by David Akerly | May 16, 2024 | Livonia, Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County, Your Neighborhood
DTE Energy is dedicated to constructing a smarter, stronger more resilient grid to enhance reliability. Our commitment to our customers is to reduce power outages by 30% and to cut outage durations in half —by 2029. In Livonia, our dedicated frontline crews and...
by Justin Walters | Feb 16, 2024 | Livonia, Our People, People, Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County, Your Neighborhood, Your Power
In Livonia, there are sections of the grid that have infrastructure that is over 40 years. The wires and poles that have previously supported the electric energy in the city are in need of an upgrade and crews are working to rebuild significant portions of the grid....
by David Akerly | Dec 6, 2023 | Livonia
January 31, 2024 Since last fall, DTE Energy has been engaged in advancing electric reliability work on several key circuits in Livonia. We analyzed the data and chose eight circuits that had performed lower than our standards, setting a work plan in motion to make...
by Justin Walters | Jun 7, 2023 | Livonia, Our People, Wayne County, Your Neighborhood, Your Power
As part of DTE’s four-prong plan of grid improvement keeping the power on for our customers, teams are strengthening poles to make sure they are strong enough to support the equipment that powers our communities. To do that, we use equipment like what you see below to...
by Justin Walters | May 24, 2023 | Livonia, Our People, Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County, Your Neighborhood, Your Power
As part of DTE’s four-prong plan of grid improvement keeping the power on for our customers, we have teams inspect our poles to make sure they are strong enough to support the equipment that powers our communities. To do that, we take a sample of wood and assess how...
by Alina Zhuravel | Jan 13, 2023 | Ann Arbor, Bloomfield Hills, Clinton Twp, Detroit - District 6, Farmington, Farmington Hills, Harper Woods, Highland Township, Inkster, Livingston County, Livonia, Macomb County, Metamora, Monroe County, Oak Park, Oakland County, Reliability Work Updates, Rochester Hills, Rose Township, South Lyon, Southfield, Thumb Area, Washtenaw County, Wayne, Wayne County, West Bloomfield, Westland, Your Neighborhood
DTE is committed to taking a proactive approach to improving our electric grid. One tool our team uses to accomplish this is an “underground fault indicator.” This device takes thermal images of our underground system for the purpose of identifying a potential fault...
