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Acquisitions (Details) $ in Millions				1 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
Acquisitions (Details) $ in Millions	Feb. 11, 2020 USD ($)	Jul. 16, 2019 USD ($) mi	Jan. 01, 2019 USD ($) county customer mi MW	Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($) customer mi MW	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($)
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Goodwill				$ 891	$ 891	$ 4,204
Gulf Power [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Cash consideration			$ 4,440
Debt assumed			1,300
Assets assumed			5,200
Property, plant, and equipment			4,000
Regulatory assets			494
Assumed liabilities			3,400
Regulatory liabilities			635
Deferred income taxes			$ 562
Goodwill						2,700
Trans Bay Cable, LLC [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Cash consideration		$ 670
Debt assumed		422
Assets assumed		703
Assumed liabilities		$ 643
Goodwill						610
Goodwill, expected tax deductible amount						$ 572
Florida City Gas [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Cash consideration					$ 530
Stanton Energy Center [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Membership interests acquired				65.00%	65.00%
Natural Gas Generation Facilities [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Cash consideration					$ 200
Santee Cooper [Member] \| Subsequent Event [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Cash consideration	$ 8,500
Payments to Acquire Businesses, Refunds, Gross	$ 941
Gulf Power [Member] \| Gulf Power [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Number of customers served \| customer			470,000
Number of counties In which entity operates \| county			8
Length of power lines (mi) \| mi			9,500
Natural Gas And Or Oil Electric Generating Facility Capacity \| MW			2,300
NextEra Energy Capital Holdings, Inc. (Consolidated) [Member] \| Loans Payable [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Proceeds from Short-term Debt				$ 4,500
Trans Bay Cable, LLC [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Length of power lines (mi) \| mi		53
Florida City Gas [Member] \| Florida City Gas [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Number of customers served \| customer					110,000
Length Of Natural Gas Pipeline \| mi					3,700
Oleader Power Project [Member] \| Oleader Power Project [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Membership interests acquired				100.00%	100.00%
Natural-Gas Fired, Simple-Cycle Combustion Turbine Electric Generation Facility \| MW					791
Entity That Owns Stanton Energy Center Unit A [Member] \| Stanton Energy Center [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Membership interests acquired				100.00%	100.00%
Stanton Energy Center [Member] \| Stanton Energy Center [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Combined-cycle Electric Generation Facility \| MW					660