by Alina Zhuravel | Jan 10, 2023 | Detroit - District 6, Downtown Midtown Neighborhoods, Empowering Detroit, Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County
DTE crews were recently out in Midtown, near West Willis Street and Cass Avenue, doing maintenance work on our “fault indicators.” These devices, used to predict underground cable faults, are powered by the amperage (also known as electrical current) from our existing...
by Alina Zhuravel | Jan 10, 2023 | Detroit - District 6, Downtown Midtown Neighborhoods, Empowering Detroit, Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County
DTE crews were recently out in Detroit, near Brush and East Canfield Streets and Detroit medical Center, upgrading equipment after a cable joint failure. Our team swiftly and safely worked in a manhole to install new cabling to the grid, restoring it to operational...
by Alina Zhuravel | Jan 5, 2023 | Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County
Did you know trees are responsible for an overwhelming majority of outages during extreme weather? The closer tree branches grow next to power lines, the greater the risk of power disruptions. Recently, tree trimming crews worked south of the Jeffries Freeway in the...
by Alina Zhuravel | Jan 5, 2023 | Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County
You may have recently noticed an orange “work area ahead” sign, just south of the Jeffries Freeway at the corner of Archdale Street and Fargo Avenue. This means that tree trimmers were out improving reliability in your neighborhood. How? Our team sawed off branches...
by Alina Zhuravel | Dec 29, 2022 | Reliability Work Updates, Wayne County
Tree trimmers were recently out in Detroit’s Poletown East neighborhood, near Chene Street and East Kirby Avenue, creating the proper clearance between tree branches and our overhead infrastructure. Our team sawed off overgrown tree limbs that could have interfered...
