Ann Arbor’s Push To Break Away From DTE Raises Billion-Dollar Questions About Public Power Future

Ann Arbor’s Push To Break Away From DTE Raises Billion-Dollar Questions About Public Power Future

ANN ARBOR — Ann Arbor’s push to create an alternative energy system outside the traditional DTE Energy model is accelerating, raising new questions about whether the city could eventually become one of the first major Michigan communities to partially — or even fully — break away from the state’s dominant investor-owned utility structure. The latest step came this week when Ann Arbor finalized a flat $600 yearly rate for participants in its new …