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Related Party Transactions Related Party Transactions (Notes)	6 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2019
PacifiCorp [Member]
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Related Party Transactions Disclosure [Text Block]	Related Party Berkshire Hathaway includes BHE and its subsidiaries in its United States federal income tax return. Consistent with established regulatory practice, PacifiCorp's provision for federal and state income tax has been computed on a stand-alone basis, and substantially all of its currently payable or receivable income tax is remitted to or received from BHE. For the six-month periods ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, PacifiCorp made net cash payments for federal and state income tax to BHE totaling $11 million and $32 million, respectively.