Overhead crews were upgrading equipment in a Rochester neighborhood this week. Our team replaced an old utility pole and upgraded the cross arms, cutouts and a transformer on Helen Avenue between Fairview and First, near Ascension Providence Hospital. These...
Tree trim crews were busy this week working to improve reliability for customers living in Bloomfield Township, Rochester Hills and Auburn Hills. The work pictured below was done along Ashover Road — crews worked along Winchcombe and Ledbury as well. This work will...
We have good news for customers living in Rochester. Our team was in your area this week working to improve your reliability. Overhead crews upgraded an exhausted utility pole near the corner of Production Drive and West Hamlin Road. The crew installed a cable pole,...
DTE crews have been doing many upgrades to our infrastructure, and one of the reoccurring improvements is installing and “framing” new utility poles to boost power reliability to homes and businesses. But what if we told you that framing of poles holding...
DTE dispatched crews throughout Oakland County to improve reliability for customers. One location was in Rochester on Winkler Mill Rd. near Stoney Creek Lake. Overhead crews replaced two old, weathered utility poles—one which was leaning noticeably—with taller,...
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...