DTE Energy 2Q: Coal Exit by 2032 Means New Gas Plant and M-U Demand
DTE Energy reported second quarter 2026 results yesterday, and before we dig in, one piece of housekeeping. DTE used to be an M-U player in a big way — it owned gathering systems in the Marcellus and Utica plus half of the NEXUS pipeline. That business walked out the door on July 1, 2021, when DTE spun it off as DT Midstream (see DT Midstream Plans to Expand Organically, Decarbonize). So when you see “DTE” attached to Appalachian midstream news, that’s DTM, not DTE. What’s left at DTE Energy is a Michigan utility: DTE Electric (2.3 million customers in southeast Michigan) and DTE Gas (1.4 million customers statewide), plus a non-utility arm called DTE Vantage that does renewable natural gas (RNG) and custom energy projects. So why should MDN readers care? Two words: demand and pipe. Read More “DTE Energy 2Q: Coal Exit by 2032 Means New Gas Plant and M-U Demand”
In August 2018 DTE Energy broke ground on a new state-of-the-art natural gas-fired power plant in St. Clair County, Michigan (see 
Nearly 20 years ago Indeck Energy floated a plan to build an electric generating plant (powered by natural gas) in Niles, Michigan, not far from Chicago. In 2016 those plans got serious (see 
Consumers Energy, Michigan’s second-largest power provider, will quit burning coal to produce electricity by 2025 and instead will purchase four existing natural gas-fired power plants for $1.3 billion. At least if the company can get approval from state regulators. The company says buying existing gas-fired plants (instead of building new plants) will help it transition to carbonless energy over the next 20 years. Buying instead of building means the company won’t have “stranded assets” when (we say if) they eventually foreswear using fossil fuels to generate electricity.
In late 2018 the final two segments of the already-operational Rover Pipeline went online, making the project 100% complete (see 
You may recall MDN covering the story of the compressor station in Michigan that caught fire and exploded in January (see 
One of the arguments often heard from those who oppose natural gas pipelines is that “nobody” benefits from the pipeline except the sleazy Big Corporation that builds and profits from it. A single pipeline running through Ohio and Michigan puts that lie to rest. Rover Pipeline, built and operated by Energy Transfer, paid out some $73 million in local property taxes in 2018 when the pipeline first began operation. For 2019, with the full pipeline operating at 100% capacity for the entire year, Rover says they will pay out ~$180 million in property taxes! Taxes that fund schools, roads, first responders and other worthy causes.
In October 2016, Indeck Energy announced a plan to build a $1 billion electric generating plant (powered by natural gas) in Niles, Michigan, not far from Chicago (see 
Last week a pipeline at a single Michigan compressor station caught fire and exploded (see 
At the end of July NEXUS Pipeline was 80% complete and made big boasts that it would be ready to flow during the third quarter of this year (see