Comprehensive Income (Loss) (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

Comprehensive Income Note [Abstract]


	Three Months Ended June 30,						Six Months Ended June 30,
	2011			2010			2011			2010
Net loss	$	(70	)	$	(114	)	$	(366	)	$	(162	)
Other comprehensive income (loss):
Gain (loss) on cash flow hedges before reclassification adjustment for cash flow hedges realized in net loss		(17	)		(71	)		14			30
Reclassification adjustment for cash flow hedges realized in net loss		(31	)		8			44			22
Foreign currency translation loss		(1	)		(2	)		—			—
Income tax (expense) benefit		18			(23	)		(16	)		(9	)
Comprehensive loss		(101	)		(202	)		(324	)		(119	)
Add: Comprehensive income attributable to the noncontrolling interest		—			(1	)		(1	)		—
Comprehensive loss attributable to Calpine	$	(101	)	$	(203	)	$	(325	)	$	(119	)

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of components of comprehensive income (loss) including, but not limited to: (a) foreign currency translation adjustments; (b) gains (losses) on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (c) gains (losses) on intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, when the entities to the transaction are consolidated, combined, or accounted for by the equity method in the reporting enterprise's financial statements; (d) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (e) unrealized holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities and that resulting from transfers of debt securities from the held-to-maturity category to the available-for-sale category; (f) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (g) the net gain (loss) and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans.

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