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Long Term Debt
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Mar. 31, 2015
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| Debt Disclosure [Abstract] | |
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LONG-TERM DEBT
Variable-Rate Construction and Term Loans
In October 2012, the Company entered into a credit and guaranty agreement with two banks for use in providing limited recourse financing for certain of its landfill gas to energy and solar PV projects. The credit and guaranty agreement provides for a $47,234 construction-to-term loan credit facility and bears interest at a variable rate. The loans were fully converted to term loans during the year ended December 31, 2014. At March 31, 2015, $40,530 was outstanding under the term loans. The weighted average rate for these loans at March 31, 2015 was 3.255%.
Senior Secured Credit Facility - Revolver and Term Loan
On June 30, 2011, the Company entered into an amended and restated credit and security agreement with two banks consisting of a $60,000 revolving credit facility and a $40,000 term loan. The revolving credit facility may be increased up to an additional $25,000 at the Company’s option, if the lenders agree. The facility matures on June 30, 2016, and all remaining unpaid amounts outstanding under the facility will be due at that time. At March 31, 2015, $18,571 was outstanding under the term loan and $3,000 was outstanding under the revolving credit facility. Payments on the term loan are due in quarterly principal installments of $1,429 together with accrued but unpaid interest, with all remaining unpaid principal amounts due June 30, 2016. The Company is the sole borrower under the facility and its obligations are guaranteed by certain of the Company’s subsidiaries and are secured by a lien on all of the assets of the Company other than renewable energy projects that the Company owns and that are financed by others. The agreement contains certain financial covenants.
On March 12, 2014, the Company amended the senior secured credit facility as follows: (i) to increase the margins added to Bank of America’s prime rate or the one-, two- three- or six-month London interbank deposit rate, as applicable, in determining the interest rate by 25 basis points to 0.50% and 2.00%, respectively; (ii) to waive compliance with the minimum EBITDA covenant for the four consecutive fiscal quarters ended December 31, 2013; (iii) to reduce the required minimum EBITDA amount to $16,500 for the four consecutive fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2014, $22,000 for the four consecutive fiscal quarters ended June 30, 2014, $24,000 for the four consecutive fiscal quarters ended September 30, 2014, and $27,000 for the four consecutive fiscal quarters ended December 31, 2014 and thereafter; (iv) to increase the maximum ratio of total funded debt to EBITDA as of the end of each fiscal quarter to 2.5 to 1.0 for March 31, 2014 and 2.25 to 1.0 for June 30, 2014, returning to 2.0 to 1.0 for September 30, 2014 and thereafter; and (v) to reduce the minimum ratio of cash flow to debt service to 1.25 to 1.0 for the four fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2014, returning to 1.5 to 1.0 for the four fiscal quarters ended June 30, 2014 and thereafter.
For purposes of the Company’s senior secured facility: EBITDA excludes the results of certain renewable energy projects that the Company owns and for which financing from others remains outstanding; total funded debt includes amounts outstanding under both the term loan and revolver portions of the senior secured credit facility plus other indebtedness, but excludes non-recourse indebtedness of project company subsidiaries; cash flow is based on EBITDA as used in the facility, less capital expenditures (other than by project company subsidiaries that are not guarantors under the facility), certain taxes, and dividends and other distributions; and debt service includes principal and interest payments on the indebtedness included in total funded debt other than principal payments on the revolver portion of the facility.
At March 31, 2015, the Company was in compliance with all financial and operational covenants.
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