Company: DTK
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000936340-25-000081
Chunk: 95

Company: DTE ENERGY CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 95
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 Company's business by offering these individuals an opportunity to acquire a proprietary interest in the success of the Company, or to increase this interest, by permitting them to receive Shares of the Company. This Plan permits the grant of Options, Stock Appreciation Rights, Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units, Performance Stock Units and Other Stock-Based Awards.

2. Definitions . As used in this Plan, the following definitions apply:

(a) " Administrator " means the Board or any of its Committees that are administering this Plan, in accordance with Section 4 of this Plan.

(b) " Affiliate " means a corporation or other entity that, directly or through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by or is under common control with, the Company.

(c) " Applicable Laws " means the requirements relating to the administration of, and the issuance of securities under, equity-based awards or equity compensation plans, including, without limitation, the requirements of U.S. federal and state corporate laws, U.S. federal and state securities laws, the Code, any stock exchange or quotation system on which the Common Stock is listed or quoted and the applicable laws of any foreign country or jurisdiction where Awards are, or may be, granted under this Plan. For all purposes of this Plan, references to statutes and regulations shall be deemed to include any successor statutes or regulations, to the extent reasonably appropriate as determined by the Administrator.

(d) " Acquiror " means the surviving, continuing, successor, or purchasing corporation or other business entity or parent thereof, as the case may be, in a Change in Control.

(e) " Award " means, individually or collectively, a grant under this Plan of Options, SARs, Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units, Performance Stock Units, Other Stock‑Based Awards or Cash-Based Awards.

(f) " Award Agreement " means the written agreement evidencing the grant of an Award executed by the Company and the Participant, including any amendments thereto. The Award Agreement may be in written or electronic format, in such form and with such terms as may be specified by the Administrator, evidencing the terms and conditions of an individual Award. Each Award Agreement is subject to the terms and conditions of this Plan and the Summary. For this purpose, the " Summary " is the terms and conditions attached to every Award Agreement and incorporated by reference into the Award Agreement.

(g) " Board " means the Board of Directors of the Company.

(h) " Cash-Based Awards " means as set forth in Section 13 of this Plan.

(i) " Cause " means,