Acquisition of American DG Energy Inc. (Notes) |
12 Months Ended |
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Dec. 31, 2020 | |
| Business Combinations [Abstract] | |
| Acquisition of American DG Energy Inc. | Acquisition of American DG Energy Inc. On May 18, 2017, we completed our acquisition, by means of a stock-for-stock merger, of 100% of the outstanding common shares of American DG Energy Inc. (“American DG Energy" or "ADGE”), a company which installs, owns, operates and maintains complete distributed generation of electricity systems, or DG systems or energy systems, and other complementary systems at customer sites and sells electricity, hot water, heat and cooling energy under long-term contracts at prices guaranteed to the customer to be below conventional utility rates, by means of a merger of one of our wholly owned subsidiaries with and into ADGE such that ADGE became a wholly owned subsidiary of Tecogen. We acquired ADGE to, among other reasons, expand our product offerings and benefit directly from the long-term contracted revenue streams generated by these installations. We gained control of ADGE on May 18, 2017 by issuing shares of our Common Stock to the prior stockholders of ADGE.
Acquisition related costs, which was largely legal costs related to the litigation that followed the merger, were included in general and administrative expenses and totaled $322,566 for the year ended December 31, 2018. Stock issuance related costs totaling $377,246 were netted against additional paid in capital during the year ended December 31, 2018.
Goodwill of $13.3 million arising from the acquisition is primarily attributable to the going concern element of ADGE’s business, including its assembled workforce and the long-term contractual nature of its business, as well as expected cost synergies from the merger related primarily to the elimination of administrative overhead and duplicative personnel. None of the goodwill recognized is expected to be deductible for income tax purposes.
The favorable contract asset and the unfavorable contract liability, both of which relate to existing customer contracts, and the estimated amortization are more fully described in Note 7. "Intangible assets and liabilities other than goodwill".
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