Company: DTK
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: S-3ASR
Source: 0001193125-25-073369
Chunk: 74

Company: DTE ENERGY CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: S-3ASR
Chunk 74
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 DTE Electric, as applicable, or their respective shareholders for or with respect to any acts or omissions in the performance of his or her duties as a director. DTE Energy’s articles of incorporation and DTE Electric’s articles of incorporation provide that each person who is or was or had agreed to become a director or officer, or each such person who is or was serving or who had agreed to serve at the request of the board of directors as an employee or agent or as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise (including the heirs, executors, administrators or estate of such person), shall be indemnified to the full extent permitted by the Corporation Act or any other applicable laws as presently or hereafter in effect. DTE Energy’s articles of incorporation further state that DTE Energy may enter into one or more agreements with any person, which agreements provide for indemnification greater or different than that provided for in the articles of incorporation. In addition, pursuant to the authority granted by Article VII of its articles of incorporation, DTE Electric has entered into indemnification agreements with its officers and directors which provide for indemnification to the maximum extent permitted by law. These agreements set forth certain procedures for the advancement by DTE Electric of certain expenses to indemnitees. Section 209(1)(c) of the Corporation Act permits a corporation to eliminate or limit a director’s liability to the corporation or its shareholders for money damages for any action taken or any failure to take action as a director, except liability for (1) the amount of financial benefit received by a director to which he or she is not entitled; (2) the intentional infliction of harm on the corporation or the shareholders; (3) a violation of Section 551 of the Corporation Act, dealing with unlawful distributions; or (4) an intentional criminal act. Section 561 of the Corporation Act permits a corporation to indemnify its directors and officers against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, penalties, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and II-1

reasonably incurred by them in connection with any action, suit or proceeding brought by third parties, if such directors or officers acted in good faith and in a manner they reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation or its shareholders and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe their conduct was unlawful. Sections 562 and 564c of the Corporation Act provide that in a derivative action,