by Alina Zhuravel | May 3, 2022 | Oakland County, Reliability Work Updates
Royal Oak residents may notice new poles around town, but what they don’t see is what the pole installation process is really like. Here’s a glimpse at the challenges our crews face to keep power flowing reliably to your home when you need it. Many times, they...
by Alina Zhuravel | Apr 14, 2022 | Central Neighborhoods, Detroit - District 6, Empowering Detroit, Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County
As the 1-94 expressway is being expanded in Detroit, DTE is making sure the construction project doesn’t impact the community’s electric service. A DTE crew worked in a manhole on the corner of Cass Avenue and Burroughs Street. This is part of the crew’s process to...
by Kaitlynn Riley | Mar 29, 2022 | Reliability Work Updates, Wayne, Wayne County
Underground DTE crews added new cables to a recently installed transformer on Cogswell Road off Van Born in Wayne Township. Underground transformers work differently than transformers on utility poles. Primary cables travel from the utility pole going underground to...
by Madison Hurley | Dec 22, 2021 | Livingston County, Macomb County, Oakland County, Reliability Work Updates, Your Neighborhood
Utility poles are a very common sight throughout Michigan and most parts of the world. You see them every time you go outside. Just in our service territory alone, we have more than one million poles helping us distribute electricity to nearby buildings and homes. But...
by BC Trimble | Dec 15, 2021 | Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County, Westland
Hello Westland customers! You may have seen our trucks or some of our contracted crews hard at work this week in your community. We’ve had workers out around the clock restoring power and repairing damaged equipment from the storms last weekend. One example of such...
