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Related Party Transactions (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2013
Related Party Transactions [Abstract] |
Schedule of Related Party Transactions | The Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations included the following transactions with related parties for the years indicated:
| Years Ended December 31,
| 2013 |  | 2012 |  | 2011
| (in millions)
Revenue—Non-Regulated | $ | 825 |  |  | $ | 820 |  |  | $ | 657 |
Cost of Sales—Non-Regulated | 161 |  |  | 120 |  |  | 125 |
Interest expense | 5 |  |  | 10 |  |  | 7 |
Schedule of Related Party Receivables Payables | The following table summarizes the balances receivable from and payable to related parties included in the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2013 and 2012:
| 2013 |  | 2012
| (in millions)
Receivables from related parties | $ | 109 |  |  | $ | 146 |
Accounts and notes payable to related parties | 67 |  |  | 195 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of related party transactions. Examples of related party transactions include, but are not limited to, transactions between (a) a parent company and its subsidiary; (b) subsidiaries of a common parent; (c) and entity and its principal owners and (d) affiliates. + References No definition available. + Details
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