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Essential Utilities WTRG Regulatory Asset
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Reported directly by Essential Utilities in its filing.
Tagged under the XBRL concept us-gaap:RegulatoryAssets.
The source filing: Essential Utilities’s 10-K, filed February 26, 2026.
- Filed
- Feb 26, 2026, 3:16 PM EST
- Fiscal year
- FY2025
- Accession
- 0000078128-26-000050
| Line item | December 31, 2025 / Regulatory / Assets | December 31, 2025 / Regulatory / Liabilities | December 31, 2024 / Regulatory / Assets | December 31, 2024 / Regulatory / Liabilities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Utility plant retirement costs | 39,928 | 81,918 | 29,146 | 75,270 |
| Post-retirement benefits | 66,302 | 158,627 | 80,875 | 160,851 |
| Accrued vacation | 451 | - | 418 | - |
| Water tank painting | 12,357 | - | 11,242 | - |
| Fair value adjustment of long-term debt assumed in acquisition | 23,234 | - | 30,603 | - |
| Debt refinancing | 10,595 | - | 11,587 | - |
| Rate case filing expenses and other | 41,161 | 23,229 | 42,689 | 1,325 |
| $$2,109,448 | $714,487 | $1,940,640 | 766,515 |
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
FAQ
- What is Essential Utilities's regulatory asset?
- Essential Utilities (WTRG) reported regulatory asset of $2.11B in Q4 2025.
- How has Essential Utilities's regulatory asset changed year-over-year?
- Essential Utilities's regulatory asset increased by 8.7% year-over-year, from $1.94B to $2.11B.
- What is the long-term trend for Essential Utilities's regulatory asset?
- Over 5 years (2020 to 2025), Essential Utilities's regulatory asset has grown at a 9.0% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from $1.37B to $2.11B.
- What does regulatory asset mean?
- Regulatory assets represent costs that a utility company has incurred but is permitted to recover from customers through future rates. These assets arise from regulatory accounting standards where the timing of expense recognition for financial reporting differs from the timing of rate recovery. This reflects the company's right to collect these costs over time as approved by public utility commissions.
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