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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=121572278&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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Amortization period for the recovery of regulatory asset, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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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 ($)	Aug. 03, 2020	Jan. 28, 2020	Oct. 11, 2019	Jan. 28, 2019	Oct. 27, 2018	Oct. 25, 2018	Jun. 30, 2020	Sep. 30, 2019	Jun. 30, 2019
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission \| UGI Gas
Regulatory Assets
Public utilities, requested rate increase (decrease), amount		$ 74,600,000		$ 71,100,000
Public utilities, approved rate increase (decrease), amount			$ 30,000,000.0
Tax benefit to be returned			5 years
Energy Efficiency and Conservation and Growth extension tariff, extension term				$ 24,000,000.0
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission \| UGI Gas \| Subsequent Event
Regulatory Assets
Public utilities, requested rate increase (decrease), amount	$ 20,000,000.0
Property, plant and equipment, net threshold	$ 2,875,000,000.0
Amortization period	10 years
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission \| UGI Gas \| Subsequent Event \| Beginning January 1, 2021
Regulatory Assets
Public utilities, requested rate increase (decrease), amount	$ 10,000,000.0
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission \| UGI Gas \| Subsequent Event \| Beginning July 1, 2021
Regulatory Assets
Public utilities, requested rate increase (decrease), amount	$ 10,000,000.0
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission \| Electric Utility
Regulatory Assets
Public utilities, requested rate increase (decrease), amount						$ 3,200,000
Public utilities, customer billing credit					$ 200,000
Gas Utility
Regulatory Assets
Fair value of unrealized gains (losses)							$ 1,000,000.0	$ (2,200,000)	$ (2,100,000)