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Regulatory Assets and Liabilities (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2015
Regulatory Assets and Liabilities Disclosure [Abstract] |
Regulatory Assets Included on the Consolidated Balance Sheets | SCE's regulatory assets included on the consolidated balance sheets are:
| December 31,
(in millions) | 2015 |  | 2014
Current: |  |  |
Regulatory balancing accounts | $ | 382 |  |  | $ | 1,088 |
Energy derivatives | 159 |  |  | 159 |
Other | 19 |  |  | 7 |
Total current | 560 |  |  | 1,254 |
Long-term: |  |  |
Deferred income taxes, net | 3,757 |  |  | 3,405 |
Pensions and other postretirement benefits | 849 |  |  | 1,218 |
Energy derivatives | 1,027 |  |  | 850 |
Unamortized investments, net | 182 |  |  | 255 |
San Onofre | 1,043 |  |  | 1,288 |
Unamortized loss on reacquired debt | 201 |  |  | 201 |
Regulatory balancing accounts | 36 |  |  | 44 |
Environmental remediation | 129 |  |  | 107 |
Other | 288 |  |  | 244 |
Total long-term | 7,512 |  |  | 7,612 |
Total regulatory assets | $ | 8,072 |  |  | $ | 8,866 |
Regulatory Liabilities Included on the Consolidated Balance Sheets | SCE's regulatory liabilities included on the consolidated balance sheets are:
| December 31,
(in millions) | 2015 |  | 2014
Current: |  |  |
Regulatory balancing accounts | $ | 1,106 |  |  | $ | 380 |
Other | 22 |  |  | 21 |
Total current | 1,128 |  |  | 401 |
Long-term: |  |  |
Costs of removal | 2,781 |  |  | 2,826 |
Recoveries in excess of ARO liabilities 1 | 1,502 |  |  | 1,956 |
Regulatory balancing accounts | 1,314 |  |  | 1,083 |
Other | 79 |  |  | 24 |
Total long-term | 5,676 |  |  | 5,889 |
Total regulatory liabilities | $ | 6,804 |  |  | $ | 6,290 |
1 | Represents the cumulative differences between ARO expenses and amounts collected in rates primarily for the decommissioning of the SCE's nuclear generation facilities. Decommissioning costs recovered through rates are primarily placed in nuclear decommissioning trusts. This regulatory liability also represents the deferral of realized and unrealized gains and losses on the nuclear decommissioning trust investments (see Note 9).
Schedule of Regulatory Balancing Accounts | The following table summarizes the significant components of regulatory balancing accounts included in the above tables of regulatory assets and liabilities:
| December 31,
(in millions) | 2015 |  | 2014
Asset (liability) |  |  |
Energy resource recovery account | $ | (439 | ) |  | $ | 1,028 |
New system generation balancing account | (171 | ) |  | 35 |
Public purpose programs and energy efficiency programs | (683 | ) |  | (874 | )
Base rate recovery balancing account | (319 | ) |  | (5 | )
Tax accounting memorandum account and pole loading | (248 | ) |  | — |
Greenhouse gas auction revenue | (75 | ) |  | (182 | )
FERC balancing accounts | 74 |  |  | (32 | )
Generator settlements | (4 | ) |  | (197 | )
Other | (137 | ) |  | (104 | )
Liability | $ | (2,002 | ) |  | $ | (331 | )

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