Nearly 200K DTE customers remain without power

Published: Aug 27, 2024 Duration: 00:04:50 Category: News & Politics

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GOING TO BE OUT ON THIS STORY ALL AFTERNOON LONG. THANKS SO MUCH. WE'LL SEE YOU A LITTLE BIT LATER ON TODAY. YEAH. IT'S THE OUTAGES THAT ARE REALLY TOUGH FOR PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY WITH THE HUMIDITY AS WELL. DTE JUST GAVE US AN UPDATE JUST A SHORT TIME AGO. THEY HAVE OVER 1000 CREWS FROM OUT OF STATE THAT ARE HERE TO HELP. SO GO AHEAD AND TAKE A LISTEN TO BRIAN KALKA. HE'S THE VICE PRESIDENT OF DISTRIBUTION OPERATIONS FOR DTE. >> YESTERDAY EVENING WE HAD SEVERE WEATHER HIT SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN. THAT WEATHER BROUGHT WITH IT 70 MILE AN HOUR PLUS WINDS. IN FACT, WE DID SEE A REPORTED WIND GUST OF 76 MILES AN HOUR AT METRO AIRPORT, WHICH WE HAVEN'T SEEN HERE FROM A STRAIGHT LINE WIND STANDPOINT YEARS. THAT WEATHER DID GENERATE AROUND 300,000 CUSTOMER OUTAGES ACROSS OUR ENTIRE SYSTEM. SO THE DAMAGE WAS RATHER WIDESPREAD. WE HAD A NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS WORKING THROUGH THE EVENING LAST NIGHT, AND WE HAVE PEOPLE WORKING THIS MORNING, THUS FAR WE'VE RESTORED ABOUT 120,000 OF THOSE OF THOSE CUSTOMERS WHO WERE IMPACTED. SO ABOUT 37, 38% THUS FAR FROM A RESTORATION RATE STANDPOINT, AS WE LOOK FORWARD TO TODAY AND THEN TOMORROW, OUR GOALS ARE TO RESTORE 75% OF THOSE CUSTOMERS WHO WERE AFFECTED BY THE END OF THE DAY TODAY, AND THAT NUMBER WILL MOVE TO 90% BY THE END OF THE DAY TOMORROW. AND THE BALANCE OF THOSE REMAINING CUSTOMERS WOULD BE RESTORED BY FRIDAY. SO WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT RESOURCING AN EVENT LIKE THIS, THIS IS REALLY AN ALL HANDS ON DECK APPROACH. AT DTE, WE HAVE INDIVIDUALS FROM OUR CORPORATE STAFF FUNCTIONS, FINANCE, LEGAL, COMMUNICATIONS. EVERYONE IS REALLY ALIGNING ON SUPPORTING OUR CUSTOMERS DURING THIS RATHER CHALLENGING TIME. WE'VE ALSO REACHED OUT TO A NUMBER OF OUR UTILITY PARTNERS ACROSS THE MIDWEST AND WE HAVE OVER 400 CREWS, ABOUT 1200 1300 INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE HERE ON PROPERTY NOW. THEY'VE COME FROM AS FAR AWAY AS WISCONSIN, TENNESSEE, NEW YORK, SOME OF THE OTHER MIDWEST STATES AS WELL. SO THIS REALLY IS AN ALL HANDS ON DECK APPROACH TO REMOVE SOME OF THE HAZARDS TO THE PUBLIC, BUT ALSO TO RESTORE OUR CUSTOMERS IN A TIMELY, TIMELY MANNER. WE DO RECOGNIZE AS WELL THIS WEATHER EVENT DID CAUSE A NUMBER OF SCHOOL OUTAGES. WE HAVE UPWARDS OF 350 SCHOOLS IN OUR SERVICE TERRITORY THAT ARE WITHOUT POWER. SO WE DO RECOGNIZE THAT WHILE PEOPLE AT THEIR INDIVIDUAL HOME MIGHT HAVE POWER, THE FACT THAT SCHOOLS MIGHT NOT HAVE POWER DOES CREATE CHALLENGES FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS. AS I SIT HERE NOW, THE THING I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE IS ALIGNED AROUND IS SAFETY. THAT IS OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY. AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, A WEATHER EVENT OF THIS MAGNITUDE DOES BRING DOWN POWER LINES ACROSS OUR SERVICE TERRITORY. SO A COUPLE OF RULES OF THUMB THAT WE LIKE TO COMMUNICATE. IF YOU CAN STAY INDOORS, PLEASE DO SO YOURSELF, YOUR CHILDREN, YOUR PETS. PLEASE STAY INDOORS IF AT ALL POSSIBLE. IF YOU DO HAVE TO VENTURE OUTSIDE AND YOU COME ACROSS CAUTION TAPE, PLEASE HEED THE WARNING OF THE CAUTION TAPE ITSELF. IT IS TRE TO IDENTIFY A DOWNED POWER LINE. PLEASE DO NOT CROSS THE CAUTION TAPE ITSELF. IF YOU SEE A POWER LINE WHEN YOU'RE OUTSIDE, PLEASE STAY AT LEAST 25FT AWAY FROM IT. AND IF THE POWER LINE IS IN CONTACT WITH A FENCE OR SOME OTHER OBJECT, DO NOT IN ANY WAY TOUCH THAT OBJECT BECAUSE IT COULD BE CARRYING SOME OF THAT ELECTRICITY. ONE OF THE BIG CHALLENGES WE'RE SEEING IS IN SOME STORMS, YOU WILL HAVE A VERY LOCALIZED AREA THAT LOSES POWER, SO YOU CAN FLOOD IT WITH RESOURCES IN A VERY TIGHT GEOGRAPHIC FOOTPRINT. THIS STORM IS NOT THAT WE HAVE DEVASTATION. THE TIP OF THE THUMB DOWN ALMOST TO THE OHIO BORDER. SO WE HAVE INDIVIDUALS AND RESOURCES SCATTERED ALL OVER THE TERRITORY TO HELP RESTORE POWER, WHICH BRINGS A LITTLE BIT OF CHALLENGE WITH IT. I WOULD ALSO SAY WITH THE WIND SPEED THAT WE HAD, THE DAMAGE IS SIGNIFICANT. THIS IS NOT NECESSARILY LIFTING A LIMB OFF OF A LINE AND RESTORING POWER. YOU'VE GOT BROKEN POLES, YOU HAVE BROKEN INFRASTRUCTURE. REPLACING THAT INFRASTRUCTURE CAN TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME, AND THAT WILL BE A CHALLENGE AS WELL. >> SO AGAIN, THEY'RE HOPING FOR THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE TO BE BACK ONLINE BY THURSDAY AFTERNOON, WITH THE LAST REMAINING BY FRIDAY. AND I KNOW

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