by BC Trimble | Sep 23, 2022 | Highland Township, Oakland County, Reliability Work Updates, Rose Township
Customers along M-59 in White Lake, near the border of Highland Township, will be happy to know DTE teams worked in their area to improve electric reliability. We had crews out making equipment upgrades on main lines like at the location pictured below near the corner...
by BC Trimble | Aug 25, 2022 | Highland Township, Oakland County, Reliability Work Updates
August has been an exciting month for some of our linemen here at DTE. A lot of hard work has just paid off as another class of apprentices graduated on August 8th. We celebrate these individuals on this major career achievement. There were 10 apprentices that just...
by BC Trimble | Aug 3, 2022 | Highland Township, Oakland County, Reliability Work Updates, Rose Township
Customers in Highland Township will be happy to know our overhead crews put in a new cable pole in their area this week. Cable poles are vital pieces of our infrastructure as they combine both overhead and underground systems (you can read more about cable poles...
by BC Trimble | Aug 2, 2022 | Highland Township, Oakland County, Reliability Work Updates, Rose Township
Did you know many of our utility poles are outfitted with guards or deterrents that protect wildlife from endangering themselves and our system? They’re small, subtle features to protect small squirrels, racoons, skunks, rats, cats, birds and the like that...
by BC Trimble | May 2, 2022 | Highland Township, Oakland County, Reliability Work Updates, Rose Township
You may, at some point, have read a reliability update or heard a DTE line worker in your area mention a ‘buck pole’ and it went right over your head. Here’s a little crash course to explain this phrasing and, more importantly, how these poles provide...
by BC Trimble | Mar 7, 2022 | Highland Township, Oakland County, Reliability Work Updates, Rose Township
The technical term for the device is a cutout. Essentially, it’s a fuse and switch combined into one. It’s a critical piece of equipment, as cutouts protect transformers from power surges and overloads. Over the last several years, these valuable little devices...
