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Comprehensive Income (Loss) (Tables)

9 Months Ended

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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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.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Topic 220

-SubTopic 10

-Publisher FASB

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-Article

-Subparagraph

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

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-Section 45

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920043&loc=d3e526-108580

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