DTE Electric Rates, Bills, Service Area and Reliability

DTE Electric reported 2,078,315 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 623 kWh a month on average at 20.25 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 20 Michigan utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, DTE Electric ranks 16 from the lowest price.

Another 13 residential customers use DTE Electric for delivery only and buy their energy from a different supplier. EIA reports their delivery revenue at about 10.45 cents per kWh, or $89.74 a month, which does not include the supply price.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), sales to ultimate customers. Price is revenue divided by sales and includes fixed charges.

EIA lists the counties where DTE Electric has distribution equipment. That covers 25 counties in Michigan. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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For 2025, DTE Electric reported an average of 151 minutes without power per customer and 1.07 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 141 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

DTE Electric had about 23 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Michigan figure across its utilities was 161 minutes. One interruption lasting 141 minutes and 1.07 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 151 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under IEEE 1366. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. DTE Electric reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 22,447 residential customers enrolled in dynamic pricing programs of all kinds. Ask the utility which rate schedules you qualify for. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 11,672 residential net-metered systems on the DTE Electric grid in 2025, with 78.7 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

A private company owned by shareholders. A state commission reviews its costs and sets or approves its rates in formal rate cases. In Michigan, that review is done by the Michigan Public Service Commission.

DTE Electric is an investor-owned utility based in Michigan.

DTE Electric operates in the MISO power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Of the 28 utilities listed for Michigan, DTE Electric is the 1st largest by homes, at roughly 45.8% of the state total. Among 4 other investor-owned utilities in Michigan, the median price is 19.66 cents per kWh, so DTE Electric at 20.25 cents is 0.59 cents above its peers. At $126.06 a month, an average DTE Electric home pays about $13 a year less than the Michigan average of $127.17, and uses 12 kWh a month less. DTE Electric lists distribution equipment in 25 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 11,672 of its residential customers use net metering, or 5.6 per 1,000 homes, against 6.3 for Michigan as a whole.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in Michigan with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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