Public Utilities, Energy Efficiency and Conservation and Growth Extension Tariff, Extension Term

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Public Utilities, Tax Benefits Received, To Be Returned

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Tax Cuts And Jobs Act Of 2017, Customer Billing Credit

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Fair value of the assets less the liabilities of a derivative or group of derivatives.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 825
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 10
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=118260190&loc=d3e13433-108611

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Amount of public utility's approved rate increase (decrease) by regulatory agency.

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Amount of public utility's requested rate increase (decrease) with regulatory agency.

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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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Utility Regulatory Assets and Liabilities and Regulatory Matters - Narrative (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Jan. 28, 2020	Oct. 11, 2019	Jan. 28, 2019	Oct. 27, 2018	Oct. 25, 2018	Mar. 31, 2020	Sep. 30, 2019	Mar. 31, 2019
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission \| UGI Gas
Regulatory Assets
Public utilities, requested rate increase (decrease), amount	$ 74.6		$ 71.1
Public utilities, approved rate increase (decrease), amount		$ 30.0
Tax benefit to be returned			$ 24.0
Energy Efficiency and Conservation and Growth extension tariff, extension term		5 years
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission \| Electric Utility
Regulatory Assets
Public utilities, requested rate increase (decrease), amount					$ 3.2
Public utilities, customer billing credit				$ 0.2
Gas Utility
Regulatory Assets
Fair value of unrealized gains (losses)						$ (0.5)	$ (2.2)	$ 1.0