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Financial and Other Derivative Instruments (Details Textuals) (USD $)
Mar. 31, 2015
Dec. 31, 2014
Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Disclosure [Abstract]    
Letters of credit that could be used to offset net derivative liabilities $ 0dte_Lettersofcreditthatcouldbeusedtooffsetnetderivativeliabilities $ 7,000,000dte_Lettersofcreditthatcouldbeusedtooffsetnetderivativeliabilities
Letters of credit received that could be used to offset net derivative assets 1,000,000dte_LettersofCreditReceivedthatcouldbeusedtooffsetnetderivativeliabilities 5,000,000dte_LettersofCreditReceivedthatcouldbeusedtooffsetnetderivativeliabilities
Cash collateral posted, net of cash collateral received 85,000,000dte_CashCollateralPostedNetOfCashCollateralReceived 61,000,000dte_CashCollateralPostedNetOfCashCollateralReceived
Derivative Asset, Collateral, Obligation to Return Cash, Offset 1,000,000us-gaap_DerivativeAssetCollateralObligationToReturnCashOffset 0us-gaap_DerivativeAssetCollateralObligationToReturnCashOffset
Collateral adjustment 46,000,000us-gaap_DerivativeLiabilityCollateralRightToReclaimCashOffset 19,000,000us-gaap_DerivativeLiabilityCollateralRightToReclaimCashOffset
Cash collateral received 3,000,000dte_Cashcollateralreceivednotrelatedtounrealizedderivativepositions 2,000,000dte_Cashcollateralreceivednotrelatedtounrealizedderivativepositions
Cash collateral paid 43,000,000dte_Cashcollateralpaidnotrelatedtounrealizedderivativepositions 44,000,000dte_Cashcollateralpaidnotrelatedtounrealizedderivativepositions
Additional collateral, aggregate fair value 416,000,000us-gaap_AdditionalCollateralAggregateFairValue  
Derivative net liability position aggregate fair value 726,000,000us-gaap_DerivativeNetLiabilityPositionAggregateFairValue  
Collateral already posted fair value 4,000,000us-gaap_CollateralAlreadyPostedAggregateFairValue  
Derivative net asset position, fair value 630,000,000dte_DerivativeNetAssetPositionAggregateFairValue  
Remaining amount of offsets to derivative net liability positions for hard and soft trigger provisions $ 92,000,000dte_Remainingamountofoffsetstoderivativenetliabilitypositionsforhardandsofttriggerprovisions