Company: DTK
Filing Date: 2025-07-29
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000936340-25-000182
Chunk: 76

Company: DTE ENERGY CO
Filing Date: 2025-07-29
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 76
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 value are recognized in earnings each period.

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Table of ContentsDTE Energy Company — DTE Electric CompanyCombined Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) — (Continued)

The Registrants' primary market risk exposure is associated with commodity prices, credit, and interest rates.  The Registrants have risk management policies to monitor and manage market risks.  The Registrants use derivative instruments to manage some of the exposure.  DTE Energy uses derivative instruments for trading purposes in its Energy Trading segment.  Contracts classified as derivative instruments include electricity, natural gas, oil, certain environmental contracts, forwards, futures, options, swaps, and foreign currency exchange contracts.  Items not classified as derivatives include natural gas and environmental inventory, pipeline transportation contracts, certain environmental contracts, and natural gas storage assets.DTE Electric — DTE Electric generates, purchases, distributes, and sells electricity.  DTE Electric uses forward contracts to manage changes in the price of electricity and fuel.  Substantially all of these contracts meet the normal purchases and normal sales exception and are therefore accounted for under the accrual method.  Other derivative contracts are MTM and recoverable through the PSCR mechanism when settled.  This results in the deferral of unrealized gains and losses as Regulatory assets or liabilities until realized.DTE Gas — DTE Gas purchases, stores, transports, distributes, and sells natural gas, and buys and sells transportation and storage capacity.  DTE Gas has fixed-priced contracts for portions of its expected natural gas supply requirements through March 2028.  Substantially all of these contracts meet the normal purchases and normal sales exception and are therefore accounted for under the accrual method.  Forward transportation and storage contracts are generally not derivatives and are therefore accounted for under the accrual method.DTE Vantage — DTE Vantage manages and operates renewable gas recovery projects, power generation assets, and other customer specific energy solutions.  Long-term contracts and hedging instruments are used in the marketing and management of the segment assets.  These contracts and hedging instruments are generally not derivatives and are therefore accounted for under the accrual method.Energy Trading — Commodity Price Risk — Energy Trading markets and trades electricity, natural gas physical products, and energy financial instruments, and provides energy and asset management services utilizing energy commodity derivative instruments.  Forwards, futures, options, and swap agreements are used to manage exposure to the risk of market price and volume fluctuations in its operations.  These derivatives are accounted for by recording changes