DTE Energy sponsors events, performances and teams throughout Michigan's Detroit Edison and MichCon service areas. Some of our major sponsorships this season include...

DTE Energy Foundation Sponsors Campus Martius Tree Lighting

A 60-foot, Michigan grown tree wrapped in 19,000 glittering lights was the star of a family event at Detroit's Campus Martius Park. Gerry Anderson, DTE Energy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Detroit Mayor Dave Bing pulled the ceremonial switch to light the city's official Christmas tree.

The 50-year-old evergreen is a gift from the Kettunen Center, a Michigan 4-H Foundation conference and retreat facility near Cadillac.

The DTE Energy Foundation sponsored the Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony and related Winter Magic festivities enjoyed by thousands of people. This is the eighth year for the event and DTE Energy has sponsored it from its inception.

Sphinx Competition

The DTE Energy Foundation is the proud sponsor of the 15^th annual Sphinx Competition, Sunday, February 12, 2012 at Orchestra Hall in Detroit.

The Sphinx Competition is the only national annual competition for young Black and Latino string players, and takes place in Ann Arbor and Detroit.  This year's semi-finalists range in age from 12 to 25 and hail from 12 states.

The nation's top young string players will compete for prizes, national performance opportunities and scholarships. The Junior and Senior Finalists will perform with the all-Black and Latino, Sphinx Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maestro Michael Morgan. The Sphinx organization, like DTE Energy, believes cultural diversity strengthens communities. Sphinx strives to increase the participation of Blacks and Latinos in music schools, as professional musicians and as classical music audiences, to administer youth development initiatives in under served communities through music education and to promote the creation, performance, and preservation of works by Black and Latino composers.

America's Thanksgiving Parade

DTE Energy premiered a new float in the 2010 Thanksgiving Day Parade.  The float titled "Energy and Our Future," is filled with characters that are part of an imaginary “Energyville” community powered by renewable energy, where the characters discover the science of energy, the power of creativity and the importance of using energy safely and responsibly. Children can learn more about energy by visiting dtekids.com. 

Our Executive Chairman of the Board Tony Earley served as co-grand marshall, along with radio personality Dick Purtan.

For more than 20 years, it's been our pleasure to support America's Thanksgiving Parade®. Our executives don grease paint and rubber noses as part of the Distinguished Clown Corps. Employee volunteers guide balloons and our float down Woodward Avenue. The parade has been long-time supported by the Foundation and the company. 

Muskegon Lumberjacks

DTE Energy is sponsoring the Muskegon Lumberjacks professional hockey team at the L.C. Walker Arena in Muskegon whose season opened at "home" on Saturday, October 2nd.  DTE Energy will sponsor Super Saver Sunday's where fans will receive deeply discounted tickets in advance. DTE Energy will also be present on the Super Saver Sunday's to educate attendees on energy efficiency . Attendees will also have an opportunity to register to win an energy efficient appliance, compliments of DTE Energy. Information on Super Saver Sundays and the season schedule can be obtained at www.muskegonlumberjacks.com.

National Cherry Festival

DTE Energy celebrated its 10th year as a National Cherry Festival sponsor by announcing a $150,000 contribution to the Bayfront Development Project.   The DTE Energy Foundation will provide a three-year grant to Traverse City in support of a project that highlights the community’s most valued resource and honors one of the city’s most respected native sons, former Gov. William G. Milliken.

The grant will underwrite the William G. Milliken Children’s Stream, a natural water feature that will incorporate the artesian well present along the bayfront.

The DTE Energy Foundation’s sponsorship of the stream culminates 10 years of partnering with the environmental community to make Traverse City a greener place for families to enjoy.

Clean Energy Prize

The Clean Energy Prize is an annual entrepreneurship competition with a $100,000 prize pool that challenges teams from Michigan colleges to develop the best plan for bringing new clean-energy technologies to market. The competition requires that teams focus on business ideas that support renewable energy, energy efficiency, smart grid technologies, environmental control technologies, plug-in electric vehicles or energy storage. DTE Energy has been the primary sponsor since the contest’s inception in 2008. The competition is hosted and managed by the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor.

Summer Safety Town® 

Summer Safety Town is sponsored by the DTE Energy Foundation in partnership with Eastern Michigan University's (EMU) Children's Theatre Department.

EMU students spend their summer spreading safety messages to children ages 4-6 throughout the southeast region of Michigan. In 2010, the Communication, Media and Theatre Arts student teams traveled to 43 sites, did 117 presentations and delivered electrical and gas safety messages to 4,500 young students. The students, mostly ages 4-6, learned how to respond when they encounter an electrical or gas safety hazard, including to “stop, turn around and go the other way” from downed power lines, that “water and electricity don’t mix”, what to do if you smell natural gas and more.

This free presentation is offered from June through August for Michigan public schools summer safety education programs. The program content is aimed at grades preschool through second grade.

The DTE Energy Foundation DSO Pops Series

Since 2002, we've hosted this entertaining and popular concert series at Orchestra Hall, in partnership with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. View the performance schedule and ticket information at the DSO Web site.

Taylor Conservatory and Botanical Garden

The Taylor Conservatory Foundation, a non-profit organization, is creating a new botanical garden for public enjoyment in Southeast Michigan. A one/third scale reproduction of the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory on Belle Isle is the focal point of the city of Taylor's new Conservatory and Botanical Garden. The conservatory, originally built by DTE Energy for the 1999 Detroit International Bloomfest, was donated to the city. With the support of additional corporate sponsors, the Foundation is developing this new 2.3 acre garden in Heritage Park.