Advancing as We Reset. That’s what the city of Ann Arbor is calling proposed plans to move away from using DTE as an electric utility and invest in it own public power utility.

City Administrator Milton Dohoney says they need more information on feasibility of such a move. So, the city council has opted to allocate money in the 2025 budget to fund another study.

“It’s been talked about previously, it’s been debated, it’s been advocated for,” Donohey said. “The consultants that we hire advise that it’ll cost us a million dollars. We are proposing with this budget to spend a million dollars to do the study, and then decisions can be made on the direction that the policy makers want us to move in.”

The phase two study will get an appraisal of DTE’s assets.

The phase one study in 2023 estimated a public power utility could cost more than $1 billion.