Risk Management and Fair Values (Schedules Of Valuation Techniques) (Details) - Gas Hedge Contracts [Member]	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2021
Entergy Louisiana [Member]
Maximum Length of Time Hedged in Cash Flow Hedge	2 years 6 months
Entergy Mississippi [Member]
Maximum Length of Time Hedged in Cash Flow Hedge	6 months
Entergy New Orleans [Member]
Maximum Length of Time Hedged in Cash Flow Hedge	6 months

Maximum length of time over which the entity is hedging its exposure to the variability in future cash flows for forecasted transactions, excluding those forecasted transactions related to the payment of variable interest on existing financial instruments, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 815
-SubTopic 30
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (d)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=121549185&loc=d3e80748-113994

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