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Nature of Business and Basis of Presentation - General (Details) customer in Millions	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023 customer GW
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Generation capacity (in GW) | GW	15
Residential Customers
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Customers | customer	7.5

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Power Generation Capacity, Gigawatts

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Topic 805
-SubTopic 20
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Section 50
-Paragraph 5
-Subparagraph (a)
-Publisher FASB
-URI https://asc.fasb.org//1943274/2147479907/805-20-50-5

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