DTE Electric Company, MI
Power reliability at DTE Electric Company
1.2 separate outages last year, 3.2 hours without power in total - that is DTE Electric Company's record for Michigan, running ahead of the national median. That is 71% less outage time than the Michigan state average of 11.2 hours a year.
How long a single DTE Electric Company outage runs
A typical outage here runs about 2.8 hours - long enough that a battery alone usually will not see you through, but short enough that a fuel-powered portable generator is a reasonable match. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
Do DTE Electric Company customers need a generator
Serving 2,275,368 customers here, DTE Electric Company customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
How DTE Electric Company's record was measured
DTE Electric Company filed these numbers itself, as an investor-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Michigan territory, serving 2,275,368 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Michigan as a whole, across every utility that filed: Michigan's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.