by Justin Walters | Feb 9, 2024 | Ann Arbor, Our People, People, Reliability Work Updates, Uncategorized, Washtenaw County, Your Neighborhood, Your Power
We are committed to delivering reliable energy to our customers. This is why we trimmed more than 5,000 miles last year alone of overgrown trees and branches throughout our service territory. Crews were recently in Ann Arbor on Jackson Road and Dino Drive to trim...
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 | Uncategorized
DTE has activated its four-point plan to drive reliability and system improvements for our customers in Ann Arbor. We are doing this by trimming trees, updating our existing infrastructure, rebuilding significant portions of the grid and accelerating our transition to...
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...
