Jointly Owned Electric Facilities - Schedule of Utility Plant in Service for Colstrip And Accumulated Depreciation (Details) - Colstrip Generating Project [Member] - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Dec. 31, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Jointly Owned Utility Plant Interests [Line Items]
Utility plant in service	$ 394,398	$ 390,852
Accumulated depreciation	$ (334,338)	$ (315,223)

The period end amount owned by the reporting utility of a jointly owned utility plant in service.

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-Topic 980
-SubTopic 360
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SAB Topic 10.C)
-Publisher FASB
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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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The period end amount of accumulated depreciation in a jointly owned electricity generation plant.

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