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Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co., et al. – ‘8-K’ for 11/10/22 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On: Thursday, 11/10/22, at 4:06pm ET · For: 11/10/22 · Accession #: 1081316-22-49 · File #s: 0-00508, 0-52378, 1-05152, 1-14881, 1-37591, 333-15387, 333-90553, 333-266049

  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

11/10/22  Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co.     8-K:7,9    11/10/22   11:379K
          Pacificorp/OR
          Sierra Pacific Power Co.
          Eastern Gas Transmission & Storage, Inc.
          Midamerican Funding LLC
          Eastern Energy Gas Holdings, LLC
          Nevada Power Co.
          Midamerican Energy Co.

Current Report — Form 8-K

Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 8-K         Berkshire Hathaway Energy Company 11.10.22 Form     HTML    111K 
                8-K                                                              
 6: R1          Cover                                               HTML     80K 
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 8: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     10K 
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10: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks               15±    23K 
11: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001081316-22-000049-xbrl      Zip     29K

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Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co., et al. – ‘8-K’ for 11/10/22 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On: Thursday, 11/10/22, at 4:06pm ET · For: 11/10/22 · Accession #: 1081316-22-49 · File #s: 0-00508, 0-52378, 1-05152, 1-14881, 1-37591, 333-15387, 333-90553, 333-266049

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