GECC Financing Receivables and Allowance for Losses (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions		3 Months Ended	6 Months Ended
		Jun. 30, 2015	Jun. 30, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014	Jun. 30, 2014	Dec. 31, 2013
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Financing receivables, net		$ 70,827	$ 70,827	$ 110,255
Assets	[1]	610,926	610,926	648,162
GECC [Member]
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Financing receivables, net of deferred income		84,476	84,476	126,561
Allowance for losses		(3,393)	(3,393)	(4,104)	$ (4,165)	$ (4,025)
Financing receivables, net		81,083	81,083	122,457
Assets		463,320	463,320	502,570
Financing receivable held for sale		0	28,170
GECC [Member] | Assets held for sale [Member]
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Financing receivable held for sale		0	5,508
GECC [Member] | Loans receivable [Member]
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Financing receivables, net of deferred income		79,169	79,169	120,007
GECC [Member] | Investment in financing leases
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Financing receivables, net of deferred income		$ 5,307	$ 5,307	$ 6,554

[1] (a) Our consolidated assets at June 30, 2015 included total assets of $ 46,748 million of certain variable interest entities (VIEs) that can only be used to settle the liabilities of those VIEs. These assets included current receivables and net financing receivables of $28,245 million and investment securities of $ 3,186 million within continuing operations and assets of discontinued operations of $ 14,078 million. Our consolidated liabilities at June 30, 2015 included liabilities of cer tain VIEs for which the VIE creditors do not have recourse to GE. These liabilities included non-recourse borrowings of consolidated securitization entities (CSEs) of $ 16,991 million within continuing operations and non-recourse borrowings of CSEs within discontinued operations of $ 9,168 million. See Note 16 .