Landowners and officials from the community joined DTE to cut the ceremonial ribbon at the Pine River Solar Park ribbon cutting event April 25, 2025
DTE has completed construction of its newest solar park, Pine River Solar. Located in central Michigan’s Gratiot County, Pine River has 180,000 solar panels and will generate enough clean energy to power approximately 20,000 homes when fully online in May.
Pine River Solar is the second of three new solar parks that will come online in 2025 as we continue to build renewable energy projects to meet customer demand for more clean energy through DTE’s CleanVision MIGreenPower, the state’s largest community solar program. All of the parks under construction are funded by customers who are voluntarily enrolled in MIGreenPower and attribute up to 100% of their electricity use to clean, Michigan-made renewable energy. These new solar parks represent significant advancement toward our goal of achieving net zero carbon emissions and reaching Michigan’s new renewable energy standard of 60% by 2035.
“The completion of Pine River Solar will be another milestone in what has been DTE’s most active period of renewable development in its history,” said Matt Paul, president and chief operating officer, DTE Electric. “This is further evidence that DTE is the state’s leading investor and operator of renewable energy, and it also demonstrates DTE’s commitment to supporting economic development and thriving communities through local tax revenues that are improving the daily lives of our host communities’ residents.”
Since 2009, our investment in renewable energy has created an estimated 20,000 jobs in Michigan. Additionally, Pine River Solar will bring Pine River Township hundreds of thousands of dollars in added tax revenue, funding which can be used for roads, schools, first responders and other vital community services.
“We’re pleased to have developed a business relationship with DTE that began with Pine River Wind back in 2019,” said Kevin Beeson, Pine River Township supervisor. “When the company more recently approached us with their solar plans, we were confident that both sides wanted a successful project. From early planning through construction and startup, DTE was a partner willing to revise plans to accommodate resident input and township demands. Pine River Solar will further solidify DTE as our community’s largest taxpayer. We value their commitment to our township, and we look forward to their continued success in the renewable energy world.”
DTE already generates enough clean energy from wind and solar projects to power more than 750,000 homes and plans to power the equivalent of nearly 6 million homes with renewable energy by 2042. The company’s MIGreenPower program has enrolled nearly 100,000 residential and 1,600 business customers, with plans to add more than 2,400 megawatts of new wind and solar to support those enrollments over the next 10 years.
Learn how you can be a part of Michigan’s clean energy future at www.migreenpower.com.