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DTE Energy was recently selected as 2021 Corporation of the Year by the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC). The company has a long history of supporting diverse businesses. While DTE’s reputation for excellence and accomplishments are well known throughout Michigan, they’re now achieving success on a national level. DTE’s Supply Chain team uses an innovative combination of outreach, advocacy, and training to seek out minority-owned businesses and help them grow.
30-year DTE Energy veteran, Joi Harris, takes the helm of DTE Gas, serving 1.3 million residential and business customers across our service territory. Joi started shadowing engineers at the age of 15 and DTE as a company co-op at 18. As the new president of DTE Gas leading a team of 108,000 who are improving lives with their energy by keeping natural gas safe, reliable, and affordable for our customers. Read more on the announcement of Joi Harris.
DTE Energy is taking action to thwart a major source of storm damage to improve reliability for our customers and communities. Over the next year, we are investing an additional $70 million dollars in tree trimming to combat weather related power outages. In total, we are in investing over $250 million dollars annual to increase energy reliability by 60% in the communities we serve. Read more about our recent tree trim surge.
DTE’s CEO Jerry Norcia signed a pledge to join forces with The Valuable 500, a coalition of the world's largest companies dedicated to promoting disability inclusion in business. "At DTE, we understand that all people thrive and succeed when they feel included, welcome and safe,” said Norcia. “We're proud and excited to join with others to form The Valuable 500 as we continue to drive inclusion and empower people living with disabilities with support and opportunities in our company and our communities." “We know people with disabilities face bias, unique barriers to social and economic opportunities, and are disproportionately unemployed,” said David Meador, vice chairman and chief administrative officer. "To build an inclusive and diverse workforce – one of DTE’s top priorities – we have to ensure the fair and equal treatment of all people. By joining The Valuable 500, we’ll accelerate our work to recruit, employ and empower people with disabilities and encourage more Michigan businesses to do the same.” Learn more about DTE’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
DTE Energy is investing $300 million to ensure reliable and adequate power for the future. For the past decade, the Downtown and Midtown Detroit areas have been booming. Corporate offices, restaurants, shops, hotels and residents have been moving into the area, and there are many new construction projects on the horizon. With anticipation of several new neighbors moving into the area including the Wayne State University Gateway Theatre, proposed affordable housing apartment developments and many more, DTE Energy is working to ensure that our electric grid can meet the current and future needs of customers. DTE is investing almost $120 million into Downtown Detroit and $180 million into the Cass Corridor area in order to improve reliability and increase the ability to serve future growth. “We’re committed to investing in and building a more reliable electric grid and supporting the growing demands of our communities,” said Aaron Balch, manager of engineering support. The investment will be used to replace aging infrastructure with more modernized equipment and decommission a 90-y
DTE Foundation awards $30,000 Industrial Sewing and Innovation Center to help create opportunity, good-paying jobs for Detroiters Detroit’s history is often tied to cars, but today there’s a new industry revving up in this iconic global manufacturing hub: fashion. The Industrial Sewing and Innovation Center (ISAIC) is creating a new apparel manufacturing model designed to encourage domestic production, create new career paths for underserved Detroiters and assist in attracting major fashion brands to the region. The DTE Energy Foundation proudly stands beside ISAIC in support of this transformative effort. The DTE Foundation became an early supporter of ISAIC’s talent force development with a $30,000 grant to support skills development and apprenticeship at the ISAIC learning and contract manufacturing factory in midtown. This partnership is blazing a path to a good-paying jobs with benefits for people often unaware of – or not able to attain – careers in advanced manufacturing.
Jonesfield Township celebrates DTE Appreciation Day -On Saturday, Oct. 24, the Jonesfield Township community gathered for a day of Halloween and Homecoming festivities and recognition of DTE Energy. The morning began with a parade where Matt Wagner, Manager of Renewable Energy Development, served as Grand Marshal. Community members enjoyed several DTE sponsored events, such as Trunk or Treat, pumpkin carving, a costume closet, and the homecoming tailgate, all leading up to Merrill High School’s homecoming football game that afternoon. Since 2018, we have played an instrumental role in supporting several local events such as Farm Fest, Senior Thanksgiving Dinner and Christmas in the Village. Our extensive civic efforts in this community, led by Site Manager Jason Hannath, parallels our partnership with local landowners through the pending development of Meridian Wind Park which is scheduled to come online by the end of 2021. “Everywhere [DTE] goes, they end up being such a great corporate neighbor and a great friend of the people of the community,” said Senator Ken Horn.
At DTE, people are the center of our business. We start first with our 10,000 employees working to serve customers and communities with affordable, reliable and clean energy. And we know that if each of us is healthy and well, we will be able to give our best personal energy to our work, our families and our communities. That's why we have embarked on a journey to become the healthiest and most well-being-supportive organization. For years we have had a laser focus on safety, which allowed us to make tremendous strides in our Safety journey. We are now widening the lens to focus on Health & Well-being with the same rigor, vigor and instrumentation. Caring for employees' well-being is a natural extension of our focus on keeping employees safe. Working together, we will achieve our goals through integrated, best-in-class programs spanning all four areas of total well-being: physical health, emotional wellness, social connectivity and financial fitness. We will support all employees regardless of where they are along their health and well-being journey.
As a part of our company's commitment to diversity and inclusion, we again partnered with organizations such as Consumers Energy, General Motors (GM) and Quicken Loans, to recognize Women of Color in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines. We proudly submitted nominations for sixteen deserving women of color and in August, our 2020 nominees learned of their awards. We applaud and celebrate this year's group of innovative and dynamic Women of Color and their honors!
The DTE Foundation is supporting communities where DTE has a Gas Storage and Pipeline presence in addition to our robust efforts in Michigan.
