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Accounts Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss, , Uncollectible Accounts That Were Previously Written Off

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Accounts Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss, Uncollectible Accounts That Are Not Yet Written Off

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Percent of Customers Whose Gas Cost Portion Of Bill Is Excluded From Allowance For Uncollectable Account

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APT has a regulatory mechanism that requires that we share with its tariffed customers a set percentage, as determined through the rate case filings, of the difference between the total non-tariffed revenues earned during a test period and a revenue benchmark.

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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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Amount of expense (reversal of expense) for expected credit loss on accounts receivable.

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Revenue and Accounts Receivable - Narrative (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended		33 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2024	Dec. 31, 2023	Dec. 31, 2024	Nov. 30, 2023
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Percent of customers excluded	89.00%
Reduction to bad debt expense	$ (8,623)	$ (6,750)
Recovery of uncollectible accounts, not yet been written off		$ 4,192
Mississippi Public Service Commission
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Recovery of uncollectible accounts, term		2 years		1 year
Reduction to bad debt expense		$ 13,900
Recovery of uncollectible accounts, previously written off but not yet recovered through rates			$ 9,700
Recovery of uncollectible accounts, not yet been written off		$ 4,200
Pipeline and storage segment
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Regulatory mechanism threshold	75.00%