by Justin Walters | Jan 19, 2024 | East Side Neighborhoods, Empowering Detroit, Our People, People, Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County, Your Neighborhood, Your Power
Crews have been working to modernize Detroit’s infrastructure and strengthen the grid to keep the power on for our customers, especially during extreme weather. This work is a part of our four-point plan to improve reliability which includes trimming trees, upgrading...
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 16, 2023 | Detroit - District 6, Downtown Midtown Neighborhoods, Empowering Detroit, Our People, People, Reliability Work Updates, Uncategorized, Wayne County, Your Power
DTE crews have been hard at work in front of Union Street Detroit, which is a popular restaurant that has served downtown Detroit neighborhoods on Woodward Ave since 1984. Overhead crews replaced the service line, which delivers energy from the nearby substation to...
by Justin Walters | Nov 16, 2023 | Our People, People, Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County, Your Neighborhood, Your Power
Dearborn has some of the area’s oldest infrastructure, in some cases dating back nearly a century. While the equipment has served the community well, we have been making upgrades throughout Dearborn as a part of our four-point plan to drive greater reliability and...
by Justin Walters | Nov 15, 2023 | Empowering Detroit, Our People, People, Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County, West Side Neighborhoods, Your Neighborhood, Your Power
Detroit’s increasing demand for energy is being met by our crews performing upgrades throughout the city. That includes enhancing our existing overhead infrastructure in the Grandmont-Rosedale neighborhood to help the system withstand extreme weather and reduce outage...