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UNITED STATES

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Letter to Shareholders

We invite you to attend our company’s annual meeting of shareholders, which will be held on Thursday, May 2, 2024. Please see page 66 for details regarding attendance.

Fellow Shareholders,

We invite you to attend our company’s annual meeting of shareholders, which will be held in a virtual-only format on Thursday, May 2, 2024. Please see page 66 for details regarding attendance.

In 2023, as our company continued to fundamentally transform the way we generate and deliver cleaner, more reliable and affordable energy for our customers, our team of 10,000 employees leaned on our purpose: to improve people’s lives with our energy. We worked collaboratively with diverse external stakeholders to accelerate our long-term plans, learned new ways to provide better service to our customers, and finished the year a more innovative company than ever before.

While we managed a historic ice storm, tornadoes and other unique challenges, our team members stayed focused, maintaining our position in the top six percent of companies for employee engagement. Our team also successfully implemented our new Safety Energy Model to help us recognize and control high-energy hazards in our workspaces and formed two additional safety councils to protect our team members and the public.

We invested a record $1 billion to modernize our electric infrastructure and improve the reliability of our grid. With the support of thousands of team members across the company, we reduced our average storm restoration response time by 20 percent and had a record number of team members serve in public protection roles to keep people safe during last summer’s catastrophic storms.

Our Gas team replaced more than 200 miles of cast-iron pipes with more durable materials to ensure the continued delivery of safe and reliable natural gas to our 1.3 million DTE Gas customers. We also completed several major projects across Michigan to strengthen our gas system and enable us to add nearly 9,000 new customers. Our Home Protection Plus program continued to grow, delivering valuable services to more than 225,000 customers.

Our Vantage team helped our company thrive by partnering with Ford Motor Company to build, own and operate a central utility plant in Tennessee for Ford’s future – a six-square-mile manufacturing facility for the F-150 Lightning. Vantage began operating the plant in January 2024 and significantly expanded its partnership with Ford, contributing to our future growth.

In 2023, our dedicated team members made tremendous progress improving our service and executing long-term plans that will transform our company for continued growth and success in 2024 and beyond. We thank you for your continued partnership and valued investment in DTE.


Gerardo Norcia Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Mark A. Murray Lead Independent Director

2024 Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders and Proxy Statement

We invite you to attend the annual meeting of DTE Energy Company, which will be held in a virtual-only format. See page 66 for details on how to attend.



MEETING DATE	TIME	LOCATION
Thursday, May 2, 2024	8:00 a.m. (EDT)	Virtual Only


Matters of Business			Board's Voting Recommendation			See Page

SEC Form DEF 14A filed by DTE Energy Company