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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#### Governance Highlights
The Board is committed to creating long-term value for our shareholders while operating in an ethical, legal, environmentally sensitive and socially responsible manner. The Board follows sound governance practices, some of which are highlighted below. For more detail, see the “Corporate Governance” section of this proxy statement.

■ Eleven of twelve director nominees, 92%, are independent; our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") is the only management director.

#### DTE ENERGY2025 PROXY STATEMENT5
■ All Board committees are composed exclusively of independent directors.

■ We have implemented a proxy access provision, which makes it possible for a group of shareholders meeting certain criteria to nominate and include in the Company’s proxy materials a candidate for the Board.

■ We have a Lead Independent Director, elected by the independent members of the Board. The Lead Independent Director maintains final approval authority over Board agendas, meeting materials and schedules.

■ The Lead Independent Director is also available for consultation and direct communication with large shareholders.

■ Independent directors met in executive sessions chaired by the Lead Independent Director at six of the seven 2024 Board meetings.

■ All of our directors are elected annually.

■ We have a majority vote requirement for uncontested director elections.

■ The Board and its committees conduct annual self-assessments.

■ Each independent director who has served for one year or more undergoes an annual peer review.

■ Our executive officers and directors are all subject to robust stock ownership requirements.

■ We have instituted anti-hedging policies applicable to all Company directors, officers and employees.

■ We limit our directors who are employed by public companies to a total of not more than two public company boards and all other directors to a total of not more than four public company boards.

Executive Compensation Highlights

Our executive compensation programs are designed to be competitive with our peers, have a meaningful performance component linked to the achievement of short-term and long-term goals that align with our shareholders’ long-term interests and encourage executives to have an ownership interest in the Company. Our executives’ total compensation shows strong pay-for-performance alignment with growth in long-term shareholder value creation. See “Pay vs. Performance” tables and graphs beginning on page 62.

The Company’s compensation programs are also designed to clearly align performance objectives for our Named Executive Officers with the interests of shareholders and with our system of priorities. Our performance measures are designed to help move our Company toward achieving these priorities. For more details, see our priorities alignment chart in the Compensation Discussion and Analysis Summary on page 39.

Other highlights from our compensation program