ANN ARBOR — Ann Arbor’s city staff is proposing City Council set aside $1 million for the next phase of study as the city considers a takeover of DTE Energy locally. That figure was included in a budget presentation to council on March 11 as officials discussed priorities for the coming year, including giving further
DETROIT - DTE plans to invest $145 million to provide rebates for 19,300 chargers alongside additional private funding and federal grant dollars to collectively build 270,000 EV chargers in the coming years at public locations, as well as both single-family homes and multi-family buildings. Pina Bennett, DTE Energy’s director of electric sales and marketing, said
DETROIT - DTE Energy officials said they expect more than a quarter-million additional electric vehicles on the road across southeast Michigan by 2028 and they intend to build the chargers to power them. The utility company plans to invest $145 million to provide rebates for 19,300 chargers alongside additional private funding and federal grant dollars
DETRIUT — DTE Energy announced that the National Renewable Energy Laboratory has recognized DTE’s MIGreenPower program as the top utility green tariff program in the U.S. MIGreenPower enables DTE Electric customers to attribute an even greater percentage of their electricity use to Michigan-based wind and solar projects beyond the 15% DTE already provides. High and growing
LANSING — Michigan power providers would have to reach a 100% clean energy standard by 2040 under sweeping climate bills approved late Thursday and early Friday in the Democratic-led House. Legislators also voted to let renewable developers seek state permits to site large-scale wind and solar farms in communities that block the projects. The party-line
DETROIT - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel asked the Michigan Public Service Commission (MSPC) Chair to investigate DTE Energy’s eBill program. The eBill program automatically enrolls a customer in DTE’s paperless billing program without any affirmative consent by the customer. It could pose hardships to customers who are unaware and not monitoring email accounts for
ANN ARBOR - Activists in Ann Arbor have been developing a plan to remove the DTE Energy as the city's provider of electricity and replace it with a city-owned utility. Greg Woodring is leading the effort for the group called Ann Arbor for Public Power. Greg joins MITech TV to provide the back story and
TROY–A new sustainability index from the customer experience firm J.D. Power placed two Michigan utilities in the top five for sustainability among the nation’s electric utilities. Detroit-based DTE Energy tied for fourth place and Jackson-based CMS Energy finished fifth. However the index also found deep skepticism among utility customers about utilities’ sustainability claim, and that
LANSING - The Michigan Public Service Commission approved a settlement agreement on DTE Electric Co.’s integrated resource plan (IRP) for providing electricity that includes faster shutdown of the utility’s remaining coal-fired power plants and significant investment in wind and solar generation and energy storage. Today’s order (Case No. U-21193) approves a settlement agreement signed by
DETROIT - DTE Energy June 29 announced, effective July 3, Joi Harris, DTE Gas president, will be president and COO of DTE. In her new role, Harris will lead both utilities – DTE Gas and DTE Electric – as well as Customer Service, Information Technology, Corporate Services, and the Environmental Management and Safety organizations. She
