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Income Taxes (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2014
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract] |
Summary of Effective Tax Rates | The effective tax rates from continuing operations for each of the Duke Energy Registrants are included in the following table.
| Three Months Ended September 30, |  | Nine Months Ended September 30,
| 2014 |  |  | 2013 |  |  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |
Duke Energy | 34.0 | % |  | 30.9 | % |  | 31.4 | % |  | 32.3 | %
Duke Energy Carolinas | 33.9 | % |  | 37.9 | % |  | 33.7 | % |  | 37.5 | %
Progress Energy | 37.1 | % |  | 38.8 | % |  | 37.3 | % |  | 38.1 | %
Duke Energy Progress | 36.3 | % |  | 35.7 | % |  | 36.6 | % |  | 37.3 | %
Duke Energy Florida | 38.5 | % |  | 40.0 | % |  | 38.6 | % |  | 40.0 | %
Duke Energy Ohio | 38.3 | % |  | 35.9 | % |  | 34.9 | % |  | 36.5 | %
Duke Energy Indiana | 31.6 | % |  | 36.6 | % |  | 35.2 | % |  | 37.2 | %

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of the reconciliation using percentage or dollar amounts of the reported amount of income tax expense attributable to continuing operations for the year to the amount of income tax expense that would result from applying domestic federal statutory tax rates to pretax income from continuing operations. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 740 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 12 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6907707&loc=d3e32687-109319 + Details
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