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Other Non-Operating Expense (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2013
Other Income and Expenses [Abstract] |
Schedule of Other Nonoperating Expense By Component |
|  | Years Ended December 31,
|  | 2013 |  | 2012 |  | 2011
|  | (in millions)
Elsta |  | $ | 129 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |
China generation and wind |  | — |  |  | 32 |  |  | 79 |
InnoVent |  | — |  |  | 17 |  |  | — |
Other |  | — |  |  | 1 |  |  | 3 |
Total other non-operating expense |  | $ | 129 |  |  | $ | 50 |  |  | $ | 82 |

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