Company: DTK
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000936340-25-000081
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Company: DTE ENERGY CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form: DEF 14A
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### UNITED STATES

### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### Washington, D.C. 20549

#### SCHEDULE 14A

#### Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of the

#### Securities Exchange Act of 1934
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#### DTE Energy Company
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Letter to Shareholders

We invite you to attend our company’s annual meeting of shareholders, which will be held on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Please see page 71 for details regarding attendance.

Fellow Shareholders,

We invite you to attend our company’s annual meeting of shareholders, which will be held in a virtual-only format on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Please see page 71 for details regarding attendance.

2024 was a breakthrough year for our company. We invested a historic $4 billion to modernize our infrastructure, as our team of nearly 10,000 employees made significant progress building the electric grid of the future, upgrading and expanding our natural gas pipelines and transforming our power generation to produce cleaner energy for our customers.

By bringing their best energy to work every day, DTE team members earned Gallup’s Exceptional Workplace award for the 12 th consecutive year, placing us in the top 6% of companies globally. Employees also put our new safety energy model into action, recognizing and controlling high-energy hazards in