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,...
by Justin Walters | Dec 19, 2023 | Ann Arbor, Our People, People, Reliability Work Updates, Your Neighborhood
Recently, crews were dispatched to W. Huron River Drive and [street name] to trim back branches that were encroaching on power lines without causing damage to the trees. Tree trimming usually requires lane closures on the street, but the crews pictured below were able...
by Justin Walters | Nov 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
DTE has activated its four-point plan to drive reliability and system improvements for our customers in Ann Arbor. We are doing this by trimming trees, updating our existing infrastructure, rebuilding significant portions of the grid and accelerating our transition to...
by Justin Walters | Nov 17, 2023 | Ann Arbor, Our People, People, Reliability Work Updates, Washtenaw County, Your Neighborhood, Your Power
DTE crews have been in northwest and downtown Ann Arbor rebuilding significant portions of our grid as a part of our four point plan to increase electric reliability. To do this, we are investing $20 million to install miles of new, stronger utility poles, wires and...
by Justin Walters | Nov 16, 2023 | Detroit - District 6, Downtown Midtown Neighborhoods, Empowering Detroit, Our People, People, Reliability Work Updates, Uncategorized, Wayne County, Your Power
DTE crews have been hard at work in front of Union Street Detroit, which is a popular restaurant that has served downtown Detroit neighborhoods on Woodward Ave since 1984. Overhead crews replaced the service line, which delivers energy from the nearby substation to...
