Company: DTK
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000936340-25-000081
Chunk: 21

Company: DTE ENERGY CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 21
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 Governance, Finance, Nuclear Review, Organization and Compensation, and Public Policy and Responsibility. The Board committees act in an advisory capacity to the full Board, except that the Organization and Compensation Committee has direct responsibility for the CEO’s goals, performance and compensation along with compensation of other executives, and the Audit Committee has direct responsibility for appointing, replacing, compensating and overseeing the independent registered public accounting firm. Each committee has adopted a charter that clearly establishes the committee’s respective roles and responsibilities. In addition, each committee has authority to retain independent outside professional advisors or experts as it deems advisable or necessary, including the sole authority to retain and terminate any such advisors, to carry out its duties.

The Board has determined that each member of the Audit, Corporate Governance, and Organization and Compensation Committees is independent under our categorical standards and that each member is free of any relationship that would interfere with his or her individual exercise of independent judgment. The Board has determined that each member of the Audit Committee meets the independence requirements under the SEC rules and NYSE listing standards applicable to audit committee members. The Board has also determined that each member of the Organization and Compensation Committee meets the independence requirements under the SEC rules and NYSE listing standards applicable to compensation committee members.

The full Board bears responsibility for oversight and risk management of plans to create long-term value for shareholders, while ensuring our company operates in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. The standing committees review and assess risks and opportunities associated with ESG issues under their purview, and report on these topics at every meeting of the full Board.

The following is a summary of the terms of each committee’s charter and the responsibilities of its members:

#### Audit Committee (Six meetings in 2024)
■ Assists the Board in its oversight of the quality and integrity of our accounting, auditing and financial reporting practices and the independence of the independent registered public accounting firm.

■ Reviews scope of the annual audit and the annual audit report of the independent registered public accounting firm.

■ Reviews financial reports, internal controls and financial and accounting risk exposures.

■ Discusses with management (a) earnings press releases and (b) material financial information and earnings guidance.

■ Reviews the policies, programs, performance and activities relating to the Company’s compliance and ethics programs.

■ Reviews accounting policies and system of internal controls.

■ Assumes responsibility for the appointment, replacement, compensation and oversight of the independent registered public accounting firm.

■ Reviews and pre-approves permitted non-audit functions performed by the independent registered public accounting firm.

■ Reviews the scope of work performed by