilities, a rail facility and refined products terminals, which we account for as operating or sales-type leases. These leases expire at various dates from 2025 through 2042.

Over the lease term, we monitor the underlying assets in operating leases for impairment, and we evaluate the net investment in sales-type leases for expected credit losses. Sempra Infrastructure expects to continue to derive value from the underlying assets associated with its pipelines following the end of their respective lease terms based on the expected remaining useful life, expected market conditions and plans to re-market and re-contract the underlying assets.

Generally, we recognize operating lease income on a straight-line basis over the lease term, and sales-type lease income based on the effective interest method over the lease term. Certain of our leases contain rate adjustments or are based on foreign currency exchange rates that may result in lease payments received that vary in amount from one period to the next. In addition to minimum fixed payments, our refined products terminals receive variable lease payments for barrels delivered that exceed minimum delivery requirements.

In July 2021, a rail facility agreement commenced, which Sempra Infrastructure is accounting for as a sales-type lease. The rail facility is being used by the lessee to transport refined products out of the Veracruz terminal. The lessee has the right to direct the use of the rail facility and will obtain substantially all of the economic benefits of the rail facility. At lease commencement, Sempra Infrastructure derecognized the $44 million carrying value of the rail facility from PP&E and recognized a net investment in sales-type lease asset of $62 million and a selling profit of $18 million. The agreement expires in 2041 and will automatically renew for successive five-year terms unless written notice is provided by Sempra Infrastructure or the lessee. Fixed lease payments are payable in the first five years of the agreement, which the lessee is required to pay even in the event of lease termination.

LESSOR INFORMATION
(Dollars in millions)
December 31,
2023 · 2022
Sempra – Assets subject to operating leases:
Property, plant and equipment:
Pipelines and storage$1,304$1,026
Refined products terminals621611
Other7776
Total2,0021,713
Accumulated depreciation(539)(330)
Property, plant and equipment, net$1,463$1,383
December 31, 2023
Sempra – Maturity analysis of lease payments:Operating leasesSales-type leases
2024$363$17
202535417
20262989
2027295—
2028293—
Thereafter2,802—
Total undiscounted cash flows$4,40543
Less: present value of lease payments (recognized as lease receivable)(1)(40)
Difference between undiscounted cash flows and discounted cash flows$3

(1)Includes $12 in Other Current Assets and $28 in Other Long-Term Assets on the Consolidated Balance Sheet.

LESSOR INFORMATION ON THE CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(Dollars in millions)
Years ended December 31,
202320222021
Sempra – Sales-type leases:
Income recognized at lease commencement$—$—$18
Interest income684
Total revenues from sales-type leases(1)$6$8$22
Sempra – Operating leases:
Fixed lease payments$321$290$256
Variable lease payments341010
Total revenues from operating leases(1)$355$300$266
Depreciation expense$62$54$48

(1)Included in Revenues: Energy-Related Businesses on the Consolidated Statements of Operations.

CONTRACTUAL COMMITMENTS

Natural Gas Contracts

SoCalGas has responsibility for procuring natural gas for both SDG&E’s and SoCalGas’ core customers in a combined portfolio. SoCalGas buys natural gas under short-term and long-term contracts for this portfolio from various producing regions in the southwestern U.S., U.S. Rockies and Canada.

SoCalGas transports natural gas primarily under long-term firm interstate pipeline capacity agreements that provide for annual reservation charges, which are recovered in rates. SoCalGas has commitments with interstate pipeline companies for firm pipeline capacity under contracts that expire at various dates through 2032.

Sempra has various capacity agreements for natural gas storage and transportation that expire at various dates through 2059. Transportation costs on these agreements vary based on pipeline capacity.

Payments on our natural gas contracts could exceed the minimum commitment based on portfolio needs. At December 31, 2023, the future minimum payments under existing natural gas contracts and natural gas storage and transportation contracts are as follows:

FUTURE MINIMUM PAYMENTS
(Dollars in millions)
Sempra · SoCalGas
Storage andtransportation · Natural gas(1) · Total(1) · Transportation · Natural gas · Total
2024$229$54$283$123$28$151
20252054124610135136
2026196—19697—97
2027177—17781—81
2028152—15270—70
Thereafter1,421—1,421176—176
Total minimum payments$2,380$95$2,475$648$63$711

(1) Excludes amounts related to the LNG purchase agreement that we discuss below.

Total payments under natural gas contracts and natural gas storage and transportation contracts as well as payments to meet additional portfolio needs at Sempra and SoCalGas were as follows:

PAYMENTS UNDER NATURAL GAS CONTRACTS
(Dollars in millions)
Years ended December 31,
202320222021
Sempra$4,030$2,536$1,691
SoCalGas3,8572,4921,590

LNG Purchase Agreement

Sempra Infrastructure has an SPA for the supply of LNG to the ECA Regas Facility. The commitment amount is calculated using a predetermined formula based on estimated forward prices of the index applicable from 2024 to 2029. Although this agreement specifies a number of cargoes to be delivered, under its terms, the supplier may divert certain cargoes, which would reduce amounts paid under the agreement by Sempra Infrastructure.

At December 31, 2023, the following LNG commitment amounts are based on the assumption that all LNG cargoes, less those already confirmed to be diverted as of December 31, 2023, under the agreement are delivered:

LNG COMMITMENT AMOUNTS
(Dollars in millions)
Sempra:
2024$370
2025670
2026699
2027704
2028693
Thereafter429
Total$3,565

Actual LNG purchases were approximately $30 million in 2023, $108 million in 2022 and $27 million in 2021 due to the supplier electing to divert cargoes as allowed by the agreement.

PPAs Not Accounted for as Leases

Payments on SDG&E’s PPAs could exceed the minimum commitments based on energy needs. These PPAs expire on various dates through 2042. At December 31, 2023, the future minimum payments under long-term PPAs for Sempra and SDG&E are as follows:

FUTURE MINIMUM PAYMENTS(1)
(Dollars in millions)
2024$148
2025105
2026121
2027103
2028101
Thereafter830
Total minimum payments$1,408

(1)Excludes PPAs accounted for as operating leases and finance leases.

Payments on these contracts represent capacity charges and minimum energy and transmission purchases that exceed the minimum commitment. SDG&E is required to pay additional amounts for actual purchases of energy that exceed the minimum energy commitments. SDG&E estimates these variable payments to be $79 million in both 2024 and 2025, $80 million in each of 2026 through 2028 and $519 million thereafter. Total fixed and variable payments under PPAs not accounted for as leases for Sempra and SDG&E were $325 million in 2023, $297 million in 2022 and $267 million in 2021.

Construction and Development Projects

Our total contractual commitments on various capital projects in progress at December 31, 2023 are approximately $44 million, requiring future payments of $17 million in 2024, $6 million in 2025, $3 million in 2026, $1 million in 2027 and 2028 and $16 million thereafter. The following is a summary of contractual commitments and contingencies related to such projects.

SDG&E

At December 31, 2023, SDG&E has commitments to make future payments of $36 million for construction projects that include:

$21 million related to spent fuel management at SONGS; and

$15 million for infrastructure improvements for electric transmission and distribution systems.

SDG&E expects future payments under these contractual commitments to be $13 million in 2024, $4 million in 2025, $1 million in each of 2026 through 2028 and $16 million thereafter.

At December 31, 2023, SoCalGas has commitments to make future payments of $8 million for an information technology software project. SoCalGas expects future payments under this contractual commitment to be $4 million in 2024, $2 million in each of 2025 and 2026.

OTHER COMMITMENTS

SDG&E

We discuss nuclear insurance and nuclear fuel disposal related to SONGS in Note 15.

Fire Mitigation Fund

In connection with the completion of the Sunrise Powerlink project in 2012, the CPUC required that SDG&E establish a fire mitigation fund to minimize the risk of fire as well as reduce the potential wildfire impact on residences and structures near the Sunrise Powerlink. The future payments for these contractual commitments, for which a liability has been recorded, are expected to be $4 million per year in 2024 through 2028 and $268 million thereafter, subject to escalation of 2% per year, ending in 2069. At December 31, 2023, the present value of these future payments of $124 million has been recorded as a regulatory asset as the amounts represent a cost that we expect will be recovered from customers in the future.

Franchise Agreements

In July 2021, SDG&E’s natural gas and electric franchise agreements for the City of San Diego went into effect. These franchise agreements provide SDG&E the opportunity to serve the City of San Diego for a period of 20 years, consisting of 10-year agreements that will automatically renew for an additional 10 years unless the City Council voids the automatic renewals. At December 31, 2023, SDG&E has commitments to make future principal and interest payments as consideration for the franchise agreements of $14 million in 2024, $15 million in 2025, $4 million in 2026, $2 million in each of 2027 and 2028 and $46 million thereafter. The consideration paid will not be recovered from customers and will be amortized over 20 years.

Additional consideration for a 2006 comprehensive legal settlement with California to resolve the Continental Forge litigation included an agreement that, for a period of 18 years beginning in 2011, Sempra Infrastructure would sell to SDG&E and SoCalGas, subject to annual CPUC approval, up to 500 MMcf per day of regasified LNG from Sempra Infrastructure’s ECA Regas Facility that is not delivered or sold in Mexico at the price indexed to the California border minus $0.02 per MMBtu. There are no specified minimums required, and to date, Sempra Infrastructure has not been required to deliver any natural gas pursuant to this agreement.

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

Our operations are subject to federal, state and local environmental laws. We also are subject to regulations related to hazardous wastes, air and water quality, land use, solid waste disposal and the protection of wildlife. These laws and regulations require that we investigate and correct the effects of the release or disposal of materials at sites associated with our past and our present operations. These sites include those at which we have been identified as a PRP under the federal Superfund laws and similar state laws.

In addition, we are required to obtain numerous governmental permits, licenses and other approvals to construct facilities and operate our businesses. The related costs of environmental monitoring, pollution control equipment, cleanup costs, and emissions fees are significant. Increasing national and international concerns regarding global warming and mercury, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide emissions could result in requirements for additional pollution control equipment or significant emissions fees or taxes that could adversely affect Sempra Infrastructure. SDG&E’s and SoCalGas’ costs to operate their facilities in compliance with these laws and regulations generally have been recovered in customer rates.

We disclose any proceeding under environmental laws to which a government authority is a party when the potential monetary sanctions, exclusive of interest and costs, exceed the lesser of $1 million or 1% of current assets, which was $55 million for Sempra, $18 million for SDG&E and $26 million for SoCalGas at December 31, 2023.

We discuss environmental matters related to the natural gas leak at SoCalGas’ Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility above in “Legal Proceedings – SoCalGas – Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Storage Facility Gas Leak.”

Other Environmental Issues

We generally capitalize the significant costs we incur to mitigate or prevent future environmental contamination or extend the life, increase the capacity, or improve the safety or efficiency of property used in current operations. The following table shows our capital expenditures (including construction work in progress) in order to comply with environmental laws and regulations:

CAPITAL EXPENDITURES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
(Dollars in millions)
Years ended December 31,
202320222021
Sempra$107$87$95
SDG&E293132
SoCalGas785663

We have not identified any significant environmental issues outside the U.S.

At SDG&E and SoCalGas, costs that relate to current operations or an existing condition caused by past operations are generally recorded as a regulatory asset due to the probability that these costs will be recovered in rates.

The environmental issues currently facing us, except for those related to the Leak as we discuss above or resolved during the last three years, include (1) investigation and remediation of SDG&E’s and SoCalGas’ manufactured-gas sites, (2) cleanup of third-party waste-disposal sites used by SDG&E and SoCalGas at which we have been identified as a PRP and (3) mitigation of damage to the marine environment caused by the cooling-water discharge from SONGS.

The table below shows the status at December 31, 2023 of SDG&E’s and SoCalGas’ manufactured-gas sites and the third-party waste-disposal sites for which we have been identified as a PRP:

STATUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SITES
# Sitescomplete(1)# Sitesin process
SDG&E:
Manufactured-gas sites3—
Third-party waste-disposal sites21
SoCalGas:
Manufactured-gas sites393
Third-party waste-disposal sites52

(1) There may be ongoing compliance obligations for completed sites, such as regular inspections, adherence to land use covenants and water quality monitoring.

We record environmental liabilities when our liability is probable and the costs can be reasonably estimated. In many cases, however, investigations are not yet at a stage where we can determine whether we are liable or, if the liability is probable, to reasonably estimate the amount or range of amounts of the costs. Estimates of our liability are further subject to uncertainties such as the nature and extent of site contamination, evolving cleanup standards and imprecise engineering evaluations. We review our accruals periodically and, as investigations and cleanups proceed, we make adjustments as necessary.

The following table shows our accrued liabilities for environmental matters at December 31, 2023. Of the total liability, $10 million at SoCalGas is recorded on a discounted basis, with a weighted-average discount rate of 2.5%.

ACCRUED LIABILITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS
(Dollars in millions)
Sempra(1)(2)SDG&E(1)SoCalGas(2)
Manufactured-gas sites$33$—$33
Waste disposal sites (PRP)(3)853
Other hazardous waste sites12111
Total(4)$53$16$37

(1) Does not include SDG&E’s liability for SONGS marine environment mitigation.

(2)Does not include SoCalGas’ liability for environmental matters for the Leak. We discuss matters related to the Leak above in “Legal Proceedings – SoCalGas – Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Storage Facility Gas Leak.”

(3)Sites for which we have been identified as a PRP.

(4) Includes $5 classified as current liabilities on both Sempra’s and SoCalGas’ Consolidated Balance Sheets and $48, $16 and $32 classified asnoncurrent liabilities on Sempra’s, SDG&E’s and SoCalGas’ Consolidated Balance Sheets, respectively.

We expect future payments related to our environmental liabilities on an undiscounted basis to be $5 million in 2024, $9 million in 2025, $7 million in 2026, $1 million in 2027, $17 million in 2028 and $19 million thereafter.

In connection with the issuance of operating permits, SDG&E and the other owners of SONGS previously reached an agreement with the California Coastal Commission to mitigate the damage to the marine environment caused by the cooling-water discharge from SONGS during its operation. SONGS’ early retirement, described in Note 15, does not reduce SDG&E’s mitigation obligation. SDG&E’s share of the estimated mitigation costs is $144 million, of which $55 million has been incurred through December 31, 2023 and $89 million is accrued for remaining costs through 2059, which is recoverable in rates and included in noncurrent Regulatory Assets on Sempra’s and SDG&E’s Consolidated Balance Sheets.

NOTE 17. SEMPRA –SEGMENT INFORMATION

Sempra hasthree separately managed reportable segments, as follows:

Sempra California provides natural gas and electric service to Southern California and part of central California through Sempra’s wholly owned subsidiaries, SDG&E and SoCalGas.

Sempra Texas Utilities holds our investment in Oncor Holdings, which owns an 80.25% interest in Oncor, a regulated electric transmission and distribution utility serving customers in the north-central, eastern, western and panhandle regions of Texas; and our indirect 50% interest in Sharyland Holdings, which owns Sharyland Utilities, a regulated electric transmission utility serving customers near the Texas-Mexico border.

Sempra Infrastructure includes the operating companies of our subsidiary, SI Partners, as well as a holding company and certain services companies. Sempra Infrastructure develops, builds, operates and invests in energy infrastructure to help enable the energy transition in North American markets and globally. Sempra Infrastructure owns a 70% interest in SI Partners.

The cost of common services shared by the business segments is assigned directly or allocated based on various cost factors, depending on the nature of the service provided. Interest income and expense is recorded on intercompany loans. The loan balances and related interest are eliminated in consolidation.

The following tables show selected information by segment from our Consolidated Balance Sheets, Consolidated Statements of Operations and Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows. We provide information about our equity method investments by segment in Note 6. Amounts labeled as “All other” in the following tables consist primarily of activities of parent organizations.

SEGMENT INFORMATION
(Dollars in millions)
December 31,
20232022
ASSETS
Sempra California$53,430$48,696
Sempra Texas Utilities14,39213,781
Sempra Infrastructure19,43015,760
All other9671,376
Intersegment receivables(1,038)(1,039)
Total$87,181$78,574
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
Long-lived assets(1):
United States$62,324$55,035
Mexico9,1458,423
Asia11
Total$71,470$63,459

(1)Includes net PP&E and investments.

SEGMENT INFORMATION (CONTINUED)
(Dollars in millions)
Years ended December 31,
202320222021
REVENUES
Sempra California$13,761$12,577$10,926
Sempra Infrastructure3,0711,9191,997
All other115
Adjustments and eliminations(1)(1)—
Intersegment revenues(1)(112)(57)(71)
Total$16,720$14,439$12,857
DEPRECIATION AND AMORTIZATION
Sempra California$1,937$1,743$1,605
Sempra Infrastructure281268239
All other9811
Total$2,227$2,019$1,855
INTEREST INCOME
Sempra California$24$11$2
Sempra Infrastructure434475
All other23203
Intercompany eliminations(1)—(11)
Total$89$75$69
INTEREST EXPENSE
Sempra California$782$647$569
Sempra Texas Utilities1——
Sempra Infrastructure129104205
All other400306444
Intercompany eliminations(3)(3)(20)
Total$1,309$1,054$1,198
INCOME TAX (BENEFIT) EXPENSE
Sempra California$(31)$320$(109)
Sempra Texas Utilities1——
Sempra Infrastructure673249238
All other(153)(13)(30)
Total$490$556$99
EARNINGS (LOSSES) ATTRIBUTABLE TO COMMON SHARES
Sempra California$1,747$1,514$392
Sempra Texas Utilities694736616
Sempra Infrastructure877310682
All other(288)(466)(436)
Total$3,030$2,094$1,254
EXPENDITURES FOR PROPERTY, PLANT & EQUIPMENT
Sempra California$4,560$4,466$4,204
Sempra Infrastructure3,832884802
All other579
Total$8,397$5,357$5,015
GEOGRAPHIC REVENUES(2)
United States$14,973$13,015$11,154
Mexico1,7471,4241,703
Total$16,720$14,439$12,857

(1)Revenues for reportable segments include intersegment revenues of $18 and $94 for 2023; $14 and $43 for 2022; and $16 and $55 for 2021 for Sempra California and Sempra Infrastructure, respectively.

(2)Amounts are based on where the revenue originated, after intercompany eliminations.

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