DTE Energy says 7,000 homes and businesses are still without power after last week’s wind storm knocked out electricity to more than 800,000 customers.
The company has restored power to 793,000 customers impacted by the wind storm.
DTE’s written statement says:
DTE’s biggest challenge today continues to be the number of jobs with extensive damage. Our restoration process begins by isolating damage to restore as many customers as possible, and then returning to fix the real damage and small pockets of customers.
“Regretfully, the snow and icy road conditions, coupled with complicated and time-consuming repairs, impeded restoration efforts on Monday,” DTE said.