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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Variation in Credit Losses

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Variation in Discount Rates

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Percentage points added to the reference rate to compute the variable rate on the debt instrument.

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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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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 ($)	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2019	Dec. 31, 2020	Dec. 31, 2019	Dec. 31, 2018
Consolidated VIEs
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Financial support		$ 0	$ 0	$ 0
FES
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Power Purchase Participation Rate	4.85%
ACP \| Non-consolidated VIEs
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
VIE Ownership interest		47.00%
CRC
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Variation in credit losses		10.00%
Variation in discount rates		20.00%
CRC \| Consolidated VIEs
Variable Interest Entity [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
CRC \| Duke Energy Ohio \| Non-consolidated VIEs
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate added to LIBOR to compute variable rate		1.00%
OVEC \| Duke Energy Ohio \| Non-consolidated VIEs
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
VIE Ownership interest		9.00%