by Jack Reynolds | Oct 25, 2021 | Detroit - District 6, Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County
Our reliability work continued in Detroit this past week where one of our crews was working off Grand River Ave and Alexandrine St. this week performing maintenance work to a circuit that feeds thousands of nearby residents. The crew made preventative upgrades to the...
by Jack Reynolds | Oct 25, 2021 | Detroit - District 6, Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County, Your Neighborhood
This past week, one of our crews arrived at their work location in Detroit to replace a utility pole when they noticed an injured woodpecker stuck to a cable wire. Chad Cratsenburg, a DTE apprentice line worker, quickly climbed the pole and saved the bird. “The bird...
by Je'well Pearson | Oct 20, 2021 | Detroit - District 6, Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County, Your Power
We receive this question often especially after our customers lose power. We do bury power lines. For over 50 years, we have been installing underground cables where feasible. In fact, well over one-third of the DTE system is currently underground. Since 1970,...
by Jack Reynolds | Oct 19, 2021 | Detroit - District 6, Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County
One of the first steps in improving power reliability in an area is to properly analyze and patrol the circuits that feed that community. This is done by a team of DTE engineers and supervisors who analyze power reliability data and then physically patrol each...
by Jack Reynolds | Oct 12, 2021 | Detroit - District 6, Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County
A tree fell and caused a power line to catch fire last week in a neighborhood off Grand River in Detroit, resulting in a small-scale outage and safety hazard for nearby residents. A DTE overhead crew quickly came out to secure the hazard and replace the burnt line....
by Jack Reynolds | Oct 6, 2021 | Detroit - District 6, Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County
Storms are a certainty throughout the summer in Michigan, and this year’s storm season has been relentless. Your community has been hit by 12 storms this summer, many of them severe, that caused significant damage to poles, power lines, electrical equipment, trees,...
