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Nature of Business (Details) customer in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2023 customer MW
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Generation capacity (in MW) | MW	13
Home
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Customers served | customer	8

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Number of Customers

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The generation capacity of the entity's power generation facilities as of the balance sheet date, expressed in megawatts.

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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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