Edison Foundation
Jonathan Hirte is Director of Federal Affairs at DTE Energy .
More than a dozen thought leaders and decision makers took the stage at the Edison Foundation's Institute for Electric Innovation's 13th annual Powering the People event in Washington D.C. Enjoy these excerpts.
Jonathan Hirte: We are an electric provider in southeast Michigan that includes metro Detroit. We also do gas delivery throughout the state, including some rural counties in northern Michigan.
When you look at our customer base, about thirty percent of our customers are at two hundred percent of FPL or below. So, we have a large universe of customers that at some point may need energy assistance to help them meet that energy burden and maintain bill affordability.