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Comprehensive Income (Loss) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2011
Comprehensive Income Note [Abstract] |
Comprehensive Income (Loss) | 4. Comprehensive Loss Comprehensive loss includes our net loss, unrealized gains and losses from derivative instruments, net of tax that qualify as cash flow hedges, our share of equity method investees‘ OCI and the effects of foreign currency translation adjustments. See Note 7 for further discussion of our accounting for derivative instruments designated as cash flow hedges and the related amounts recorded in OCI. We report AOCI on our Consolidated Condensed Balance Sheets. The table below details the components of our comprehensive loss for the periods indicated (in millions):
|  | Three Months Ended June 30, |  |  | Six Months Ended June 30, |
|  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |  |  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |
Net loss |  | $ | (70 | ) |  | $ | (114 | ) |  | $ | (366 | ) |  | $ | (162 | )
Other comprehensive income (loss): |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Gain (loss) on cash flow hedges before reclassification adjustment for cash flow hedges realized in net loss |  |  | (17 | ) |  |  | (71 | ) |  |  | 14 |  |  |  | 30 |
Reclassification adjustment for cash flow hedges realized in net loss |  |  | (31 | ) |  |  | 8 |  |  |  | 44 |  |  |  | 22 |
Foreign currency translation loss |  |  | (1 | ) |  |  | (2 | ) |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Income tax (expense) benefit |  |  | 18 |  |  |  | (23 | ) |  |  | (16 | ) |  |  | (9 | )
Comprehensive loss |  |  | (101 | ) |  |  | (202 | ) |  |  | (324 | ) |  |  | (119 | )
Add: Comprehensive income attributable to the noncontrolling interest |  |  | — |  |  |  | (1 | ) |  |  | (1 | ) |  |  | — |
Comprehensive loss attributable to Calpine |  | $ | (101 | ) |  | $ | (203 | ) |  | $ | (325 | ) |  | $ | (119 | )

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- Definition The entire disclosure for comprehensive income. Includes, but is not limited to, the following: 1) the amount of income tax expense or benefit allocated to each component of other comprehensive income, including reclassification adjustments, 2) the reclassification adjustments for each classification of other comprehensive income and 3) the ending accumulated balances for each component of comprehensive income. Components of comprehensive income include: (1) foreign currency translation adjustments; (2) gains (losses) on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (3) 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; (4) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (5) 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; (6) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (7) the net gain (loss) and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Section 55 -Paragraph 2 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920433&loc=d3e998-108581 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Section 45 -Paragraph 15 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920043&loc=d3e689-108580 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Section 45 -Paragraph 11 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920043&loc=d3e637-108580 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Section 45 -Paragraph 17 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920043&loc=d3e716-108580 Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Section 45 -Paragraph 14 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920043&loc=d3e681-108580 Reference 6: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Glossary Reclassification Adjustments -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6522872 Reference 7: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS) -Number 130 -Paragraph 14-26 -LegacyDoc This reference is SUPERSEDED by the Accounting Standards Codification effective for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009. This reference is included to help users transition from the previous accounting hierarchy and will be removed from future versions of this taxonomy. Reference 8: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Section 45 -Paragraph 12 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920043&loc=d3e640-108580 Reference 9: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 505 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 1 -Subparagraph (SX 210.3-04) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6959260&loc=d3e187085-122770 Reference 10: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Section 45 -Paragraph 13 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920043&loc=d3e653-108580 Reference 11: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Section 45 -Paragraph 16 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920043&loc=d3e709-108580 + Details
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