The Detroit Automobile Company ( DAC ) was an early American automobile manufacturer founded on August 5, 1899, in Detroit , Michigan. It was the first venture of its kind in Detroit. Automotive mechanic Henry Ford attracted the financial backing of twelve investors; Detroit Mayor William Maybury , William H. Murphy and others. As with many early car ventures, the company floundered, and it was dissolved in January 1901. Twenty vehicles were built and $ 86,000 ($ 2.61 million in 2019) of investment was lost.
23-645: The company was founded with a paid-up capital of $ 15,000 ($ 455,490 in 2019). Henry Ford managed the manufacturing plant at 1343 Cass Avenue and Amsterdam in Detroit; initially with no pay until he left his job at the Detroit Edison Company , after which he was given a monthly salary of $ 150 ($ 4,555 in 2019). He refused to put a car into production until he had perfected it to his satisfaction, infuriating investors who quickly began to lose confidence in Ford's ability to bring
46-478: A condition of electric utility deregulation in Michigan, DTE Energy was forced to sell off Detroit Edison's sister subsidiary involved in high-voltage energy transmission: International Transmission Co. (ITC). Detroit Edison's near 11-gigawatt generating capacity is offered to its 7,600-square-mile (20,000 km ) service area, which encompasses 13 counties in the southeastern portion of the lower peninsula . Energy
69-441: A natural gas plant in 2026 (originally 2028). The Belle River gas conversion project is expected to extend the life of the plant by at least 13 more years. The Greenwood Energy Center near Avoca, Michigan serves as a peaking power plant for the utility, generating over 815mW when at full capacity. A turbine replacement project in 2024 is expected to add another 25 years of useful life to the plant, with no current plans to retire
92-565: A product to market. The company's primary objective was to make a profit for its investors, who had seen the Oldsmobile plant, where the Curved Dash Oldsmobile was built, which was profitable for its owner Samuel Smith. The company's first product was a gasoline-powered delivery truck engineered by Ford and completed in January 1900. It received favorable coverage in a local newspaper, but
115-589: Is distributed via one million utility poles and 44,000 miles (71,000 km) of power lines in these Michigan counties: Huron, Tuscola, Sanilac, Saint Clair, Lapeer, Livingston, Ingham, Oakland, Macomb, Wayne, Washtenaw, Lenawee, and Monroe. Detroit Edison's distribution line voltages are three-phase 4,800 volts (Delta) 4,800/8,320 volts (wye) and 7,620/13,200 volts (Wye) . All new distribution circuits constructed after 1959 are 13,200 volts. The 8,320 volt distribution lines are located in Pontiac, Michigan in an area that
138-616: The Fort Bend Power Producers, LLC facility outside of Rosenberg, Texas and the Seabreaze landfill gas development in Angleton, Texas, which has yet to be developed. After these projects are operational, the company will have five "landfill conversion facilities which capture and convert dangerous landfill gases to pipeline-quality renewable natural gas". The gases will go to fueling transit buses. In 2024, DTE Energy announced that it
161-677: The Greenwood Energy Center site near Avoca, but were never completed. Since 2009, DTE has driven investment of $ 2.8 billion in renewable energy assets, increasing to $ 4.8 billion by 2024. Since April 2021, DTE Electric operates 18 wind and 31 solar parks, totaling 1,760 megawatts of clean energy, powering 670,000 homes. DTE currently has 18 operational wind parks in their portfolio. As the state's largest investor in and producer of wind energy, DTE produces enough energy from renewable sources to power more than 500,000 homes. DTE currently operates 31 solar parks in Michigan. In May 2016,
184-504: The New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol DTE through the mid-1990s. In early 1996, it became an operating subsidiary of the new holding company, DTE Energy Company , which replaced Detroit Edison Company on the stock exchange, and took over the trading ticker symbol. Current operating DTE Energy's coal and natural gas power plants: Units 1 & 2: 2032 Unit 2: 2026 (gas conversion) In 2016, DTE Energy announced
207-441: The bankruptcy of Penn Central left Detroit Edison short of motive power and under capacitated coal hoppers. Detroit Edison then chose to purchase brand new locomotives and coal cars to fit their needs. Purchasing EMD SD40 's and GE U30C 's for mainline motive power as well as High-Side Articulated Gondolas (with a capacity of 185,000 pounds), this new equipment allowed Detroit Edison to move more coal en masse than what Penn Central
230-940: The company broke ground on a solar array project in Lapeer, Michigan touted as the largest utility-owned solar array east of the Mississippi River. Lapeer Solar Park generates enough electricity to power 9,000 homes. DTE Energy also operates a 10-acre solar installation in Detroit on the site of the abandoned O'Shea Park. DTE and Consumers Energy co-own the Ludington Pumped Storage Plant on Lake Michigan in Mason County, Michigan . In May 2017, DTE Energy announced it had acquired "two landfill-based gas-to-energy operations" in Texas. The company wants to expand its operations to alternative vehicle fuel. The operations it acquired were
253-607: The eleventh largest electric plant in the United States. The Monroe Power Plant connects to the power grid by numerous 120,000- and 345,000-volt transmission lines , owned and maintained by ITC Transmission . Two of the 345 kV lines going out of the plant interconnect with FirstEnergy in Ohio (Bayshore-Monroe line and the Majestic-Monroe-Allen Junction Line). In its 2022 Integrated Resource Plan, DTE sped up
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#1732845458392276-573: The facility. In 2018, the Michigan Public Service Commission approved Blue Water Energy Center, a natural gas combined-cycle plan. This will replace three retiring coal plants, reducing carbon emissions by 70 percent, and provide power to 850,000 homes. Blue Water Energy Center began commercial operation on June 6, 2022. DTE currently operates one nuclear plant, Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station , generating 21% of DTE Electric's power. Two nuclear reactors were planned for
299-513: The retirement of three coal-fired generating units among its plants by 2023. The plants are located in River Rouge , St. Clair in East China Township and Trenton . In sum, the plants power around 900,000 homes. The Detroit Free Press wrote that employees at the closing plants will be able to transfer to other facilities and will not lose their jobs. River Rouge Power Plant's retirement
322-559: The timeline for retirement from the previous date of 2040. The plant is scheduled to close two of its units in 2028. The remaining two units are planned to close by 2032, moved up from 2035 in 2023. No plans are in place as of yet to replace the 3,400 megawatts that this plant generates. The Monroe Power Plant did significant upgrades and maintenance at the facility in late 2007 and 2008. Flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) units, or sulfur-oxide "scrubbers", are in operation on all four of Monroe's generating units. These devices reduce over 95% of
345-501: The western shore of Lake Erie . It is owned by the DTE Energy Electric Company , a subsidiary of DTE Energy . The plant was constructed in the early 1970s and began operating in 1971. The plant has 4 generating units, each with an output of 850 megawatts. With all four generating units operating, the plant's total output is 3,300 megawatts (3,400 MW total, with 100 MW required for the plant machinery to run). This makes it
368-483: Was able to do with their equipment. The trains were maintained by Detroit Edison officials but operated by Penn Central crews. By the late 1980s or early 1990, Detroit Edison discontinued use of their equipment, as Conrail began to supply enough locomotives and rolling stock to meet the power company's needs. Monroe Power Plant The Monroe Power Plant is a coal-fired power plant located in Monroe, Michigan , on
391-422: Was expedited to 2021 with its last megawatt produced on May 31, 2021, and formally retired on June 4, 2021. Trenton Channel Power Plant and St. Clair Power Plant retired in 2022, replaced by renewable energy projects. It was announced on December 8, 2022, that Monroe Power Plant will retire units 3 and 4 in 2028 and units 1 and 2 in 2032 (originally 2042). Belle River Power Plant will be repurposed to become
414-444: Was founded in 1886. DTE Electric's power generation portfolio includes renewable energy , but is primarily generated by fossil fuels . In 2022, 68.58% of electricity generated by DTE came from coal, gas, and oil. The regional average fossil fuel mix was 65.82%. As of 2022, DTE's emission levels of Carbon Dioxide, Sulfur Dioxide, Nitrogen Oxides are higher than the regional averages, but lower High-Level Nuclear Waste. Detroit Edison
437-436: Was not without its flaws; it was slow, heavy, unreliable and complicated to manufacture. Later in life, Ford recalled this period as one that was driven by profit rather than innovation. A catalog produced by Detroit Automobile Company in 1900 showed, with a cost analysis, that the automobile was cheaper to maintain and operate than a horse and vehicle. Little is known about the company's designs. The Detroit Automobile Company
460-602: Was part of a large holding company called North American Edison Company . North American's stock had once been one of the twelve component stocks of the May 1896 original Dow Jones Industrial Average . North American Company was broken up by the Securities and Exchange Commission , following the United States Supreme Court decision of April 1, 1946. After that, Detroit Edison operated independently, and publicly traded on
483-829: Was reorganized into the Henry Ford Company on November 20, 1901, after Ford gained further backing from investors because of his racing success. It later became the Cadillac Company under the ownership of Henry Leland , who came in subsequently after Ford had left. The factory location for the Detroit Automobile Company is less than a mile away southeast from Mr. Ford's Piquette Avenue Plant , which opened four years later. 42°21′57″N 83°04′25″W / 42.365766°N 83.073593°W / 42.365766; -83.073593 Detroit Edison DTE Electric Company (formerly The Detroit Edison Company )
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#1732845458392506-590: Was served by Consumers Power Company until the mid-1980s when the area was acquired by Detroit Edison. Edison's subtransmission line voltages are 24,000 volts and 41,600 volts. With the bankruptcy of the Penn Central Transportation railroad in 1970, Detroit Edison sought to continue transporting coal from the Monongahela mines in Pennsylvania to a brand new power plant in Monroe, Michigan . However,
529-514: Was transforming the land formerly occupied by the Trenton Channel Power Plant into a 220 MW battery energy storage center. In July 2018, DTE Energy filed a proposal to invest $ 13 million into an electric car charging program. The program would upgrade transformers and also include service drops, materials, hardware, new meters and other costs. The program is called Charging Forward program and would also provide consumers rebates. As
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