The February 2023 ice storm decimated the already under-invested in infrastructure of DTE’s electric grid. Over 620,000 customers were impacted across Southeast Michigan and many still today have not had their power restored after 7 days of no power. Eric Lau of Michigan Daily created this timeline map of DTE outage data from their outage map’s API, Kubra Storm Center. In the last year DTE generated over $1 billion in profits and announced postponed maintenance in 2023 to it’s shareholders the same day that the ice storm hit.