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Leases (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2022
Leases [Abstract] |
Schedule of Lease Assets and Liabilities - Lessee [Table Text Block] | The following table summarizes the amounts recognized on the Consolidated Balance Sheets related to lease asset and liability balances as of the periods indicated (in millions):
|  | Consolidated Balance Sheet Classification |  | December 31, 2022 |  |  | December 31, 2021
Assets |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Right-of-use assets — finance leases |  | Electric generation, distribution assets and other |  | $ | 160 |  |  |  | $ | 125 |
Right-of-use assets — operating leases |  | Other noncurrent assets |  | 356 |  |  |  | 278 |
Total right-of-use assets |  |  |  | $ | 516 |  |  |  | $ | 403 |
Liabilities |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Finance lease liabilities (current) |  | Non-recourse debt (current liabilities) |  | $ | 6 |  |  |  | $ | 6 |
Finance lease liabilities (noncurrent) |  | Non-recourse debt (noncurrent liabilities) |  | 169 |  |  |  | 128 |
Total finance lease liabilities |  |  |  | 175 |  |  |  | 134 |
Operating lease liabilities (current) |  | Accrued and other liabilities |  | 26 |  |  |  | 20 |
Operating lease liabilities (noncurrent) |  | Other noncurrent liabilities |  | 374 |  |  |  | 294 |
Total operating lease liabilities |  |  |  | 400 |  |  |  | 314 |
Total lease liabilities |  |  |  | $ | 575 |  |  |  | $ | 448 |
Weighted-Average Lease Term and Discount Rate [Table Text Block] | The following table summarizes supplemental balance sheet information related to leases as of the periods indicated:
Lease Term and Discount Rate | December 31, 2022 |  | December 31, 2021
Weighted-average remaining lease term — finance leases | 33 years |  | 32 years
Weighted-average remaining lease term — operating leases | 25 years |  | 23 years
Weighted-average discount rate — finance leases | 4.59 | % |  | 4.65 | %
Weighted-average discount rate — operating leases | 6.22 | % |  | 6.70 | %
Lease, Cost [Table Text Block] | The following table summarizes the components of lease expense recognized in Cost of Sales on the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the periods indicated (in millions):
| Twelve Months Ended December 31, |  |
Components of Lease Cost | 2022 |  | 2021 |  |
Operating lease cost | $ | 46 |  |  | $ | 36 |  |  |
Finance lease cost: |  |  |  |  |
Amortization of right-of-use assets | 8 |  |  | 4 |  |  |
Interest on lease liabilities | 8 |  |  | 4 |  |  |
Short-term lease costs | 28 |  |  | 21 |  |  |
Variable lease cost | 1 |  |  | 1 |  |  |
Total lease cost | $ | 91 |  |  | $ | 66 |  |  |
Lessee, Operating Lease, Liability, Maturity [Table Text Block] | The following table shows the future lease payments under operating and finance leases for continuing operations together with the present value of the net lease payments as of December 31, 2022 for 2023 through 2027 and thereafter (in millions):
| Maturity of Lease Liabilities
| Finance Leases |  | Operating Leases
2023 | $ | 10 |  |  | $ | 36 |
2024 | 9 |  |  | 35 |
2025 | 9 |  |  | 33 |
2026 | 9 |  |  | 32 |
2027 | 9 |  |  | 30 |
Thereafter | 310 |  |  | 650 |
Total | 356 |  |  | 816 |
Less: Imputed interest | (181) |  |  | (416) |
Present value of lease payments | $ | 175 |  |  | $ | 400 |
Operating Lease, Lease Income | The following table presents lease revenue from operating leases in which the Company is the lessor, recognized in Revenue on the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the periods indicated (in millions):
|  |  | Twelve Months Ended December 31,
Lease Income |  |  |  |  | 2022 |  | 2021
Total lease revenue |  |  |  |  | $ | 527 |  |  | $ | 595 |
Less: Variable lease revenue |  |  |  |  | (49) |  |  | (75) |
Total non-variable lease revenue |  |  |  |  | $ | 478 |  |  | $ | 520 |
Sales-type Lease, Lease Income [Table Text Block] | The following table shows the future lease receipts as of December 31, 2022 for 2023 through 2027 and thereafter (in millions):
| Future Cash Receipts for
| Sales-Type Leases |  | Operating Leases
2023 | $ | 25 |  |  | $ | 387 |
2024 | 25 |  |  | 387 |
2025 | 25 |  |  | 388 |
2026 | 25 |  |  | 279 |
2027 | 25 |  |  | 203 |
Thereafter | 367 |  |  | 545 |
Total | 492 |  |  | $ | 2,189 |
Less: Imputed interest | (264) |  |  |
Present value of total lease receipts | $ | 228 |  |  |
Property, Plant, and Equipment, Lessor Asset under Operating Lease | The following table presents the underlying gross assets and accumulated depreciation of operating leases included in Property, Plant and Equipment on the Consolidated Balance Sheets as of the periods indicated (in millions):
Lease Assets |  | December 31, 2022 |  | December 31, 2021
Gross assets |  | $ | 1,319 |  |  | $ | 2,423 |
Accumulated depreciation |  | (139) |  |  | (765) |
Net assets |  | $ | 1,180 |  |  | $ | 1,658 |

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