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Income Taxes (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2011
Income Taxes [Abstract] |
Income tax expense table |
|  | Three Months Ended September 30, |  |  | Nine Months Ended September 30, |
|  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |  |  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |
Income tax expense (benefit) |  | $ | 20 |  |  | $ | 21 |  |  | $ | (45 | )(1) |  | $ | 38 | (2)
Imputed tax rate |  |  | 10 | % |  |  | 10 | % |  |  | 20 | % |  |  | 61 | %
Intraperiod tax allocation expense (benefit) |  | $ | 36 |  |  | $ | 44 |  |  | $ | 20 |  |  | $ | 27 |
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(1) | Includes a tax benefit of approximately $76 million related to the consolidation of the CCFC and Calpine groups for federal income tax reporting purposes for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 (as described below).
(2) | Includes approximately $13 million in intraperiod tax expense related to a prior period with an offsetting benefit in OCI.
Schedule of income tax expense benefit intraperiod tax allocation [Table Text Block] |
|  | Nine Months Ended September 30, |
|  | Included in continuing operations |  |  | Included in discontinued operations |  |  | Included in OCI |
|  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |  |  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |  |  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |
Intraperiod tax allocations expense (benefit) |  | $ | 20 |  |  | $ | 27 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 6 |  |  | $ | (18 | ) |  | $ | 5 |
Schedule of income tax expense benefit intraperiod tax allocation [Table Text Block] | Intraperiod Tax Allocation — In accordance with U.S. GAAP, intraperiod tax allocation provisions require allocation of a tax expense (benefit) to continuing operations due to current OCI gains (losses) and income from discontinued operations with a partial offsetting amount recognized in OCI and discontinued operations. The following table details the effects of our intraperiod tax allocations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010 (in millions).
|  | Three Months Ended September 30, |
|  | Included in continuing operations |  |  | Included in discontinued operations |  |  | Included in OCI |
|  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |  |  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |  |  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |
Intraperiod tax allocation expense (benefit) |  | $ | 36 |  |  | $ | 44 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | (2 | ) |  | $ | (34 | ) |  | $ | (4 | )

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