by Justin Walters | May 24, 2023 | Bloomfield Hills, Empowering Detroit, Oakland County, Our People, Reliability Work Updates, Your Neighborhood, Your Power
DTE gets crews in the field as quickly as safely possible whenever an outage occurs. In Bloomfield Hills, our crews were brought in to perform an underground residential distribution repair. This project was in response to an outage in the area and our crews isolated...
by Justin Walters | May 24, 2023 | Livonia, Our People, Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County, Your Neighborhood, Your Power
As part of DTE’s four-prong plan of grid improvement keeping the power on for our customers, we have teams inspect our poles to make sure they are strong enough to support the equipment that powers our communities. To do that, we take a sample of wood and assess how...
by Justin Walters | May 24, 2023 | Our People, Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County, Your Neighborhood
As a part of our four-point investment plan to build a stronger grid, we are rebuilding some of the oldest portions of our grid. Capacitors store and release electrical energy in a circuit when a high voltage is applied. These pieces of equipment are key to increasing...
by Justin Walters | May 23, 2023 | Ann Arbor, Our People, Reliability Work Updates, Washtenaw County, Your Neighborhood
DTE Energy is accelerating the work needed to create a resilient, world-class grid — and much of this work is happening in Washtenaw County. For example, DTE crews working in Ann Arbor recently replaced a power pole that was beyond its lifespan and, while doing...
by Justin Walters | May 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
Part of our investment in a more reliable grid includes taking wires that were previously overhead, routing them to transformers and converting them to underground. Once those jobs are completed, crews come back to strip poles of wiring, old equipment, and remove the...
