Equipment Related to Power Purchase Agreements and Fuel Delivered to Customers, net (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022	Dec. 31, 2021
Lessor, Lease, Description [Line Items]
Depreciation expense	$ 8.0	$ 6.9	$ 7.4
Impairment charge related to the tanks	$ 0.2	$ 1.5	10.2
Cost Of Revenue, Fuel Delivered To Customers
Lessor, Lease, Description [Line Items]
Termination costs			$ 17.0
Minimum
Lessor, Lease, Description [Line Items]
Lease term	1 year	1 year
Maximum
Lessor, Lease, Description [Line Items]
Lease term	10 years	10 years

Amount of contact termination costs.

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The amount of expense recognized in the current period that reflects the allocation of the cost of lessor assets under operating lease over the assets' useful lives.

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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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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Topic 842
-SubTopic 30
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
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Term of lessor's operating lease, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Topic 842
-SubTopic 30
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
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-Publisher FASB
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Amount of loss from impairment of right-of-use asset from operating lease.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Topic 842
-SubTopic 20
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Section 25
-Paragraph 6
-Subparagraph (c)
-Publisher FASB
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