Long-term Debt and Capital Lease Obligations Long-term Debt and Capital Lease Obligations (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2014

Long-term Debt and Capital Lease Obligations, Including Current Maturities [Abstract]

Schedule of Long-term Debt Instruments [Table Text Block]

PacifiCorp's long-term debt and capital lease obligations were as follows as of December 31 (in millions):

	2014						2013
					Average				Average
	Principal		Carrying		Interest		Carrying		Interest
	Amount		Value		Rate		Value		Rate
First mortgage bonds:
5.50% to 8.635%, due through 2019	$	862	$	861	5.63	%	$	1,070	5.53	%
2.95% to 8.53%, due 2021 to 2024	1,899		1,897		4.09		1,472		4.23
6.71% due 2026	100		100		6.71		100		6.71
5.90% to 7.70%, due 2031 to 2034	500		499		6.98		499		6.98
5.25% to 6.35%, due 2035 to 2039	2,800		2,792		5.97		2,791		5.97
4.10% due 2042	300		299		4.10		299		4.10
Tax-exempt bond obligations:
Variable rates, due 2015 to 2025(1)	223		223		0.03		325		0.17
Variable rates, due 2015 to 2024(1)(2)	221		221		0.02		221		0.06
Variable rates, due 2016 to 2025(2)	36		36		0.22		51		0.22
Variable rates, due 2017 to 2018	91		91		0.22		—		—
Total long-term debt	7,032		7,019				6,828
Capital lease obligations:
8.75% to 14.61%, due through 2035	34		34		11.33		49		11.47
Total long-term debt and capital lease
obligations	$	7,066	$	7,053			$	6,877

Reflected as:
	2014		2013
Current portion of long-term debt and capital lease obligations	$	134	$	238
Long-term debt and capital lease obligations	6,919		6,639
Total long-term debt and capital lease obligations	$	7,053	$	6,877

1) Supported by $451 million and $559 million of fully available letters of credit issued under committed bank arrangements as of December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively.

2) Secured by pledged first mortgage bonds registered to and held by the tax-exempt bond trustee generally with the same interest rates, maturity dates and redemption provisions as the tax-exempt bond obligations.

Schedule of Maturities of Long-term Debt [Table Text Block]

As of December 31, 2014, the annual maturities of long-term debt and capital lease obligations, excluding unamortized discounts and including interest on capital lease obligations, for 2015 and thereafter are as follows (in millions):

	Long-term			Capital Lease
	Debt			Obligations			Total
2015	$	132		$	5		$	137
2016	57			5			62
2017	52			10			62
2018	586			6			592
2019	350			5			355
Thereafter	5,855			31			5,886
Total	7,032			62			7,094
Unamortized discount	(13		)	—			(13		)
Amounts representing interest	—			(28		)	(28		)
Total	$	7,019		$	34		$	7,053