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Related Party Transactions Related Party Transactions (Notes)
 6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2017
PacifiCorp [Member]  
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]  
Related Party Transactions Disclosure [Text Block]
Berkshire Hathaway includes BHE and its subsidiaries in its United States federal income tax return. Consistent with established regulatory practice, PacifiCorp's provision for income taxes has been computed on a stand-alone basis, and substantially all of its
currently payable or receivable income taxes are remitted to or received from BHE. For the six-month periods ended June 30, 2017 and 2016, PacifiCorp made net cash payments for federal and state income taxes to BHE totaling $3 million and $65 million, respectively.