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Income Taxes (Schedule Of Effective Tax Rates) (Detail)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
Mar. 31, 2014
Effective tax rate 40.50%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateContinuingOperations 40.20%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateContinuingOperations
Power [Member]    
Effective tax rate 41.10%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateContinuingOperations
/ dei_LegalEntityAxis
= pseg_PowerMember
40.40%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateContinuingOperations
/ dei_LegalEntityAxis
= pseg_PowerMember
PSE And G [Member]    
Effective tax rate 39.40%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateContinuingOperations
/ dei_LegalEntityAxis
= pseg_PseAndGMember
40.10%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateContinuingOperations
/ dei_LegalEntityAxis
= pseg_PseAndGMember