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Comprehensive Income (Loss) (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2011
Comprehensive Income Note [Abstract] |
OCI table |
|  | Three Months Ended September 30, |  |  | Nine Months Ended September 30, |
|  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |  |  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |
Net income (loss) |  | $ | 190 |  |  | $ | 217 |  |  | $ | (176 | ) |  | $ | 55 |
Other comprehensive income (loss): |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Gain (loss) on cash flow hedges before reclassification adjustment for cash flow hedges realized in net income (loss) |  |  | (74 | ) |  |  | 65 |  |  |  | (60 | ) |  |  | 95 |
Reclassification adjustment for cash flow hedges realized in net income (loss) |  |  | (20 | ) |  |  | (12 | ) |  |  | 24 |  |  |  | 10 |
Foreign currency translation loss |  |  | (4 | ) |  |  | — |  |  |  | (4 | ) |  |  | — |
Income tax (expense) benefit |  |  | 34 |  |  |  | 4 |  |  |  | 18 |  |  |  | (5 | )
Comprehensive income (loss) |  |  | 126 |  |  |  | 274 |  |  |  | (198 | ) |  |  | 155 |
Add: Comprehensive income attributable to the noncontrolling interest |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | (1 | ) |  |  | — |
Comprehensive income (loss) attributable to Calpine |  | $ | 126 |  |  | $ | 274 |  |  | $ | (199 | ) |  | $ | 155 |

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- 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. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Publisher FASB -Number -Article -Subparagraph -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Paragraph 1 -Section 45 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920043&loc=d3e526-108580 + Details
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