DTE has a suite of programs where customers can voluntarily give them even more money. ⚠️60-80% of the money customers spend goes straight to DTE profit ⚠️ 🌲 TreeGuard Assurance - if DTE doesn't trim your trees like they're supposed to, you can pay a premium to have them clean up after an outage ⚡ Surge Protection Plans - DTE offers a range of plans to protect your electronics and appliances from surges, costing customers between $5.99 and $22.99 per month - or buy a power strip... 💵 GreenBacks Cash - pay DTE $240 per year so it can give you $125 back on the off chance you need to replace your microwave 🛠️ Home Protection Plus - spend upwards of $80 / month for potential appliance repairs that may or may not be covered and have a cap on cost 🔥 Natural Gas Balance - pay extra to offset your natural gas usage so DTE doesn't have to get off gas to meet its climate commitments 🌞 MIGreenPower - pay extra to subsidize DTE's solar and wind, despite the fact that these forms of energy generation are rapidly becoming the cheapest in the world 🤑 MIGreenPower Community Impact - subsidize DTE's new solar parks in Detroit, Highland Park, and River Rouge so that DTE only has to foot 30% of the capital cost

No. 4: DTE's "Value-Added" get-rich-quick schemes

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