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‘12 months of inconvenience’: DTE forces thousands to pay power bills only in cash - MLive.com

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‘12 months of inconvenience’: DTE forces thousands to pay power bills only in cash - mlive.com

DETROIT, MI - Michigan’s largest electric utility offers a half-dozen ways to pay a power bill, from dialing up a hotline to flipping open an app on a smartphone.

But for a subset of its customers, DTE Energy demands only cold, hard cash.

DTE Energy on the scene on Washington Street in downtown Ann Arbor on Feb. 13, 2024. (Ryan Stanton | MLive.com)Ryan Stanton | The Ann Arbor News

DETROIT, MI - Michigan’s largest electric utility offers a half-dozen ways to pay a power bill, from dialing up a hotline to flipping open an app on a smartphone.

But for a subset of its customers, DTE Energy demands only cold, hard cash.

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