Cleco Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Parenthetical) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Dec. 31, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Statement of Cash Flows [Abstract]
Cash and cash equivalents	$ 122,576	$ 54,541
Current restricted cash and cash equivalents	15,818	23,549
Non-current restricted cash and cash equivalents	113,573	109,415
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash equivalents in assets held for sale	$ 4,100	$ 4,067

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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