Percent of proceeds from accounts receivable securitization received as cash.

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Percent of proceeds from accounts receivable securitization received as subordinated note.

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Power Purchase Participation Rate

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Minimum equity Balance required by Cinergy Receivables

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The amount of financial or other support the reporting entity has provided (explicitly or implicitly) to the Variable Interest Entity (VIE) that it was not previously contractually required to provide or that the reporting entity intends to provide, including, for example, situations in which the reporting entity assisted the VIE in obtaining another type of support.

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-Section 50
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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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Percentage of the Variable Interest Entity's (VIE) voting interest owned by (or beneficial interest in) the reporting entity (directly or indirectly).

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Variable Interest Entities (Narrative) (Details) - USD ($)		6 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2018	Jun. 30, 2020	Dec. 31, 2019
FES
Variable Interest Entities [Line Items]
Power participation ratio	4.85%
VIE primary beneficiary
Variable Interest Entities [Line Items]
Variable interest entity, financial or other support, amount		$ 0	$ 0
VIE primary beneficiary \| CRC
Variable Interest Entities [Line Items]
Percent of proceeds received as cash		75.00%
Percent of proceeds received as subordinated note		25.00%
Minimum equity balance required by Cinergy Receivables		$ 3,000,000
VIE not primary beneficiary \| OVEC
Variable Interest Entities [Line Items]
Variable interest entity ownership interest		9.00%