This is one of the two annual cases that set what a typical DTE household bill looks like; the approved increase was about 58 percent smaller than DTE requested.
+$5a month
2027 electric rate case
Pending Base rate case, docket U-22046 before the Michigan Public Service Commission.
+$12a month, estimate
on a typical bill, if approved as asked
9.7% of the average Michigan bill of $119 (EIA, 2024); your own bill scales with your usage. Our arithmetic, not the utility's figure; the methodology page shows how.
Fileddate not published
Hearingnot scheduled yet
Decisionpending
On billsafter the decision
DTE Electric filed a new rate case in 2026 asking for a 474.3 million dollar increase, about 9.7 percent more from residential customers, for a period starting March 2027. DTE separately offered to pause future rate hike requests for two years if this case gets a constructive outcome and its Saline Township data center opens on time, an offer Attorney General Dana Nessel called a ransom note that ties ordinary ratepayer relief to data center approvals. The case is still pending with no decision yet.
What it means for your bill: If approved as filed, this would be a bigger increase than the 4.1 percent DTE got approved just months earlier in its last case.
- Status
- Pending
- Utility
- DTE Electric
- Commission
- Michigan Public Service Commission
- Docket
- U-22046
- Requested
- 9.7% residential
- Data center linked
- Yes. The filing ties part of the cost or the tariff design to data center load.
- Last checked
- August 29, 2026
How to comment
The Michigan Public Service Commission accepts written comments on the docket while the case is open, and holds public hearings on major cases. Commission site. Michigan Attorney General represents households in this case.
Sources
- DTE offers 2-year rate hike freeze if Saline data center opens on time: Nessel calls it 'ransom note', Planet Detroit, 2026-04-29
- Rate Cases, Citizens Utility Board of Michigan
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The order is meant to keep this one data center's power costs off the bills of regular DTE residential customers, but critics argue the fast, largely ex parte approval process did not fully test that promise.
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This does not change anyone's electric bill by itself; it is a state sales tax break for data center owners, separate from the MPSC cases that set how those same data centers pay for electricity. It applies statewide, regardless of which utility serves the site.
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