by BC Trimble | Nov 22, 2021 | Farmington, Oakland County, Reliability Work Updates, Your Neighborhood
Hello Farmington residents! A team of tree trimmers were hard at work last week to make the grid in your city more safe and reliable. This team was working off of Orchard Lake Rd. Since a large amount of downtime hours during an outage is due to damage caused by...
by Farah Fayz | Nov 19, 2021 | Oakland County, Southfield, Your Neighborhood
Our tree trimmers were out in multiple Southfield neighborhoods this week clearing out fallen branches and other debris from around our power lines to improve reliability. We’ll be performing this work throughout neighborhoods in Southfield through the coming weeks as...
by Farah Fayz | Nov 19, 2021 | Harper Woods, Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County, Your Neighborhood
One of our crews was out in Harper Woods this week performing maintenance on a circuit to improve reliability. Here they are removing an old arch circuit, which is an old streetlight wire that isn’t being used anymore. They removed it to prevent any future issues,...
by Farah Fayz | Nov 19, 2021 | Harper Woods, Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County
Our system alerted us of a possible issue on one of our circuits in Harper Woods. When this happens, it doesn’t always mean that our customers are out of power; it could instead suggest a range of issues on the circuit. Our crew immediately went out and patrolled...
by Farah Fayz | Nov 19, 2021 | Detroit - District 6, Reliability Work Updates
Our tree trimmers were clearing out fallen branches and other debris from a customer’s backyard when they noticed the electrical house knob was broken, which normally holds electrical conductors in place. The customer called DTE, and our line workers came out and...
