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Schedule of details of provisions for legal claims and contingent liabilities (Details) - BRL (R$)
R$ in Thousands
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
Dec. 31, 2020
IfrsStatementLineItems [Line Items]    
Provisions R$ 1,597,365 R$ 1,555,704
Contingent liabilities 5,505,128 5,210,166
Tax [Member]    
IfrsStatementLineItems [Line Items]    
Provisions 181,115 173,873
Contingent liabilities R$ 560,989 576,623
Tax [Member] | Cofins [Member]    
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Description Requirement of the Federal Revenue Service for the period from August 1995 to December 1996, due to the termination of a judicial decision that has recognized the Company’s exemption from Cofins.  
Provisions R$ 110,059 107,148
Contingent liabilities R$ 7,914 6,554
Tax [Member] | I N S S [Member]    
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Description Tax requirements related to the social security contribution.  
Provisions R$ 29,813 29,405
Contingent liabilities R$ 107,840 100,165
Tax [Member] | Federal Taxes [Member]    
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Description Administrative requirements and questions from Receita Federal do Brasil (Federal Revenue Service).  
Provisions R$ 1,721  
Contingent liabilities R$ 77,058 84,027
Tax [Member] | I C M S [Member]    
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Description Administrative requirements and questions from the State regarding the payment of ICMS (VAT) on the Company’s invoices.  
Provisions  
Contingent liabilities R$ 43,346 97,404
Tax [Member] | I P T U [Member]    
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Description Tax Requirement on Urban Territorial Property (IPTU) on properties affected by the public electricity service.  
Provisions  
Contingent liabilities R$ 118,981 98,459
Tax [Member] | I S S [Member]    
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Description City halls tax requirement as ISS on construction services provided by third parties.  
Provisions R$ 170 3
Contingent liabilities R$ 83,536 73,094
Tax [Member] | Others [Member]    
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Description Taxes, fees and other federal, state and municipal taxes in which the Company discusses the levy or not, as well as its bases and amounts for payment  
Provisions R$ 39,352 37,317
Contingent liabilities R$ 122,314 116,920
Labor [Member]    
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Description Charging of overtime, hazardous work, transfer surcharge, equalization / salary adjustment, among others, by employees and former employees of Copel; collection of indemnity installments and others, by ex-employees of contractors and outsourced companies (subsidiary responsibility).  
Provisions R$ 569,756 596,248
Contingent liabilities R$ 291,633 348,463
Employee Benefits [Member]    
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Description Labor claims filed by former retired employees against Fundação Copel, which will consequently cause repercussions for the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, to the extent that additional contributions are required.  
Provisions R$ 37,148 52,401
Contingent liabilities 3,524 9,210
Regulatory [Member]    
IfrsStatementLineItems [Line Items]    
Provisions 103,155 88,699
Contingent liabilities R$ 1,400,516 1,158,993
Regulatory [Member] | Others [Member]    
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Description Aneel’s notifications about possible breaches of regulatory standards  
Provisions R$ 20,485 18,511
Contingent liabilities R$ 38,099  
Regulatory [Member] | Dispatch Aneel 2882002 [Member]    
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Description Legal actions against Aneel Dispatch No. 288/2002 involving the companies Companhia Estadual de Energia Elétrica - CEEE and Dona Francisca Energética S.A.  
Provisions R$ 82,670 70,188
Contingent liabilities  
Regulatory [Member] | E S B R [Member]    
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Description ESBR filed Ordinary Lawsuit No. 10426-71.2013.4.01.4100 against ANEEL in the Federal Court of Rondônia, whose ruling: (i) acknowledged the exclusion of liability for the 535-day schedule overrun in the construction of the Jirau Hydropower Station; (ii) declares any obligations, penalties and costs imposed on ESBR as a result of the schedule overrun to be unenforceable, and (iii) annuls ANEEL Resolution 1,732/2013, which had recognized a schedule overrun of only 52 days. An appeal has been brought by ANEEL, pending judgment by the Federal Court of the 1st Region. The practical consequence of the ruling was, at the time it exempted ESBR, to expose the distributors with whom it entered into power trading contracts (CCEARs) to the Short-Term Market and to the high value of the Settlement Price of the Differences (Preço de Liquidação das Diferenças - PLD, in Portuguese) in the period, including Copel DIS. This occurred because the rules for the sale of electricity require that all energy consumed should have a corresponding contractual coverage. If the lawsuits are judged unfavorably against Copel, the amount will be classified as Sectorial Financial Asset to be recovered through tariff rates.  
Provisions  
Contingent liabilities R$ 1,066,486 942,640
Regulatory [Member] | Colider Exclusion Of Liability [Member]    
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Description Discussion on the value of the Tariff for use of the transmission system - TUST and monetary adjustment on energy values ​​referring to the exclusion of liability period. As a result of the court injunction that excluded the delay period for the Colíder HPP from being responsible for the delivery of energy contracted in the Regulated Contracting Environment - ACR, CCEE proceeded to credit, valued to PLD, the energy previously backed to comply with ACR. However, in the event of failure in the lawsuit, the Company must return the amounts credited, updated by the IGPM.  
Provisions  
Contingent liabilities 295,931 216,353
Civil [Member]    
IfrsStatementLineItems [Line Items]    
Provisions 706,191 644,483
Contingent liabilities R$ 3,248,466 3,116,877
Civil [Member] | Tobacco Growers [Member]    
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Description Actions whose main cause is the lack of electricity causing loss of production.  
Provisions R$ 79,092 50,330
Contingent liabilities R$ 68,104 41,258
Civil [Member] | Department Of Roads And Roadworks [Member]    
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Description The Department of Roads and Roadworks (Departamento de Estradas e Rodagens - DER, in Portuguese) - issued a tax assessment notice to Copel Distribuição which, in turn, filed a lawsuit challenging DER’s Charge for Use or Occupancy of Highway Domain Range, since the Company understands that this charge is unconstitutional because it has a confiscatory nature. The Company had a favorable appealable decision.  
Provisions  
Contingent liabilities 95,669
Civil [Member] | Arbitration [Member]    
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Description Discussion by arbitration under secrecy and confidentiality, in the discovery phase, with no decision having been handed down to date.  
Provisions R$ 165,158 125,719
Contingent liabilities R$ 670,704 510,543
Civil [Member] | P I S C O F I N S Credit On I C M S [Member]    
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Description Referring to estimated contingent liability, as per Management’s judgment and the opinion of its legal counsel, regarding the adventitious filing of claims by consumers in connection with the recognized tax credit, as detailed in Note 13.2.1, referring to the period infringing the tax neutrality rule, between the 11th and the 16th years, of a total of 16 years considered in the action. On February 9, 2021, Aneel opened Public Consultation 005/2021 in order to improve the proposal to return these tax credits to consumers. Aneel’s technical areas prepared a technical note to the Public Consultation, delimiting its scope to the economic-financial analysis, but without discussing the legal aspects. Within the scope of that Public Consultation and after receiving the contributions sent by the interested parties, on March 4, 2022, an Opinion was issued by the Federal Prosecutor’s Office with Aneel, which answered questions formulated by the superintendencies of Aneel that evaluate the topic. The regulatory agency has not yet concluded its analysis within the scope of the Public Consultation and, so far, there is no final decision at the administrative level. The Company and its legal advisors evaluated the documents made available in Public Consultation 005/2021 and the Federal Prosecutor’s Opinion, not identifying changes in its previous understanding on the matter, and await analysis by Aneel of their contributions in order to solidify this understanding and protect the Company’s rights.  
Provisions  
Contingent liabilities R$ 1,775,347 1,755,112
Civil [Member] | Civil And Administrative Law [Member]    
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Description Other actions involving billing, supposed irregular procedures, administrative contracts and contractual fines, indemnity for accidents with the electric power network and accident with vehicles.  
Provisions R$ 131,519 133,560
Contingent liabilities R$ 233,925 282,794
Civil [Member] | Indemnification To Third Parties Civil [Member]    
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Description Actions for indemnity for resulting from damages caused during the construction of power plants  
Provisions R$ 57,663 82,146
Contingent liabilities R$ 65,888 38,127
Civil [Member] | Easements [Member]    
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Description Discussion between the amount determined by Copel for payment and the amount claimed by the property owner and/or when when the owner’s documentation supporting title to the property may not be registered (when probate proceedings are still in progress, properties have no registry number with the land registry, etc.), intervention in third-party adverse possession, either as a confronter, or in case of a property where there are areas of easement of passage, in order to preserve the limits and boundaries of expropriated areas.  
Provisions R$ 138,075 110,652
Contingent liabilities R$ 29,100 26,001
Civil [Member] | Expropriation And Property [Member]    
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Description Discussion between the amount assessed by Copel for payment and the amount claimed by the owner, and / or when the owner’s documentation does not present conditions for registration (inventories in progress, properties without registration, among others); actions for repossession of real estate owned by the concessionaire; intervention in the adverse possession of third parties, as a confrontant, in order to preserve the limits and confrontations of the expropriated areas.  
Provisions R$ 93,679 86,207
Contingent liabilities R$ 194,787 138,341
Civil [Member] | Indemnification To Third Parties Expropriations [Member]    
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Description Expropriation lawsuit for construction of electric substation and expropriation of property flooded of power plant.  
Provisions R$ 31,348 44,775
Contingent liabilities 45,196
Civil [Member] | Consumers [Member]    
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Description Lawsuits seeking compensation for damages caused in household appliances, industrial and commercial machines, lawsuits claiming damages for pain and suffering caused by service interruption and lawsuits filed by industrial consumers, challenging the lawfulness of the increase in electricity prices while Plano Cruzado (anti-inflation economic plan) was in effect and claiming reimbursement for the amounts paid by the Company.  
Provisions R$ 3,755 3,920
Contingent liabilities R$ 3,964 3,768
Civil [Member] | Environmental [Member]    
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Description Public civil and class actions whose purpose is to obstruct the progress of environmental licensing for new projects or to recover permanent preservation areas located around the hydroelectric power plant dams unlawfully used by private individuals. If the outcome of the lawsuits is unfavorable to the Company, Management estimates only the cost to prepare new environmental studies and to recover the areas owned by Copel GeT. They also include the Commitment Agreements (Termos de Ajuste de Conduta - TAC, in Portuguese), which refer to the commitments agreed-upon and approved between the Company and the relevant bodies, for noncompliance with any condition provided for by the Installation and Operating Licenses.  
Provisions R$ 5,902 7,174
Contingent liabilities R$ 206,647 R$ 180,068