by Justin Walters | Feb 9, 2024 | Ann Arbor, Our People, People, Reliability Work Updates, Uncategorized, Washtenaw County, Your Neighborhood, Your Power
We are committed to delivering reliable energy to our customers. This is why we trimmed more than 5,000 miles last year alone of overgrown trees and branches throughout our service territory. Crews were recently in Ann Arbor on Jackson Road and Dino Drive to trim...
by Justin Walters | Jan 22, 2024 | Macomb County, Our People, Reliability Work Updates, Your Neighborhood, Your Power
The technology we are using in Macomb County will improve reliability for our customers for years to come. Crews have been installing smart grid technology, called reclosers, to respond to outages quicker and pinpoint potential issues with equipment. Installing...
by Justin Walters | Jan 22, 2024 | Macomb County, Our People, People, Reliability Work Updates, Your Neighborhood, Your Power
We are building the grid of the future to improve electric reliability and reduce outages for our customers. A key part of our plan is the acceleration to smart grid technology, which can detect when and where an outage occurs on our grid. Recently, crews were in...
by Justin Walters | Jan 19, 2024 | East Side Neighborhoods, Empowering Detroit, Our People, People, Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County, Your Neighborhood, Your Power
Crews have been working to modernize Detroit’s infrastructure and strengthen the grid to keep the power on for our customers, especially during extreme weather. This work is a part of our four-point plan to improve reliability which includes trimming trees, upgrading...
by Justin Walters | Jan 18, 2024 | Ann Arbor, Our People, People, Reliability Work Updates, Washtenaw County, Your Neighborhood, Your Power
Trees damaging electric equipment are responsible for 50% of the time that our customers spend without power. DTE invests millions of dollars each year to trim back these trees. While we respond to trees that have fallen and caused outages, we also have a robust,...