The Company (Details)	Dec. 31, 2017 generationunit customer entity MW
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Line Items]
Number of transmission interconnection facility subsidiaries \| entity	2
Cleco Power [Member]
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Line Items]
Number of generating units owned \| generationunit	9
Nameplate capacity of all generating units (MW) \| MW	3,310
Approximate number of customers served \| customer	290,000
Ownership interest in lignite entity (in hundredths)	50.00%

The approximate number of customers served by Cleco Power, a regulated electric utility company.

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Total nameplate capacity (in megawatts) of all generating units.

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Number of Generation Units Owned

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The number of transmission interconnection facility subsidiaries that are classified as other segments by the Entity.

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The percentage of ownership of common stock or equity participation in the investee accounted for under the equity method of accounting.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 323
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (a)(1)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=66011266&loc=d3e33918-111571

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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.

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