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 | 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 1, 2023 | Ann Arbor, Our People, People, Reliability Work Updates, Washtenaw County, Your Neighborhood, Your Power
DTE is working to improve Ann Arbor’s reliability and keep the power on for its residents through our four-point plan. As our customers’ needs change, we are finding ways to meet the improve our grid through in multiple ways. 50% of the time our customers spend...
by Amanda Fischer | Oct 11, 2023 | Ann Arbor, Reliability Work Updates, Washtenaw County, Your Neighborhood
DTE Energy is working to build the grid of the future in Ann Arbor. We have a four-point plan to improve reliability and improve our grid to support the evolving needs of customers now and far in the future — including trimming trees, upgrading existing...
by Justin Walters | Sep 19, 2023 | Ann Arbor, Our People, People, Reliability Work Updates, Uncategorized, Washtenaw County, Your Neighborhood, Your Power
To support our four-point plan we are taking steps to implement smart grid technology throughout our service territory to improve reliability for our customers. In short, transitioning to a ‘smart grid’ means focusing on automation to isolate outages and providing our...
