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Comprehensive Income (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

Schedule of Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Table Text Block]

Comprehensive income is as follows (in millions):



	Three Months Ended June 30,				Six Months Ended June 30,
	2011		2010		2011		2010
Net income	$	22	$	24	$	91	$	51
Other comprehensive income - Change in compensation retirement benefits liability and amortization, net of taxes	—		—		—		1
Comprehensive income and Comprehensive income attributable to Portland General Electric Company	$	22	$	24	$	91	$	52

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of components of comprehensive income (loss) including, but not limited to: (a) foreign currency translation adjustments; (b) gains (losses) on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (c) gains (losses) on intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, when the entities to the transaction are consolidated, combined, or accounted for by the equity method in the reporting enterprise's financial statements; (d) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (e) unrealized holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities and that resulting from transfers of debt securities from the held-to-maturity category to the available-for-sale category; (f) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (g) the net gain (loss) and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans.

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