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<title>nep-20201218</title></head><body><div style="display:none"><ix:header><ix:hidden><ix:nonNumeric contextRef="i5ab6061154cf4f8bae10e5863948edd8_D20201218-20201218" name="dei:AmendmentFlag" id="id3VybDovL2RvY3MudjEvZG9jOjk1MmNkMjk3MzYxNTQ1OGVhNWE1NGEyZmRiZDIwMTQ2L3NlYzo5NTJjZDI5NzM2MTU0NThlYTVhNTRhMmZkYmQyMDE0Nl80L2ZyYWc6YWZkZmI0ZWJhM2Y2NDI4OThiMTMyODM0YjYzZjg4ODUvdGFibGU6OGE3N2I1YThiZTg0NDM3NzgzM2JjYWQ3OGYxNWQyOWEvdGFibGVyYW5nZTo4YTc3YjVhOGJlODQ0Mzc3ODMzYmNhZDc4ZjE1ZDI5YV8wLTEtMS0xLTA_a7e382bd-89f5-4a54-9d1a-70b2eb7258ca">false</ix:nonNumeric><ix:nonNumeric contextRef="i5ab6061154cf4f8bae10e5863948edd8_D20201218-20201218" name="dei:EntityCentralIndexKey" 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style="min-height:42.75pt;width:100%"><div><span><br/></span></div></div><div style="margin-top:5pt;text-align:center"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:99.415%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:48.311%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:49.489%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr style="height:110pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"><div><img src="nep-20201218_g1.jpg" alt="nep-20201218_g1.jpg" style="height:134px;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:270px"/></div></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr></table></div><div style="text-align:center"><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Washington, D.C. 20549</span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:14pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">FORM <ix:nonNumeric contextRef="i5ab6061154cf4f8bae10e5863948edd8_D20201218-20201218" name="dei:DocumentType" id="id3VybDovL2RvY3MudjEvZG9jOjk1MmNkMjk3MzYxNTQ1OGVhNWE1NGEyZmRiZDIwMTQ2L3NlYzo5NTJjZDI5NzM2MTU0NThlYTVhNTRhMmZkYmQyMDE0Nl8xL2ZyYWc6OGViZGNlZjllNjA3NDkxODg3ZTE5MDhlN2U0NGI2YWYvdGV4dHJlZ2lvbjo4ZWJkY2VmOWU2MDc0OTE4ODdlMTkwOGU3ZTQ0YjZhZl84Nw_131ac36c-b233-4d3b-aaf8-f364f078d663">8-K</ix:nonNumeric> </span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">CURRENT REPORT</span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)</span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934</span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Date of earliest event reported:</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">&#160;&#160;</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"><ix:nonNumeric 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style="min-height:42.75pt;width:100%"><div><span><br/></span></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">EXPLANATORY NOTE</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">On December 18, 2020, an indirect subsidiary of NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NEP) completed the acquisition (the acquisition) of 100% of the membership interests in Wilmot Energy Center, LLC (Wilmot) and 100% of the Class C membership interests in Pine Brooke Class A Holdings, LLC (Pine Brooke Holdings) pursuant to the previously announced purchase and sale agreement with NEP US SellCo, LLC (the seller) and ESI Energy, LLC, both of which are subsidiaries of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC (NEER), filed as Exhibits 2.2 and 2.3 to NEP's Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on November 6, 2020 (the Purchase Agreement 8-K). The purchase price consisted of cash consideration of approximately $374 million, plus working capital and other adjustments of approximately $4 million (subject to certain post-closing adjustments). NEP expects to subsequently receive proceeds from the sale of differential membership interests in Wilmot to result in net consideration of approximately $324 million. Wilmot is an approximately 100 megawatt (MW) solar generation facility and 30 MW energy storage system under construction in Arizona with an expected in service date in early 2021. The Class C membership interests in Pine Brooke Holdings represent an indirect 40% noncontrolling ownership interest in each of:</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span><br/></span></div><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;     Soldier Creek Wind, LLC, a project company that owns an approximately 300 MW wind generation facility located in Kansas;</span></div><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;     Ponderosa Wind, LLC, a project company that owns an approximately 200 MW wind generation facility located in Oklahoma;</span></div><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;     Blue Summit III Wind, LLC, a project company that owns an approximately 200 MW wind generation facility located in Texas;</span></div><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;     Saint Solar, LLC, a project company that owns an approximately 100 MW solar generation facility located in Arizona;</span></div><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;     Taylor Creek Solar, LLC, a project company that owns an approximately 75 MW solar generation facility located in Florida;</span></div><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;     Harmony Florida Solar, LLC, a project company that owns an approximately 75 MW solar generation facility located in</span></div><div style="padding-left:15.84pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Florida; and</span></div><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;     Sanford Airport Solar, LLC, a project company that owns an approximately 49 MW solar generation facility located in Maine.</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Additionally, on December 18, 2020, Genesis Solar Holdings, LLC (Genesis Holdings), an indirect subsidiary of NEP, issued and sold non-controlling Class B membership interests in Genesis Holdings for $750 million of cash consideration (the initial Class B investment) to investors (investors) affiliated with funds managed by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &amp; Co. L.P. (together with its affiliates, KKR) pursuant to the previously announced membership interest purchase agreement filed as Exhibit 2.1 to the Purchase Agreement 8-K. Genesis Holdings indirectly owns 100% of the Class A membership interests of entities that own: (1) Genesis Solar Energy Center, an approximately 250 MW solar generation facility located in California; (2) Elk City Wind Energy Center, an approximately 99 MW wind generation facility located in Oklahoma; (3) Northern Colorado Wind Energy Center, an approximately 174 MW wind generation facility located in Colorado; and (4) Baldwin Wind Energy Center, an approximately 100 MW wind generation facility located in North Dakota, as well as the membership interests purchased in the acquisition. Genesis Funding, LLC, an indirect subsidiary of NEP, retained 100% of the controlling Class A membership interest in Genesis Holdings, as well as certain Class B membership interests in Genesis Holdings which will be sold to the investors at a final funding expected to occur in early 2021 (the final Class B funding). NEP will consolidate Genesis Holdings.</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">In connection with the initial Class B investment, the limited liability company agreement for Genesis Holdings was amended and restated (as so amended and restated, the LLC agreement). Under the LLC agreement, NEP, through its indirect ownership of Genesis Funding, will receive 75% of Genesis Holdings&#8217; cash distributions for the first ten years after the initial closing, and the investors will receive 25%, except that, until the final Class B funding, NEP will receive approximately 83% of Genesis Holdings&#8217; cash distributions and the investors will receive 17%. From the fifth to the tenth anniversary of the initial funding, NEP has the option (the buyout right), subject to certain limitations, to periodically purchase the investors' class B membership interests in Genesis Holdings at a buyout price that implies a fixed pre-tax annual return of approximately 6.75% to the investors (inclusive of all prior distributions). If exercised, NEP has the right to pay 100% of the buyout price in NEP non-voting common units, issued at the then-current market price of NEP common units, or cash (or a combination thereof), subject to limitations described in the LLC agreement. If certain minimum buyouts have not occurred following September 18, 2027, the investors' allocation of Genesis Holdings' cash distributions with respect to the Class B membership interests that the investors still own would increase to 99%, but after December 18, 2030, the investors' allocation of Genesis Holdings' cash distributions with respect to the Class B membership interests that the investors still own would decrease to 80%, subject to certain adjustments. Under a registration rights agreement entered into on December 18, 2020, the investors have certain rights, beginning January 1, 2028, and continuing until March 31, 2032, to require NEP, under certain circumstances, to initiate underwritten offerings for NEP common units issued upon conversion of any NEP non-voting common units received by the investors upon an exercise by NEP of its buyout right.</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Following any exercise of the buyout right in which NEP issues non-voting common units, the investors will have, among other rights, the right to receive pro rata quarterly cash distributions with respect to those NEP non-voting common units they own and the right, subject to certain limitations, to convert the NEP non-voting common units into NEP common units on a one-for-one basis.</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Set forth below are responses to the applicable Items of Form 8-K that are implicated by the transactions described above.</span></div><div style="height:42.75pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><span><br/></span></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"/><div style="min-height:42.75pt;width:100%"><div><span><br/></span></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SECTION 1 - REGISTRANT&#8217;S BUSINESS AND OPERATIONS</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Item 1.01  Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The information set forth in the Explanatory Note of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 1.01 and qualified in its entirety by the text of the LLC agreement, which is included as Exhibit 10.1 hereto and incorporated by reference herein.</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span><br/></span></div><div id="i952cd2973615458ea5a54a2fdbd20146_10"></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SECTION 3 - SECURITIES AND TRADING MARKETS</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Item 3.02  Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The information set forth in the Explanatory Note of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 3.02. The non-controlling Class B membership interests in Genesis Holdings were sold to the investors in reliance upon an exemption from the registration requirements provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.</span></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div id="i952cd2973615458ea5a54a2fdbd20146_140"></div><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Item 3.03 Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The information set forth in the Explanatory Note of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 3.03 and qualified in its entirety by the text of the relevant agreement, which is included as Exhibit 10.1 hereto and incorporated by reference herein.</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The general effect of the issuance and sale to the investors of the non-controlling Class B membership interests in Genesis Holdings upon the rights of the holders of the common units of NEP is described in the Explanatory Note, which description is incorporated by reference herein.</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span><br/></span></div><div id="i952cd2973615458ea5a54a2fdbd20146_146"></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SECTION 8 - OTHER EVENTS</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Item 8.01 Other Events</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The information set forth in the Explanatory Note of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 8.01.</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span><br/></span></div><div id="i952cd2973615458ea5a54a2fdbd20146_13"></div><div style="-sec-extract:summary;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:174%">SECTION 9 - FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:174%">Item 9.01  Financial Statements and Exhibits</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(d) Exhibits.</span></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div style="margin-top:5pt;padding-left:18pt"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:94.736%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:8.004%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:0.571%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:89.025%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Exhibit<br/>Number</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Description</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cceeff;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">10.1</span></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cceeff;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cceeff;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%;text-decoration:underline"><a style="-sec-extract:exhibit;color:#0000ff;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%;text-decoration:underline" href="exhibit101tonepdated12x18x.htm">Third Amended and Restated Limit</a><a style="-sec-extract:exhibit;color:#0000ff;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%;text-decoration:underline" href="exhibit101tonepdated12x18x.htm">ed</a><a style="-sec-extract:exhibit;color:#0000ff;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%;text-decoration:underline" href="exhibit101tonepdated12x18x.htm"> Liability</a><a style="-sec-extract:exhibit;color:#0000ff;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%;text-decoration:underline" href="exhibit101tonepdated12x18x.htm"> Company Agreement of Genesis Solar Holdings, LLC</a><a style="-sec-extract:exhibit;color:#0000ff;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%;text-decoration:underline" href="exhibit101tonepdated12x18x.htm">, dated as of December 18, 2020</a></span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">101</span></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">Interactive data files for this Form 8-K formatted in Inline XBRL</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cceeff;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">104</span></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cceeff;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cceeff;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101)</span></td></tr></table></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div id="i952cd2973615458ea5a54a2fdbd20146_16"></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div style="height:42.75pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><span><br/></span></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"/><div style="min-height:42.75pt;width:100%"><div><span><br/></span></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SIGNATURES</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span><br/></span></div><div style="margin-bottom:7pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Date:&#160;&#160;December 22, 2020</span></div><div style="margin-top:5pt;text-align:center"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:201.00pt"><tr><td style="width:1.0pt"></td><td style="width:19.00pt"></td><td style="width:1.0pt"></td><td style="width:1.0pt"></td><td style="width:178.00pt"></td><td style="width:1.0pt"></td></tr><tr style="height:14pt"><td colspan="6" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">NEXTERA ENERGY PARTNERS, LP</span></td></tr><tr style="height:14pt"><td colspan="6" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">(Registrant)</span></td></tr><tr style="height:15pt"><td colspan="6" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr style="height:15pt"><td colspan="6" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr style="height:15pt"><td colspan="6" style="border-bottom:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">JAMES M. MAY</span></td></tr><tr style="height:30pt"><td colspan="6" style="border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">James M. May<br/>Controller and Chief Accounting Officer</span></td></tr></table></div><div style="height:42.75pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">2</span></div></div></div></body></html>
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nep-20201218
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM
8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of earliest event reported:
December 18, 2020
Commission
File
Number
Exact name of registrant as specified in its
charter, address of principal executive offices and
registrant's telephone number
IRS Employer
Identification
Number
1-36518
NEXTERA ENERGY PARTNERS, LP
30-0818558
700 Universe Boulevard
Juno Beach
,
Florida
33408
(
561
)
694-4000
State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization:
Delaware
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
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Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
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Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
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Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
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Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each class
Trading Symbol
Name of exchange
on which registered
Common Units
NEP
New York Stock Exchange
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).
Emerging growth company
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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
On December 18, 2020, an indirect subsidiary of NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NEP) completed the acquisition (the acquisition) of 100% of the membership interests in Wilmot Energy Center, LLC (Wilmot) and 100% of the Class C membership interests in Pine Brooke Class A Holdings, LLC (Pine Brooke Holdings) pursuant to the previously announced purchase and sale agreement with NEP US SellCo, LLC (the seller) and ESI Energy, LLC, both of which are subsidiaries of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC (NEER), filed as Exhibits 2.2 and 2.3 to NEP's Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on November 6, 2020 (the Purchase Agreement 8-K). The purchase price consisted of cash consideration of approximately $374 million, plus working capital and other adjustments of approximately $4 million (subject to certain post-closing adjustments). NEP expects to subsequently receive proceeds from the sale of differential membership interests in Wilmot to result in net consideration of approximately $324 million. Wilmot is an approximately 100 megawatt (MW) solar generation facility and 30 MW energy storage system under construction in Arizona with an expected in service date in early 2021. The Class C membership interests in Pine Brooke Holdings represent an indirect 40% noncontrolling ownership interest in each of:
•     Soldier Creek Wind, LLC, a project company that owns an approximately 300 MW wind generation facility located in Kansas;
•     Ponderosa Wind, LLC, a project company that owns an approximately 200 MW wind generation facility located in Oklahoma;
•     Blue Summit III Wind, LLC, a project company that owns an approximately 200 MW wind generation facility located in Texas;
•     Saint Solar, LLC, a project company that owns an approximately 100 MW solar generation facility located in Arizona;
•     Taylor Creek Solar, LLC, a project company that owns an approximately 75 MW solar generation facility located in Florida;
•     Harmony Florida Solar, LLC, a project company that owns an approximately 75 MW solar generation facility located in
Florida; and
•     Sanford Airport Solar, LLC, a project company that owns an approximately 49 MW solar generation facility located in Maine.
Additionally, on December 18, 2020, Genesis Solar Holdings, LLC (Genesis Holdings), an indirect subsidiary of NEP, issued and sold non-controlling Class B membership interests in Genesis Holdings for $750 million of cash consideration (the initial Class B investment) to investors (investors) affiliated with funds managed by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (together with its affiliates, KKR) pursuant to the previously announced membership interest purchase agreement filed as Exhibit 2.1 to the Purchase Agreement 8-K. Genesis Holdings indirectly owns 100% of the Class A membership interests of entities that own: (1) Genesis Solar Energy Center, an approximately 250 MW solar generation facility located in California; (2) Elk City Wind Energy Center, an approximately 99 MW wind generation facility located in Oklahoma; (3) Northern Colorado Wind Energy Center, an approximately 174 MW wind generation facility located in Colorado; and (4) Baldwin Wind Energy Center, an approximately 100 MW wind generation facility located in North Dakota, as well as the membership interests purchased in the acquisition. Genesis Funding, LLC, an indirect subsidiary of NEP, retained 100% of the controlling Class A membership interest in Genesis Holdings, as well as certain Class B membership interests in Genesis Holdings which will be sold to the investors at a final funding expected to occur in early 2021 (the final Class B funding). NEP will consolidate Genesis Holdings.
In connection with the initial Class B investment, the limited liability company agreement for Genesis Holdings was amended and restated (as so amended and restated, the LLC agreement). Under the LLC agreement, NEP, through its indirect ownership of Genesis Funding, will receive 75% of Genesis Holdings' cash distributions for the first ten years after the initial closing, and the investors will receive 25%, except that, until the final Class B funding, NEP will receive approximately 83% of Genesis Holdings' cash distributions and the investors will receive 17%. From the fifth to the tenth anniversary of the initial funding, NEP has the option (the buyout right), subject to certain limitations, to periodically purchase the investors' class B membership interests in Genesis Holdings at a buyout price that implies a fixed pre-tax annual return of approximately 6.75% to the investors (inclusive of all prior distributions). If exercised, NEP has the right to pay 100% of the buyout price in NEP non-voting common units, issued at the then-current market price of NEP common units, or cash (or a combination thereof), subject to limitations described in the LLC agreement. If certain minimum buyouts have not occurred following September 18, 2027, the investors' allocation of Genesis Holdings' cash distributions with respect to the Class B membership interests that the investors still own would increase to 99%, but after December 18, 2030, the investors' allocation of Genesis Holdings' cash distributions with respect to the Class B membership interests that the investors still own would decrease to 80%, subject to certain adjustments. Under a registration rights agreement entered into on December 18, 2020, the investors have certain rights, beginning January 1, 2028, and continuing until March 31, 2032, to require NEP, under certain circumstances, to initiate underwritten offerings for NEP common units issued upon conversion of any NEP non-voting common units received by the investors upon an exercise by NEP of its buyout right.
Following any exercise of the buyout right in which NEP issues non-voting common units, the investors will have, among other rights, the right to receive pro rata quarterly cash distributions with respect to those NEP non-voting common units they own and the right, subject to certain limitations, to convert the NEP non-voting common units into NEP common units on a one-for-one basis.
Set forth below are responses to the applicable Items of Form 8-K that are implicated by the transactions described above.
SECTION 1 - REGISTRANT'S BUSINESS AND OPERATIONS
Item 1.01  Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
The information set forth in the Explanatory Note of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 1.01 and qualified in its entirety by the text of the LLC agreement, which is included as Exhibit 10.1 hereto and incorporated by reference herein.
SECTION 3 - SECURITIES AND TRADING MARKETS
Item 3.02  Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities
The information set forth in the Explanatory Note of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 3.02. The non-controlling Class B membership interests in Genesis Holdings were sold to the investors in reliance upon an exemption from the registration requirements provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Item 3.03 Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders
The information set forth in the Explanatory Note of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 3.03 and qualified in its entirety by the text of the relevant agreement, which is included as Exhibit 10.1 hereto and incorporated by reference herein.
The general effect of the issuance and sale to the investors of the non-controlling Class B membership interests in Genesis Holdings upon the rights of the holders of the common units of NEP is described in the Explanatory Note, which description is incorporated by reference herein.
SECTION 8 - OTHER EVENTS
Item 8.01 Other Events
The information set forth in the Explanatory Note of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 8.01.
SECTION 9 - FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS
Item 9.01  Financial Statements and Exhibits
(d) Exhibits.
Exhibit
Number
Description
10.1
Third Amended and Restated Limit
ed
Liability
Company Agreement of Genesis Solar Holdings, LLC
, dated as of December 18, 2020
101
Interactive data files for this Form 8-K formatted in Inline XBRL
104
Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101)
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
Date:  December 22, 2020
NEXTERA ENERGY PARTNERS, LP
(Registrant)
JAMES M. MAY
James M. May
Controller and Chief Accounting Officer
2