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Short-term Debt and Other Financing Agreements Short-term Debt and Other Financing Agreements (Details) (USD $)
In Millions, unless otherwise specified
Dec. 31, 2014
Dec. 31, 2013
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]    
Line of Credit Facility, Maximum Borrowing Capacity $ 1,200us-gaap_LineOfCreditFacilityMaximumBorrowingCapacity $ 1,200us-gaap_LineOfCreditFacilityMaximumBorrowingCapacity
Short-term debt (20)us-gaap_ShortTermBorrowings 0us-gaap_ShortTermBorrowings
Line of Credit Facility, Amounts Supported (398)pcorp_LineOfCreditFacilityAmountsSupported (321)pcorp_LineOfCreditFacilityAmountsSupported
Line of Credit Facility, Remaining Borrowing Capacity 782us-gaap_LineOfCreditFacilityRemainingBorrowingCapacity 879us-gaap_LineOfCreditFacilityRemainingBorrowingCapacity
Line of Credit [Member]    
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]    
Debt to capitalization ratio 0.65pcorp_DebtToCapitalizationRatio
/ us-gaap_CreditFacilityAxis
= us-gaap_LineOfCreditMember
 
Commercial Paper [Member]    
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]    
Debt, Weighted Average Interest Rate 0.43%us-gaap_DebtWeightedAverageInterestRate
/ us-gaap_CreditFacilityAxis
= us-gaap_CommercialPaperMember
 
Letter of Credit [Member]    
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]    
Line of Credit Facility, Amounts Supported (270)pcorp_LineOfCreditFacilityAmountsSupported
/ us-gaap_CreditFacilityAxis
= us-gaap_LetterOfCreditMember
(270)pcorp_LineOfCreditFacilityAmountsSupported
/ us-gaap_CreditFacilityAxis
= us-gaap_LetterOfCreditMember
Tax exempt bond obligations and commodity contract collateral requirement [Member]    
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]    
Letters of Credit Outstanding, Amount 451us-gaap_LettersOfCreditOutstandingAmount
/ pcorp_ItemsSupportedByLettersOfCreditAxis
= pcorp_TaxExemptBondObligationsAndCommodityContractCollateralRequirementMember
559us-gaap_LettersOfCreditOutstandingAmount
/ pcorp_ItemsSupportedByLettersOfCreditAxis
= pcorp_TaxExemptBondObligationsAndCommodityContractCollateralRequirementMember
Certain transactions required by third parties [Member]    
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]    
Letters of Credit Outstanding, Amount 16us-gaap_LettersOfCreditOutstandingAmount
/ pcorp_ItemsSupportedByLettersOfCreditAxis
= pcorp_CertainTransactionsRequiredByThirdPartiesMember
 
Unsecured credit facility, $600 million, expiring June 2017 [Member] | Line of Credit [Member]    
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]    
Line of Credit Facility, Maximum Borrowing Capacity 600us-gaap_LineOfCreditFacilityMaximumBorrowingCapacity
/ us-gaap_CreditFacilityAxis
= us-gaap_LineOfCreditMember
/ us-gaap_DebtInstrumentAxis
= pcorp_UnsecuredCreditFacility600MillionExpiringJune2017Member
 
Unsecured credit facility, $600 million, expiring March 2018 [Member] | Line of Credit [Member]    
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]    
Line of Credit Facility, Maximum Borrowing Capacity $ 600us-gaap_LineOfCreditFacilityMaximumBorrowingCapacity
/ us-gaap_CreditFacilityAxis
= us-gaap_LineOfCreditMember
/ us-gaap_DebtInstrumentAxis
= pcorp_UnsecuredCreditFacility600MillionExpiringMarch2018Member