Fair Value (Fair Value and Unrealized Gains and Losses for the Nuclear Decommissioning Trust Funds) (Details) - DTE Electric - USD ($) $ in Millions	Jun. 30, 2022	Dec. 31, 2021
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Fair Value	$ 1,837	$ 2,071
Unrealized Gains	408	628
Unrealized Losses	(87)	(25)
Cash equivalents
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Fair Value	20	39
Unrealized Gains	0	0
Unrealized Losses	0	0
Private equity and other
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Fair Value	252	205
Unrealized Gains	75	58
Unrealized Losses	(3)	(8)
Hedge funds and similar investments
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Fair Value	126	76
Unrealized Gains	0	1
Unrealized Losses	(14)	(2)
Equity securities
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Fair Value	855	1,107
Unrealized Gains	329	546
Unrealized Losses	(23)	(9)
Fixed income securities
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Fair Value	584	644
Unrealized Gains	4	23
Unrealized Losses	$ (47)	$ (6)

Decommissioning Fund Investments, Accumulated Gross Unrealized Gain, Before Tax

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The fair value of investments held in a trust fund to pay for the costs of decontaminating and decommissioning facilities, whether such amount is presented as a separate caption or as a parenthetical disclosure on the balance sheet. Additionally, this element may be used in connection with the fair value disclosures required in the footnote disclosures to the financial statements.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 410
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6392692&loc=d3e7535-110849

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