Work For Me, DTE!

Tell the Michigan Public Service Commission to make DTE work for us!

The Work For Me, DTE! campaign is working for health, affordability, and democracy in Detroit and throughout southeast Michigan.

The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) is supposed to be our watchdog making sure DTE treats us ratepayers fairly. The MPSC is currently considering DTE's Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). DTE's IRP is how they plan to spend your money over the next 15 years, shaping the future of our communities. Their plan right now is to spend your money building giant fracked gas plants and pipelines, making ...

Tell the Michigan Public Service Commission to make DTE work for us!

The Work For Me, DTE! campaign is working for health, affordability, and democracy in Detroit and throughout southeast Michigan.

The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) is supposed to be our watchdog making sure DTE treats us ratepayers fairly. The MPSC is currently considering DTE's Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). DTE's IRP is how they plan to spend your money over the next 15 years, shaping the future of our communities. Their plan right now is to spend your money building giant fracked gas plants and pipelines, making massive profits for their shareholders and leaving our communities sick, underserved, and overcharged.

We can change that.

We are calling on the Michigan Public Service Commission to put community welfare over corporate profits. The IRP should promote affordability, health, community ownership, and good jobs in our communities through local clean energy like rooftop solar, accessible weatherization and energy efficiency, and equitable infrastructure upgrades.

Make your voice HEARD!

Resources:

Background: Check out these blog posts from Natural Resources Defense Council for background on the Michigan Public Service Commission and Integrated Resource Planning.
DTE's 15-year Plan: To learn more read this blog from NRDC on DTE's IRP and the impact it will have for our communities.
Jobs: Read the report from Power Up MI showing that wind and solar create far more jobs than new gas plants.
Public Comment: Read this deep-dive report from Planet Detroit on the MPSC public hearing and well-researched background on the comments given.
Comparing DTE to their peers: Read some report and resources on how DTE stacks up to Consumers Energy, Indiana Utilities, Green Mountain Power in Vermont (which reformed as a B Corporation), and community-based Peoples' Power Plan in Kentucky.

The following organizations are part of the Work For Me, DTE campaign. To add your organization, email [email protected].

East Michigan Environmental Action Council, Engage Michigan, Ecology Center, Meta Peace Team / MCHR, Good Jobs Now, MI Citizens For Conservation, Coalition To Oppose US Ecology, WACO, D2SOLAR, Sierra Club, MI Interfaith Power & Light, Good Jobs Now, Soulardarity, Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition, Citizen's Resistance Against Fermi Two, We Want Green Too!, We The People Detroit, Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit

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BREAKING: The ALJ supports our call for rejection! And we blew past our goal of 2000 comments - let's stretch up to 3000 and keep the pressure on the commission to make the right call!

DTE’s 15-year plan for our energy, called the IRP, is dangerous and unjust. Email the Michigan Public Service Commission and tell them to REJECT DTE's IRP, and send them back to the drawing board to make a plan that centers health, affordability, and democracy for our communities.

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Dear Michigan Public Service Commissioners,

I am writing to urge you to reject DTE's Integrated Resource Plan proposal, and instead promote health, affordability, and democracy in our communities.

DTE has shown consistently that it creates UNSAFE plans and practices — from downed power lines left exposed in Detroit to raising costs for all residential customers, and especially low-income communities of color, DTE is looking out for it’s money before any concern for people. That’s why it’s your job to hold them accountable.

You need to reject their plan because building gas plants will not make us safer, it will make money for DTE on their pipelines at the expense of the ecosystem, the people who live on the lands disrupted by gas pipelines and ultimately everyone affected by climate change. We need more rooftop solar that is controlled by the community and DTE is getting in the way of that. DTE needs to invest in green energy, which creates more jobs than a gas plant does, and also makes more sense economically because gas plants will be obsolete in a matter of years.

We need a plan that makes rooftop solar more affordable, that puts more affordable energy in the hands of the people and helps prevent shutoffs. We need a plan that uses less methane gas to help stop global warming. We need a plan that centers health, affordability, and democracy in our communities.

Thank you.

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