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
Chunk 4
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#### DTE ENERGY2025 PROXY STATEMENT1
Our Priorities

At DTE, we use our Operating Model as a guide to develop our priorities and deliver for our stakeholders. Focusing on the priorities of each of our stakeholder groups will allow us to reach our aspirations and best serve our customers.

| OUR TEAM                                                                                                                                                |     | COMMUNITY                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| –Achieve best-in-industry safety performance, health and wellbeing and employee engagement, using our merit-based DEI practices and Service Key culture 
 –Leverage Digital Technologies to empower employees, enable continuous improvement and drive value creation                                             |     | –Achieve legislative, regulatory and policy outcomes that support the delivery of reliable, clean and affordable energy to our customers and enable thriving communities                   
 –Advance our clean energy transition by efficiently executing our renewables and storage build, preparing the 2026 IRP, and progressing the development of a low or zero CO2 24x7 resource |
| CUSTOMERS                                                                                                                                               |     | INVESTORS                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| –Improve customer satisfaction by driving a culture of service excellence and operational excellence                                                    
 –Sustain the drive toward Nuclear Excellence and efficiency improvements                                                                                
 –Enhance storm response processes and service recovery capabilities to ensure customers are restored within 48 hours                                    
 –Efficiently execute our grid investment plan to reduce frequency and duration of electric outages                                                      |     | –Meet or exceed our financial objectives and position us for long-term financial health and success                                                                                        
 –Deliver distinctive growth, while ensuring customer affordability                                                                                                                         |

#### 2DTE ENERGY2025 PROXY STATEMENT
Shareholder Engagement

We have continued our shareholder engagement activities this year and, as a result of those discussions, we’ve learned a lot about what is important to our shareholders. The shareholder engagement team consists of members from the Corporate Secretary’s office, the Office of the General Counsel, Investor Relations, and Environmental Management & Safety. Additionally, our Lead Independent Director participates in engagements with our largest shareholders. Shareholder engagement is a year-round process for us.

| Every spring we reach out to large shareholders to discuss issues related to proxy season and the proposals to be presented at our annual meeting. In the fall we conduct another round of conversations to discuss general governance issues and trends. We also discuss pressing matters on an ad hoc basis. |     | The shareholder engagement team reports directly to the Corporate Governance Committee and other committees as needed, conveying the feedback received