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ACQUISTION AND DIVESTITURE ACTIVITY (Details) (USD $)
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Dec. 31, 2013
Dec. 31, 2012
Business Acquisition [Line Items]      
Acquired percentage interest in joint venture     100.00%us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionPercentageOfVotingInterestsAcquired
Business acquisition, Cash paid, net of cash acquired $ 121,000,000sre_BusinessAcquisitionCashPaidNetOfCashAcquired    
Liabilities assumed 0us-gaap_LiabilitiesAssumed1 2,000,000us-gaap_LiabilitiesAssumed1 10,000,000us-gaap_LiabilitiesAssumed1
Purchase of noncontrolling interests (74,000,000)us-gaap_PaymentsToAcquireAdditionalInterestInSubsidiaries 0us-gaap_PaymentsToAcquireAdditionalInterestInSubsidiaries (7,000,000)us-gaap_PaymentsToAcquireAdditionalInterestInSubsidiaries
Gain on sale of power plant   74,000,000us-gaap_GainLossOnSaleOfPropertyPlantEquipment  
Goodwill     10,000,000sre_Goodwillduration
Property, plant and equipment     17,000,000sre_Propertyplantandequipmentduration
Cameron LNG [Member]      
Gas Volumes Capacity [Line Items]      
LNG Vaporization Capability 1.5sre_Lngvaporizationcapability
/ sre_GasVolumesCapacityAxis
= sre_CameronLngMember
   
LNG Nameplate Capacity 13.5sre_Lngnameplatecapacity
/ sre_GasVolumesCapacityAxis
= sre_CameronLngMember
   
LNG Expected Export Capacity 12sre_Lngexpectedexportcapacity
/ sre_GasVolumesCapacityAxis
= sre_CameronLngMember
   
LNG Expected Export Capacity Per Day 1.7sre_Lngexpectedexportcapacityperday
/ sre_GasVolumesCapacityAxis
= sre_CameronLngMember
   
Willmut Gas [Member]      
Business Acquisition [Line Items]      
Liabilities assumed     $ 10,000,000us-gaap_LiabilitiesAssumed1
/ us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionAxis
= sre_WillmutGasMember