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Short-Term Debt and Credit Facilities (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2014
Short-term Debt [Abstract] |
Schedule of Line of Credit Facilities [Table Text Block] | The following table provides information regarding the Company's revolving credit agreements and available cash at December 31, 2014.
| Aggregate | Amount | Weighted-Average |  |
Entity | Commitment | Outstanding (A) | Interest Rate | Maturity
| (In millions) |  |  |  |
OGE Energy (B) | $ | 750.0 |  | $ | 98.0 |  | 0.41 | % | (D) | December 13, 2018 | (E)
OG&E (C) | 400.0 |  | 2.0 |  | 0.95 | % | (D) | December 13, 2018 | (E)
Total | $ | 1,150.0 |  | $ | 100.0 |  | 0.42 | % |  |  |
(A) | Includes direct borrowings under the revolving credit agreements, commercial paper borrowings and letters of credit at December 31, 2014.
(B) | This bank facility is available to back up OGE Energy's commercial paper borrowings and to provide revolving credit borrowings. This bank facility can also be used as a letter of credit facility.
(C) | This bank facility is available to back up OG&E's commercial paper borrowings and to provide revolving credit borrowings. This bank facility can also be used as a letter of credit facility.
(D) | Represents the weighted-average interest rate for the outstanding borrowings under the revolving credit agreements, commercial paper borrowings and letters of credit.
(E) | In December 2011, the Company and OG&E entered into unsecured five-year revolving credit agreement s to total in the aggregate $1,150.0 million ($750.0 million for the Company and $400.0 million for OG&E). Each of the credit facilit ies contained an option, which could be exercised up to two times, to extend the term for an additional year. In the third quarter of 2013, the Company and OG&E utilized one of these one-year extensions, and received consent from all of the lenders, to extend the maturity of their credit agreement s from December 13, 2016 to December 13, 2017. In the second quarter of 2014, the Company and OG&E utilized their second extension to extend the maturity of their respective credit facility from December 13, 2017 to December 13, 2018. As of December 31, 2014, commitments of a single existing lender with respect to approximately $16.3 million and $8.7 million of the Company's and OG&E's credit facilities, respectively, however, were not extended and, unless the non-extending lender is replaced in accordance with the terms of the credit facility, such commitments will expire December 13, 2017.

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