Rate and Regulatory Matters (Storm Cost Recovery Filings with Retail Regulators - Narrative) (Details)			1 Months Ended																									3 Months Ended	6 Months Ended	9 Months Ended	12 Months Ended				62 Months Ended
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Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Proceeds from Issuance of Long-Term Debt																															$ 7,898,968,000	$ 4,273,297,000	$ 6,019,835,000
Reduction of income tax expense								$ 129,000,000						$ 283,000,000
Effective Income Tax Rate Reconciliation, at Federal Statutory Income Tax Rate, Percent	21.00%	35.00%																													21.00%	21.00%	21.00%	35.00%
Asset Recovery Damaged Property Costs, Noncurrent				$ 340,460,000		$ 323,206,000																									$ 340,460,000	$ 323,206,000
Receipts from storm reserve escrow accounts																															736,000	98,529,000	$ 1,125,279,000
4.00% Series mortgage bonds due July 2022 [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Debt Instrument, Interest Rate, Stated Percentage														4.00%
Repayments of First Mortgage Bond														$ 650,000,000
Mortgage Bonds Zero Point Six Two Percent Series Due November 2023 [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Debt Instrument, Interest Rate, Stated Percentage														0.62%
Entergy Louisiana [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Proceeds from Issuance of Long-Term Debt																															2,743,965,000	1,410,893,000	2,942,771,000
Amount transfer from restricted escrow account as storm damage reserve																					$ 257,000,000
Total Restoration Costs For Repair and Replacement of Electrical System including carrying costs															$ 2,640,000,000
Aggregate principal amount of system restoration bonds authorization requested																$ 3,186,000,000
Reclassification from utility plant to other regulatory assets																																					$ 1,942,000,000
LCDA issuance of bonds under Act 293 financing														$ 3,194,000,000
Class preferred non voting membership interest units acquired in majority owned subsidiary | shares								14,576,757.48						31,635,718.7221														14,576,757.48
LURC's percentage of annual dividends														1.00%
Entergy Louisiana's percentage of annual dividends														99.00%															99.00%
Preferred Stock, Dividend Rate, Percentage								7.50%						7.00%
Preferred Stock, Liquidation Preference, Value								$ 100						$ 100														$ 100
Proceeds from Contributed Capital														1,000,000,000
Proceeds from capital contribution used to fund Hurricane Ida escrow														1,000,000,000
Funds withdrawn from Hurricane Ida escrow and applied to restoration costs														1,000,000,000
Restricted storm escrow funds														290,000,000
Reduction of income tax expense								$ 133,000,000						290,000,000
Regulatory charge recorded as a result of reduction in income tax expense														224,000,000														103,000,000
Regulatory charge recorded as a result of reduction in income tax expense, net of tax														165,000,000														$ 76,000,000
LURC's beneficial interest in the storm trust, percentage								1.00%																				1.00%	1.00%						1.00%
Reduction to income tax expense - net of provision for uncertain tax positions																												$ 133,000,000
Reduction to income tax expense - net, offset by other tax charges																												129,000,000
Effective Income Tax Rate Reconciliation, at Federal Statutory Income Tax Rate, Percent	21.00%																																	35.00%
Minimum customer benefits																								$ 30,800,000
Annual customer credits																								$ 6,200,000
LCDA issuance of bonds under Louisiana Act 55 financing																							$ 314,850,000
Bond proceeds loaned by LCDA to LURC under Louisiana Act 55 financing																							309,000,000
Amount transfered to restricted escrow account as storm damage reserve																							16,000,000
Bond proceeds transfered to company under Louisiana Act 55 financing																							$ 293,000,000
LURC's beneficial interest in the storm trust														31,600,000														14,600,000
Asset Recovery Damaged Property Costs, Noncurrent				256,718,000		243,819,000																									256,718,000	243,819,000
Receipts from storm reserve escrow accounts																															0	64,036,000	1,000,228,000
Entergy Louisiana [Member] | Mortgage Bonds Zero Point Six Two Percent Series Due November 2023 [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Proceeds from Issuance of Long-Term Debt																					$ 1,100,000,000
Debt Instrument, Interest Rate, Stated Percentage																					0.62%
Entergy Louisiana [Member] | Maximum [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Asset Recovery Damaged Property Costs, Noncurrent																290,000,000				$ 290,000,000
Entergy Louisiana [Member] | Unsecured Term Loan due June 2023 [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Repayments of Unsecured Debt														1,200,000,000
Entergy Louisiana [Member] | Mortgage Bonds Zero Point Six Two Percent Series Due November 2023 [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Repayments of First Mortgage Bond														435,000,000
Entergy Louisiana [Member] | Hurricanes Laura, Delta, Zeta, and Winter Storm Uri [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Total Restoration Costs For Repair and Replacement of Electrical System																				2,060,000,000.00
Deferred Storm and Property Reserve Deficiency, Noncurrent																				1,680,000,000
Non-capital storm costs																				380,000,000
Total Restoration Costs For Repair and Replacement of Electrical System including carrying costs															32,000,000	2,100,000,000				2,110,000,000
Storm carrying costs																51,000,000
Carrying costs associated with storm restoration costs																														$ 3,000,000
Aggregate principal amount of system restoration bond authorization approved								$ 1,491,000,000																				$ 1,491,000,000
Entergy Louisiana [Member] | Hurricanes Laura, Delta, Zeta, and Winter Storm Uri [Member] | Storm Costs [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Regulatory Asset																													$ 180,000,000						$ 180,000,000
Entergy Louisiana [Member] | Hurricane Ida [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Total Restoration Costs For Repair and Replacement of Electrical System										$ 2,640,000,000					2,540,000,000
Deferred Storm and Property Reserve Deficiency, Noncurrent															1,960,000,000	1,000,000,000		$ 1,000,000,000																			1,000,000,000
Non-capital storm costs															586,000,000
Total Restoration Costs For Repair and Replacement of Electrical System including carrying costs															2,600,000,000
Aggregate principal amount of system restoration bonds authorization requested																		1,000,000,000
Carrying costs associated with storm restoration costs										$ 59,100,000					57,000,000
Entergy Louisiana [Member] | Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Minimum amount of benefits committed to pass on to the customers																																											$ 40,000,000
Prospective Annual rate reductions for five years																																											$ 8,000,000
Reduction to Louisiana Act 55 financing savings obligation regulatory liability due to Tax Cuts and Jobs Act	$ 22,300,000
Issuance of bond by government authority																																									$ 278,400,000	$ 687,700,000
Proceed from loan by government authority to corporation																										$ 274,700,000	$ 679,000,000
Amount transfer to restricted escrow account as storm damage reserve by corporation																										87,000,000	152,000,000
Amount Transferred to subsidiary																										187,700,000	527,000,000
Amount used to acquire membership interest units in wholly owned Subsidiary																										$ 189,400,000	$ 545,000,000
Class preferred non voting membership interest units acquired in wholly owned Subsidiary | shares																										1,893,918.39	5,449,861.85
Annual distribution rate																										10.00%	10.00%
Liquidation price per unit | $ / unit																										100
Net worth required under terms of membership interest																										$ 1,000,000,000
Amount withdrawn from restricted escrow account as approved by units of wholly owned subsidiary																										$ 1,700,000	$ 17,800,000
Entergy Louisiana [Member] | Hurricane Gustav And Ike [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Minimum amount of benefits committed to pass on to the customers																																								$ 43,300,000
Prospective Annual rate reductions for five years																																								$ 8,700,000
Reduction to Louisiana Act 55 financing savings obligation regulatory liability due to Tax Cuts and Jobs Act		$ 2,700,000																																$ 2,700,000
Issuance of bond by government authority																									$ 713,000,000
Proceed from loan by government authority to corporation																									702,700,000
Amount transfer to restricted escrow account as storm damage reserve by corporation																									290,000,000
Amount Transferred to subsidiary																									412,700,000
Amount used to acquire membership interest units in wholly owned Subsidiary																									$ 412,700,000
Class preferred non voting membership interest units acquired in wholly owned Subsidiary | shares																									4,126,940.15
Annual distribution rate																									9.00%
Liquidation price per unit | $ / unit																									100
Net worth required under terms of membership interest																									$ 1,000,000,000
Entergy Louisiana [Member] | Hurricanes Ida, Laura, Delta, Zeta, and Winter Storm Uri [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Total Restoration Costs For Repair and Replacement of Electrical System									$ 2,570,000,000
Aggregate principal amount of system restoration bonds authorization requested									1,657,000,000																					1,657,000,000			1,657,000,000			$ 1,491,000,000
Carrying costs associated with storm restoration costs									59,200,000
Entergy Louisiana [Member] | Hurricane Francine
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Total Restoration Costs For Repair and Replacement of Electrical System				183,600,000
Deferred Storm and Property Reserve Deficiency, Noncurrent				152,800,000																											152,800,000
Non-capital storm costs				29,800,000
Carrying costs associated with storm restoration costs				3,600,000
Public Utilities, Requested Rate Increase (Decrease), Amount				152,800,000
Amount requested for recovery from storm reserve escrow account				33,500,000
Entergy Louisiana [Member] | Hurricane Francine | Subsequent Event [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Receipts from storm reserve escrow accounts			$ 33,500,000
Entergy Finance Company, LLC [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Proceeds from issuance of preferred interest distributed from EFC to EHC														1,400,000,000
Proceeds from issuance of preferred interest distributed from EFC to ETR														$ 1,700,000,000
Entergy Holdings Company LLC [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Class preferred non voting membership interest units acquired in wholly owned Subsidiary | shares																							2,935,152.69
Annual distribution rate																							7.50%
Liquidation price per unit | $ / unit																							100
Net worth required under terms of membership interest																							$ 1,750,000,000
Entergy Holdings Company LLC [Member] | Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Class preferred non voting membership interest units acquired in majority owned subsidiary | shares														6,843,780.24
Class preferred non voting membership interest units sold in majority owned subsidiary | shares																																							500,000
Entergy Holdings Company LLC [Member] | Hurricane Gustav And Ike [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Class preferred non voting membership interest units acquired in majority owned subsidiary | shares														4,126,940.15
Entergy Holdings Company LLC [Member] | Hurricane Isaac [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Class preferred non voting membership interest units acquired in majority owned subsidiary | shares														2,935,152.69
Entergy Mississippi [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Proceeds from Issuance of Long-Term Debt																															395,881,000	396,833,000	249,266,000
Monthly storm damage provision																													1,750,000
Storm Damage Provision Balance						15,000,000																							15,000,000			15,000,000			15,000,000
Storm damage provision balance at which collections will resume																													$ 10,000,000						$ 10,000,000
Asset Recovery Damaged Property Costs, Noncurrent				0		656,000																									0	656,000
Receipts from storm reserve escrow accounts						34,500,000																									736,000	34,493,000	0
Entergy Mississippi [Member] | Storm cost recovery combined dual cost filing
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Public Utilities, Requested Rate Increase (Decrease), Amount					$ 5,200,000
Vegetation management and storm damage provision					70,000,000
Vegetation management and storm damage provision balance at which collections will resume					$ 60,000,000
Entergy New Orleans [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Proceeds from Issuance of Long-Term Debt																															148,913,000	14,610,000	0
Replenishment amount for storm reserve spending																						$ 63,900,000
Up front financing costs associated with securitization																						$ 3,000,000
Asset Recovery Damaged Property Costs, Noncurrent				$ 83,742,000		$ 78,731,000																									83,742,000	78,731,000
Receipts from storm reserve escrow accounts																															0	0	125,000,000
Entergy New Orleans [Member] | Hurricane Ida [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Total Restoration Costs For Repair and Replacement of Electrical System													$ 170,000,000
Carrying costs associated with storm restoration costs																														9,000,000
Estimated costs included in filing for total restoration costs for repair and replacement of electrical system													11,000,000
Prudently incurred storm restoration costs							$ 164,100,000
Outages from storm																			100.00%
Reduction to requested total restoration costs for repair and replacement of electrical system													$ 46,000,000
storm securitization costs approved for securitization allocated to Hurricane Ida											$ 125,000,000
Carrying costs associated with storm restoration costs deemed prudently incurred							7,500,000
Storm costs deemed previously recovered through base rates							1,200,000
Credits available to be applied to future storm costs							$ 900,000
Receipts from storm reserve escrow accounts									125,000,000									39,000,000
Entergy New Orleans [Member] | Hurricane Zeta [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Excess withdrawn replacement reserve escrow														$ 7,000,000
Entergy New Orleans [Member] | Hurricane [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Issuance of bond by government authority									209,300,000																					$ 209,300,000			209,300,000
Amount transfer to restricted escrow account as storm damage reserve by corporation									200,000,000
Replenishment amount for storm reserve spending																$ 150,000,000
initial funding for storm reserve spending												$ 75,000,000
storm restoration costs approved for securitization											$ 206,000,000
Proceeds from Debt, Net of Issuance Costs									201,800,000
Up front financing costs associated with securitization									$ 1,800,000
Entergy Texas [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Proceeds from Issuance of Long-Term Debt																															$ 343,124,000	$ 344,895,000	$ 606,168,000
Entergy Texas [Member] | Hurricanes Laura and Delta and Winter Storm Uri [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Total Restoration Costs For Repair and Replacement of Electrical System																	$ 243,000,000			250,000,000
Deferred Storm and Property Reserve Deficiency, Noncurrent																				200,000,000
Non-capital storm costs																				50,000,000
Reclassification from utility plant to other regulatory assets																																					$ 153,000,000
Amount to be charged to storm reserve and excluded from securitization																		4,300,000
Amount to be excluded from securitization related to no particular issue																		5,000,000
Attestation costs to be excluded from securitization																		$ 300,000
Entergy Texas [Member] | Hurricanes Laura and Delta and Winter Storm Uri [Member] | Aggregate Senior secured restoration bonds (securitization bonds) [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Proceeds from Issuance of Debt															$ 290,850,000
Entergy Texas [Member] | Hurricane Harvey [Member]
Regulatory Asset [Line Items]
Regulatory Asset																																						$ 13,300,000
Remaining restoration costs for repair and replacement of electrical system; previously-approved																	$ 13,000,000			$ 13,000,000