by BC Trimble | Dec 2, 2021 | Farmington Hills, Oakland County, Reliability Work Updates
If you were one of the many shoppers visiting Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi earlier this week, you may have noticed a few DTE trucks in the parking lot near the famed water tower and Chik-fil-A entrance. This is because our crews were putting in some underground lines to...
by Madison Hurley | Nov 30, 2021 | Oakland County, Your Neighborhood
Our crews were working on installing a new pole on Wolverine Road where a new home is being built. The two existing utility poles were spaced apart which was causing the lines to hang low in the center. The new pole was placed to raise and support primary and...
by Madison Hurley | Nov 30, 2021 | Oakland County, Reliability Work Updates, West Bloomfield
Our underground crews worked together with contractors to disconnect power to a building that is being demolished on Orchard Lake Road. The workers first had to place tags on the utility pole to ensure no work below the tags would be done until authorized by the crew...
by Farah Fayz | Nov 24, 2021 | Oak Park, Oakland County, Reliability Work Updates
A line went down at the substation located at Coolidge Highway and Oak Park Blvd., causing an outage to some of our customers in Oak Park. Our line workers went out and transferred the deenergized power lines to a different circuit to restore power in these...
by Madison Hurley | Nov 24, 2021 | Oakland County, Reliability Work Updates, Rochester Hills
Overhead DTE crews responded to a leaning pole on S Adams Road. Strong winds from recent severe weather contributed to the pole’s leaning position. A new pole and transformer were both installed first so that the crew could transfer over primary and secondary lines. ...
by Madison Hurley | Nov 24, 2021 | Oakland County, Reliability Work Updates, West Bloomfield
DTE overhead crews worked together to install a new pole and upgrade reliability for customers previously served by a pole on Muerdale Blvd in West Bloomfield Township. They started work at the top of the older pole and worked their way down, transferring the lines to...
