Impacts on your monthly bill

Learn how to manage the impact weather can have on the amount of energy your business uses, how billing cycles affect your energy bill and how rates are determined. You’ll also find insightful information that will help you:

• Better understand your bill
• Learn more about payment options
• Manage your account
• Save money by reducing energy usage and waste

Managing in any weather

When temperatures rise and your use of air conditioning increases, your actions for energy efficiency can make a big difference. Managing temperature settings on and off-business hours with a programmable thermostat can result in significant savings. In fact, if you adjust your thermostat 7° to 10° from your normal settings for eight hours each day—regardless of the season—you can save as much as 10% on energy costs over the course of a year!

How "Days Billed" affects your monthly payment

Since billing cycles can range from 26 to 35 days, comparing one month’s bill to another may not help you fully understand your electric usage. For a convenient way to evaluate your bills, check out our Energy Usage feature. We also offer helpful payment programs such as Flexible Due Date, which allows you to schedule the due date of your monthly energy bill.

Saving money starts with saving energy

We offer a variety of energy efficiency resources for businesses. Tips for All Businesses includes energy-saving actions for specific kinds of operations as well as any business committed to reducing energy use and costs. Ways to Save features Tools to Improve Your Bottom Line. The free Business Energy Advisor portal helps you filter information based on types of businesses and technologies. For longer-term savings and investments, please review our business Incentive Programs.

How your rates are determined

Your bill reflects the total amount of energy used (kWh), measured by a meter reading at the end of each of your billing cycles. The rates you pay are set by the Michigan Public Service Commission—an independent third party that conducts a public process known as a regulatory rate review. To learn about this process, watch this short video and visit electric rate information in the Quick Links section.

Keeping your electricity affordable, efficient and reliable

Electric Pricing Factors: The price you pay for electricity helps us deliver the energy your business counts on, including costs for building, operating and maintaining our power plants and distribution system.

Efficient Energy Sources: DTE generates energy through the most affordable and reliable sources, such as low-sulfur coal, natural gas, renewable resources and nuclear power.

Maintaining the Energy Grid: You can learn more about the significant investments we’ve made to our electric system by checking out our Electric Enhancements.