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Discontinued Operations and Held for sale businesses (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2017
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items] |
Disclosure of Long Lived Assets Held-for-sale [Table Text Block] | The Kazakhstan HPPs are reported in the Eurasia SBU reportable segment. Excluding the impairment charge, pretax income attributable to AES was as follows:
| Three Months Ended September 30, |  | Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in millions) | 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2017 |  | 2016
Kazakhstan Hydroelectric | $ | 12 |  |  | $ | 10 |  |  | $ | 33 |  |  | $ | 28 |
Their combined pretax income (loss) attributable to AES was as follows:
| Three Months Ended September 30, |  | Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in millions) | 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2017 |  | 2016
Zimmer and Miami Fort | $ | 11 |  |  | $ | 1 |  |  | $ | 19 |  |  | $ | (10 | )
Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Table Text Block] | The following table summarizes the major line items constituting the loss from discontinued operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016 (in millions):
| Three Months Ended September 30, 2016 |  | Nine Months Ended September 30, 2016
Loss from discontinued operations, net of tax |  |  |
Revenue — regulated | $ | 213 |  |  | $ | 632 |
Cost of sales | (200 | ) |  | (608 | )
Asset impairment expense | — |  |  | (783 | )
Other income and expense items that are not major, net | (14 | ) |  | (35 | )
Pretax loss from discontinued operations | $ | (1 | ) |  | $ | (794 | )
Income tax benefit | — |  |  | 405 |
Loss from discontinued operations, net of tax | $ | (1 | ) |  | $ | (389 | )
The following table summarizes the operating and investing cash flows from discontinued operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 (in millions):
| Nine Months Ended September 30, 2016
Cash flows provided by operating activities of discontinued operations | $ | 68 |
Cash flows used in investing activities of discontinued operations | (63 | )
Excluding the impairment charge and loss on sale, pretax income (loss) attributable to AES was as follows:
| Three Months Ended September 30, |  | Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in millions) | 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2017 |  | 2016
Kazakhstan CHPs | $ | — |  |  | $ | (2 | ) |  | $ | 13 |  |  | $ | 5 |

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