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Business Combination, Consideration, Cash Per Common Share

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Business Combination, Consideration, Stock Per Common Share

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Merger consideration share-based compensation awards

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Ownership Percentage of Acquirer Upon Completion of Merger

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Ownership Percentage of Minority Investor Upon Completion of Merger

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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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This element represents acquisition-related costs incurred to effect a business combination which costs have been expensed during the period. Such costs include finder's fees; advisory, legal, accounting, valuation, and other professional or consulting fees; general administrative costs, including the costs of maintaining an internal acquisitions department; and may include costs of registering and issuing debt and equity securities.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 805
-SubTopic 10
-Section 25
-Paragraph 23
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=73531572&loc=d3e1043-128460

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THE MERGER (Details) - USD ($)			3 Months Ended
THE MERGER (Details) - USD ($)	Oct. 14, 2016	Apr. 20, 2016	Mar. 31, 2017	Mar. 31, 2016
Certain Internal Labor and Associated Costs
The Merger
Merger related expenses			$ 1,000,000	$ 3,000,000
External Legal, Advisory and Financial Services Fees
The Merger
Merger related expenses				$ 10,000,000
GIC Private Limited
The Merger
Ownership percentage of minority investor upon completion of merger		19.90%
Business acquisition, cash consideration		$ 1,228,000,000
ITC Holdings
The Merger
Cash per common share	$ 22.57
Fortis stock per common share	$ 0.7520
Ownership percentage of Fortis after close of merger	27.00%
Merger consideration share-based compensation awards	$ 45.72