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Balance Sheet Components (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2017
Balance Sheet Components [Abstract] |
Schedule of Other Current Assets [Table Text Block] | Other current assets consist of the following (in millions):
| September 30, 2017 |  | December 31, 2016
Prepaid expenses | $ | 27 |  |  | $ | 48 |
Assets from price risk management activities | 4 |  |  | 18 |
Margin deposits | 4 |  |  | 8 |
Other | 8 |  |  | 3 |
Other current assets | $ | 43 |  |  | $ | 77 |
Schedule of Public Utility Property, Plant, and Equipment [Table Text Block] | Electric utility plant, net consists of the following (in millions):
| September 30, 2017 |  | December 31, 2016
Electric utility plant | $ | 9,766 |  |  | $ | 9,534 |
Construction work-in-progress | 386 |  |  | 213 |
Total cost | 10,152 |  |  | 9,747 |
Less: accumulated depreciation and amortization | (3,514 | ) |  | (3,313 | )
Electric utility plant, net | $ | 6,638 |  |  | $ | 6,434 |
Schedule of Regulatory Assets and Liabilities [Text Block] | Regulatory assets and liabilities consist of the following (in millions):
| September 30, 2017 |  | December 31, 2016
| Current |  | Noncurrent |  | Current |  | Noncurrent
Regulatory assets: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Price risk management | $ | 39 |  |  | $ | 150 |  |  | $ | 26 |  |  | $ | 120 |
Pension and other postretirement plans | — |  |  | 225 |  |  | — |  |  | 235 |
Deferred income taxes | — |  |  | 83 |  |  | — |  |  | 86 |
Debt issuance costs | — |  |  | 20 |  |  | — |  |  | 22 |
Other | 3 |  |  | 48 |  |  | 10 |  |  | 35 |
Total regulatory assets | $ | 42 |  |  | $ | 526 |  |  | $ | 36 |  |  | $ | 498 |
Regulatory liabilities: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Asset retirement removal costs | $ | — |  |  | $ | 921 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 887 |
Trojan decommissioning activities | 4 |  |  | — |  |  | 18 |  |  | — |
Asset retirement obligations | — |  |  | 52 |  |  | — |  |  | 49 |
Other | 16 |  |  | 29 |  |  | 33 |  |  | 22 |
Total regulatory liabilities | $ | 20 |  | * | $ | 1,002 |  |  | $ | 51 |  | * | $ | 958 |
* Included in Accrued expenses and other current liabilities in the condensed consolidated balance sheets.
Other Liabilities Disclosure [Text Block] | Accrued expenses and other current liabilities consist of the following (in millions):
| September 30, 2017 |  | December 31, 2016
Accrued employee compensation and benefits | $ | 51 |  |  | $ | 52 |
Accrued taxes payable | 46 |  |  | 25 |
Accrued interest payable | 40 |  |  | 25 |
Accrued dividends payable | 31 |  |  | 30 |
Regulatory liabilities—current | 20 |  |  | 51 |
Other | 60 |  |  | 71 |
Total accrued expenses and other current liabilities | $ | 248 |  |  | $ | 254 |
Pension and Other Postretirement Benefits Disclosure [Text Block] | Components of net periodic benefit cost under the defined benefit pension plan are as follows (in millions):
| Three Months Ended September 30, |  | Nine Months Ended September 30,
| 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2017 |  | 2016
Service cost | $ | 4 |  |  | $ | 4 |  |  | $ | 12 |  |  | $ | 12 |
Interest cost | 8 |  |  | 9 |  |  | 25 |  |  | 25 |
Expected return on plan assets | (10 | ) |  | (10 | ) |  | (30 | ) |  | (30 | )
Amortization of net actuarial loss | 3 |  |  | 3 |  |  | 9 |  |  | 11 |
Net periodic benefit cost | $ | 5 |  |  | $ | 6 |  |  | $ | 16 |  |  | $ | 18 |

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