Cleco Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited) (Parenthetical) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Jun. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Statement of Cash Flows [Abstract]
Cash and cash equivalents	$ 71,857	$ 48,041
Restricted cash and cash equivalents, current	22,671	23,549
Restricted cash and cash equivalents, noncurrent	111,109	109,415
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash equivalents in assets held for sale	$ 4,082	$ 10,567

Amount of cash and cash equivalents, and cash and cash equivalents restricted to withdrawal or usage; attributable to disposal group, including, but not limited to, discontinued operations. Cash includes, but is not limited to, currency on hand, demand deposits with banks or financial institutions, and other accounts with general characteristics of demand deposits. Cash equivalents include, but are not limited to, short-term, highly liquid investments that are both readily convertible to known amounts of cash and so near their maturity that they present insignificant risk of changes in value because of changes in interest rates.

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