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Reflects the dollar exposure of credit risk to the top ten energy trading counterparties.

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Reflects the amount of loss due to credit risk with energy trading partners after considering netting arrangements and collateral.

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Reflects the number of top ten energy trading counterparties, which the company has credit risk exposure, that have an investment grade credit rating.

No definition available.

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Reflects the percentage exposure of credit risk to the top ten energy trading counterparties.

No definition available.

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The energy trading counterparties in top ten that have an investment grade credit rating, reflected as a percentage of the top ten's credit risk exposure.

No definition available.

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Fair value portion of debt instrument payable, including, but not limited to, notes payable and loans payable.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 825
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 10
-Subparagraph (a)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=49121117&loc=d3e13433-108611

Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 825
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 12
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=49121117&loc=d3e13476-108611

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

No definition available.