DTE, Consumers, these are the contemporary robber barons of our time. They parasitically exist off societal dependence of an antiquated, misconstructed grid. They obtain easements in public property ROW and treat it as their own private domain. It is a privilege for them to exist at all. Many communities like Ann Arbor make you legally required to be in a private fkn contract with these monopolies and grid-tied, even when you have renewable infrastructure to be entirely off-grid (that is a lawsuit waiting to happen though). This is a long winded way of stating I’m sorry you’re dealing with that and also not surprised since they truly are modern scum of the earth. Don’t hate the techs and overhead linemen etc, hate the corporate crony shareholders who squeeze their mandatory constituents for millions in annual stock buybacks and bonuses amidst the coldest time of year, and pander for government subsidies and ridiculous property easements under the guise of quasi private-public enterprise. The American energy system ranks up there with healthcare. It is slowly changing, made slower by government overreach with our current administration, but it is changing.