DTE electric shut-offs for nonpayment remain near record highs

DTE repeatedly hiked rates over the past decade; average residential rates are 53% higher now than in 2016

A yellow bar chart shows DTE Energy residential shut-offs from 2018-25 have risen, from about 150,000 in 2018 to nearly 214,000 in 2025. Shut-offs dropped to around 81,000 in 2020 due to a three-month shut-off moratorium that DTE enacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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DTE suspended shut-offs for older adults and low-income households for three months in 2020.

Chart: Elinor Epperson for Outlier MediaSource: Michigan Public Service CommissionGet the dataCreated with Datawrapper