Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The rate increase request comes about four months after the MPSC approved a $368.1 million electricity rate increase for DTE in December.

"I would have to turn my heat up to 90 to have a nice warm house," Primus said. "I can’t get the medicine because I have to pay a bill." But Primus enrolled in the DTE Energy Efficiency ...

The less-likely issue with your higher bill is that it’s being estimated. This happens when a DTE meter reader is unable to contact you to read your meter. DTE will bill you an estimate ...

However, those are pass-through costs that can rise and fall periodically based on the costs DTE is required to pay. "DTE Energy is continuously improving our operations and driving down costs to ...