by DTE Social Media Team | Oct 4, 2018 | Your Neighborhood
A sneaky culprit is decreasing many businesses’ energy efficiency while driving up costs – plug loads. Simply put, plug loads describes devices or equipment that get their energy from an outlet in your business. Not inclusive of a building’s HVAC or lighting system,...
by DTE Social Media Team | Oct 1, 2018 | Your Neighborhood
Customers who participated in DTE Energy’s efficiency programs in 2017 will cumulatively save nearly $649 million on their energy bills over a lifetime, according to the company’s 2017 Energy Waste Reduction Annual Report. Chris Kashat, manager of Keg and Wine Party...
by DTE Social Media Team | Aug 16, 2018 | Your Power
Lighting is important. In fact, it’s so ingrained in our lives we hardly even notice or step back to appreciate it until it’s not there. Thomas Edison invented the first incandescent light in 1879 and since then, there have been vast improvements to indoor lighting....
by DTE Social Media Team | Jul 31, 2018 | Your Power
This article originally appeared in DTE Energy’s EnergySmarts for Michigan Business, a free publication for our customers. Savvy business owners know a 20-percent energy bill reduction is easily achieved by replacing incandescent bulbs and high-intensity discharge...
by DTE Social Media Team | Jul 31, 2018 | Your Power
This article originally appeared in DTE Energy’s EnergySmarts for Michigan Business, a free publication for our customers. It doesn’t take a mathematician to figure it out: If you use less energy, the cost of doing business is reduced. That equation is the...
