DTE Energy Company

Rule Changes

Detroit's sole electricity provider, facing council exploration of alternatives

Detroit's city council voted to explore alternatives to DTE Energy, the utility that has supplied the city's electricity for over a century. The vote follows years of complaints about storm response, outages, and a proposed rate hike that would add about $11 to the average monthly bill.

Updated 3 days ago

Built World

Restoring power to affected customers

A line of severe storms swept through Southeast Michigan on Sept. 3-4, knocking out power to more than 350,000 utility customers and dropping an EF-2 tornado on Detroit's east side. The tornado was the first to touch down inside Detroit city limits in nearly 30 years.

Updated 6 days ago

Rule Changes

Found liable as operator; appealing ruling to Sixth Circuit

EES Coke Battery has no employees. Every worker at the Zug Island coke plant near Detroit is on the payroll of a DTE Energy subsidiary. For years, that corporate arrangement helped DTE argue it wasn't responsible for the facility's sulfur dioxide pollution. On February 17, a federal judge disagreed—and used that very arrangement as evidence to hold three DTE parent entities liable as "operators" under the Clean Air Act, ordering them to pay $100 million.

Updated May 29