Dangerous situations: For everyone’s safety, we start with downed power lines and other hazards. You may see our employees standing guard near yellow barrier tape and areas blocked off to avoid public contact with a downed power line.Critical health, safety and communication facilities: We repair power lines and equipment serving facilities like hospitals, police and fire stations, nursing-care facilities, radio and television stations and sanitary-pumping stations.Communities: We focus on getting the most customers restored promptly. We begin by repairing substation equipment that delivers power to entire communities.Large subdivisions, neighborhoods and businesses: We move on to distribution lines that serve large subdivisions, neighborhood circuits and businesses.Individual homes: We then focus on fixing equipment that powers individual homes., 99.92 % With Power2,271,748 Power On, DTE Energy currently has the 14th most power outages of any utility and the 68th highest ratio of customers out. Of the 15 counties served by the utility, Livingston County, Michigan currently has the most outages, at 923 customers without power. For a full county list see below..