Exhibit 10.1





Exhibit 10.1




EXECUTION COPY




AMENDED AND RESTATED




FIVE-YEAR CREDIT AGREEMENT




Dated as of October 21, 2011




Among




THE DETROIT EDISON COMPANY,




as Borrower




and




THE INITIAL LENDERS NAMED HEREIN,




as Initial Lenders




and




BARCLAYS BANK PLC,




as Administrative Agent




and




	 	 	 	 	 
	CITIBANK, N.A.,
	 	JPMORGAN CHASE
	 	THE ROYAL BANK OF
	 
	 	BANK, N.A.,
	 	SCOTLAND plc,
	 	 	 	 	 
	as Co-Syndication Agent
	 	as Co-Syndication Agent
	 	as Co-Syndication Agent






and




BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,




as Documentation Agent




	 	 	 
	RBS SECURITIES INC.,
	 	THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA,






as Co-Lead Arrangers and Joint Book Runners




 


 









 







TABLE OF CONTENTS




	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	Page	 
	 
	ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
	 	 	1	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 1.01. Certain Defined Terms
	 	 	1	 
	SECTION 1.02. Computation of Time Periods
	 	 	16	 
	SECTION 1.03. Accounting Terms
	 	 	16	 
	SECTION 1.04. Amendment and Restatement of the Existing Credit Agreement
	 	 	17	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE II AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF THE REVOLVING CREDIT ADVANCES
	 	 	17	 
	SECTION 2.01. Commitment
	 	 	17	 
	SECTION 2.02. Making the Revolving Credit Advances
	 	 	18	 
	SECTION 2.03. Fees
	 	 	19	 
	SECTION 2.04. Termination or Reduction of the Commitments; Increase of the
Commitments
	 	 	19	 
	SECTION 2.05. Repayment of Revolving Credit Advances
	 	 	20	 
	SECTION 2.06. Interest on Revolving Credit Advances
	 	 	20	 
	SECTION 2.07. Interest Rate Determination
	 	 	21	 
	SECTION 2.08. Optional Conversion of Revolving Credit Advances
	 	 	22	 
	SECTION 2.09. Prepayments of Revolving Credit Advances
	 	 	23	 
	SECTION 2.10. Increased Costs
	 	 	23	 
	SECTION 2.11. Illegality
	 	 	25	 
	SECTION 2.12. Payments and Computations
	 	 	25	 
	SECTION 2.13. Taxes
	 	 	26	 
	SECTION 2.14. Sharing of Payments, Etc
	 	 	29	 
	SECTION 2.15. Use of Proceeds
	 	 	30	 
	SECTION 2.16. Noteless Agreement; Evidence of Indebtedness
	 	 	30	 
	SECTION 2.17. Defaulting Lenders
	 	 	31	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE III: CONDITIONS TO EFFECTIVENESS AND LENDING
	 	 	32	 
	SECTION 3.01. Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness of this Agreement
	 	 	32	 
	SECTION 3.02. Conditions Precedent to Each Borrowing
	 	 	33	 
	SECTION 3.03. Determinations Under Section 3.01
	 	 	34	 





 


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	ARTICLE IV: REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
	 	 	34	 
	SECTION 4.01. Representations and Warranties of the Borrower
	 	 	34	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE V: COVENANTS OF THE BORROWER
	 	 	37	 
	SECTION 5.01. Affirmative Covenants
	 	 	37	 
	SECTION 5.02. Negative Covenants
	 	 	39	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE VI: EVENTS OF DEFAULT
	 	 	41	 
	SECTION 6.01. Events of Default
	 	 	41	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE VII: THE AGENT
	 	 	43	 
	SECTION 7.01. Authorization and Action
	 	 	43	 
	SECTION 7.02. Agent’s Reliance, Etc.
	 	 	43	 
	SECTION 7.03. Barclays and Affiliates
	 	 	44	 
	SECTION 7.04. Lender Credit Decision
	 	 	44	 
	SECTION 7.05. Indemnification
	 	 	44	 
	SECTION 7.06. Successor Agent
	 	 	44	 
	SECTION 7.07. Co-Syndication Agents and Documentation Agent
	 	 	45	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE VIII: MISCELLANEOUS
	 	 	45	 
	SECTION 8.01. Amendments, Etc.
	 	 	45	 
	SECTION 8.02. Notices, Etc.
	 	 	46	 
	SECTION 8.03. No Waiver; Remedies
	 	 	48	 
	SECTION 8.04. Costs and Expenses; Damage Waiver
	 	 	48	 
	SECTION 8.05. Right of Set-off
	 	 	50	 
	SECTION 8.06. Binding Effect
	 	 	50	 
	SECTION 8.07. Assignments, Designations and Participations
	 	 	50	 
	SECTION 8.08. Confidentiality
	 	 	55	 
	SECTION 8.09. Governing Law
	 	 	55	 
	SECTION 8.10. Execution in Counterparts; Integration
	 	 	55	 
	SECTION 8.11. Jurisdiction, Etc
	 	 	55	 
	SECTION 8.12. Waiver of Jury Trial
	 	 	56	 
	SECTION 8.13. USA Patriot Act Notification
	 	 	56	 
	SECTION 8.14. Severability
	 	 	56	 
	SECTION 8.15. No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility
	 	 	57	 





 


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SCHEDULES AND EXHIBITS




	 	 	 	 	 
	Schedules	 	 	 	 
	Schedule I
	 	—	 	List of Applicable Lending Offices
	Pricing Schedule
	 	 	 	 






	 	 	 	 	 
	Exhibits	 	 	 	 
	Exhibit A
	 	—	 	Form of Note (If Requested)
	Exhibit B
	 	—	 	Form of Notice of Borrowing
	Exhibit C
	 	—	 	Form of Assignment and Assumption
	Exhibit D
	 	—	 	Form of Certificate by Borrower
	Exhibit E-1
	 	—	 	Form of Opinion of General Counsel to the Borrower
	Exhibit E-2
	 	—	 	Form of Opinion of Hunton & Williams LLP
	Exhibit F
	 	—	 	Form of Compliance Certificate
	Exhibit G
	 	—	 	Form of Lender Supplement
	Exhibit H
	 	—	 	Form of Conversion Notice
	Exhibit I
	 	—	 	Form of Prepayment Notice





 


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This AMENDED AND RESTATED FIVE-YEAR CREDIT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) dated as of
October 21, 2011 is entered into among THE DETROIT EDISON COMPANY, a Michigan corporation (the
“Borrower”), the banks, financial institutions and other institutional lenders (the
“Initial Lenders”) listed on the signature pages hereof, and BARCLAYS BANK PLC
(“Barclays”), as Administrative Agent (the “Agent”) for the Lenders (as hereinafter
defined).



PRELIMINARY STATEMENT




WHEREAS, the Borrower, the lenders party thereto and Barclays, as administrative agent, are
currently party to the Three-Year Credit Agreement, dated as of August 20, 2010 (the “Existing
Credit Agreement”).



WHEREAS, the Borrower, the Lenders, the Departing Lenders (as hereinafter defined), and the
Agent have agreed (a) to enter into this Agreement in order to (i) amend and restate the Existing
Credit Agreement in its entirety; (ii) re-evidence the “Obligations” under, and as defined in, the
Existing Credit Agreement, which shall be repayable in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
and (iii) set forth the terms and conditions under which the Lenders will, from time to time, make
loans to or for the benefit of the Borrower and (b) that each Departing Lender shall cease to be a
party to the Existing Credit Agreement, as evidenced by its execution and delivery of its Departing
Lender Signature Page.



WHEREAS, it is the intent of the parties hereto that this Agreement not constitute a novation
of the obligations and liabilities of the parties under the Existing Credit Agreement or be deemed
to evidence or constitute full repayment of such obligations and liabilities, but that this
Agreement amend and restate in its entirety the Existing Credit Agreement and re-evidence the
obligations and liabilities of the Borrower outstanding thereunder, which shall be payable in
accordance with the terms hereof.



WHEREAS, it is also the intent of the Borrower to confirm that all obligations under the
applicable “Loan Documents” (as referred to and defined in the Existing Credit Agreement) shall
continue in full force and effect as modified or restated by the Loan Documents (as referred to and
defined herein) and that, from and after the Effective Date, all references to the “Credit
Agreement” contained in any such existing “Loan Documents” shall be deemed to refer to this
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NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants and agreements
contained herein, the parties hereto hereby agree, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions
set forth in Article III, as follows:



ARTICLE I




DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS




SECTION 1.01. Certain Defined Terms.  As used in
this Agreement, the following terms shall have the
following meanings (such meanings to be equally applicable to both the singular and plural
forms of the terms defined):




“Affiliate” means, as to any Person, any other Person that, directly or
indirectly, controls, is controlled by or is under common control with such Person or is a
director or officer of such Person. For purposes of this definition, the term “control”
(including the terms “controlling”, “controlled by” and “under common control with”) of a
Person means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to vote 25% or more of the
Voting Stock of such Person or to direct or cause the direction of the management and
policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of Voting Stock, by contract or
otherwise.




“Agent” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.




“Agent’s Account” means the account of the Agent maintained by the Agent at
Barclays with its office at 1301 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY 10019, Account No. 050-019104,
Attention: Zivile Zekaite.




“Agents” means the Agent and each Co-Syndication Agent, collectively.




“Agent Parties” has the meaning specified in Section 8.02(b).




“Anti-Money Laundering Laws” has the meaning specified in Section 4.01(p).




“Applicable Lending Office” means, with respect to each Lender, such Lender’s
Domestic Lending Office in the case of a Base Rate Advance and such Lender’s Eurodollar
Lending Office in the case of a Eurodollar Rate Advance.




“Applicable Margin” means, as of any date, (i) with respect to all Base Rate
Advances, the percentage rate per annum which is applicable at such time with respect to
Base Rate Advances as set forth in the Pricing Schedule, and (ii) with respect to all
Eurodollar Rate Advances, the percentage rate per annum which is applicable at such time
with respect to Eurodollar Rate Advances as set forth in the Pricing Schedule.




“Applicable Percentage” means, as of any date, the percentage rate per annum at
which Facility Fees are accruing on each Lender’s Commitment (without regard to usage) at
such time as set forth in the Pricing Schedule.




“Approved Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that (a) is
engaged in making, purchasing, holding or investing in bank loans and similar extensions of
credit in the ordinary course of its business, (b) has a combined capital and surplus of at
least $500,000,000, and (c) is administered or managed by (x) a Lender, (y) an Affiliate of
a Lender or (z) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.




“Arrangers” means, collectively, RBS Securities Inc. and The Bank of Nova
Scotia, in their capacities as co-lead arrangers and joint book runners for the credit
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“Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by
a Lender and an Eligible Assignee, and accepted by the Agent, in substantially the form of
Exhibit C hereto.




“Audited Statements” means the Consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower as
at December 31, 2010, and the related Consolidated statements of income and cash flows of
the Borrower for the fiscal year then ended, accompanied by the opinion thereon of the
Borrower’s independent public accountants.




“Bankruptcy Event” means, with respect to any Person, such Person (a) becomes
the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, or has had a receiver, conservator,
trustee, administrator, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person
charged with the reorganization or liquidation of its business appointed for it, or, in the
good faith determination of the Agent, has taken any action in furtherance of, or indicating
its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, any such proceeding or appointment or (b)
has a parent company that has become the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding,
or has had a receiver, conservator, trustee, custodian, administrator, assignee for the
benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its
business, appointed for it, or has taken any action in furtherance of, or indicating its
consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment; provided
that, a Bankruptcy Event shall not result solely by virtue of any ownership interest, or the
acquisition of any ownership interest, in such Person by a Governmental Authority or
instrumentality thereof; provided, further, that such ownership interest does not result in
or provide such Person with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United
States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit
such Person (or such Governmental Authority or instrumentality) to reject, repudiate,
disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made by such Person.




“Barclays” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.




“Base Rate” means a fluctuating interest rate per annum equal to, for any day,
the highest of:




(a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day;




(b) the Eurodollar Rate for a one month Interest Period on such day (or if such
day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day) plus 1%; or




(c) 1/2 of 1% per annum above the Federal Funds Rate in effect on such day.




“Base Rate Advance” means a Revolving Credit Advance that bears interest as
provided in Section 2.06(a)(i).




“Borrower” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.


 


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“Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Revolving Credit
Advances of the same Type and (in the case of Eurodollar Rate Advances) having the same
Interest Period, made by each of the Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01.




“Business Day” means a day of the year on which banks are not required or
authorized by law to close in New York City or Chicago, Illinois and, if the applicable
Business Day relates to any Eurodollar Rate Advances, on which dealings are carried on in
the London interbank market.




“Capitalization” means the sum of (a) Total Funded Debt plus (b)
Consolidated Net Worth.




“Commitment” means, for each Lender, the obligation of such Lender to make
Revolving Credit Advances to the Borrower in an aggregate amount not exceeding the amount
set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule I hereto or if such Lender has entered
into any Assignment and Assumption, set forth for such Lender in the Register maintained by
the Agent pursuant to Section 8.07(d), as such amount may be modified from time to time
pursuant to the terms hereof.




“Communications” has the meaning specified in Section 8.02(b).




“Confidential Information” means information that the Borrower furnishes to the
Agent or any Lender designated as confidential, but does not include any such information
that is or becomes generally available to the public or that is or becomes available to the
Agent or such Lender from a source other than the Borrower.




“Consolidated” refers to the consolidation of accounts in accordance with GAAP.




“Consolidated Net Worth” means, as of any date of determination, the
consolidated total stockholders’ equity, including capital stock (but excluding treasury
stock and capital stock subscribed and unissued), additional paid-in capital and retained
earnings (but excluding the Excluded Pension Effects) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
determined in accordance with GAAP.




“Convert”, “Conversion” and “Converted” each refers to a
conversion of Revolving Credit Advances of one Type into Revolving Credit Advances of the
other Type pursuant to Section 2.07 or 2.08.




“Co-Syndication Agents” means, collectively, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc,
Citibank, N.A., and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in their capacities as co-syndication agents
for the credit facility evidenced by this Agreement.




“Credit Agreements” means, collectively, this Agreement, the DTE Credit
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“Debt” of any Person means, without duplication, (a) all indebtedness of such
Person for borrowed money, (b) all obligations of such Person for the deferred purchase
price of property or services (other than trade payables not overdue by more than 60 days
incurred in the ordinary course of such Person’s business), (c) all obligations of such
Person evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or other similar instruments, (d) all
obligations of such Person created or arising under any conditional sale or other title
retention agreement with respect to property acquired by such Person (even though the rights
and remedies of the seller or lender under such agreement in the event of default are
limited to repossession or sale of such property), (e) all obligations of such Person as
lessee under leases that have been or should be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as
capital leases, (f) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person in respect of
acceptances, letters of credit or similar extensions of credit, (g) all obligations of such
Person in respect of Hedge Agreements, (h) all Debt of others referred to in clauses (a)
through (g) above or clause (i) below guaranteed directly or indirectly in any manner by
such Person, or in effect guaranteed directly or indirectly by such Person through an
agreement (1) to pay or purchase such Debt or to advance or supply funds for the payment or
purchase of such Debt, (2) to purchase, sell or lease (as lessee or lessor) property, or to
purchase or sell services, primarily for the purpose of enabling the debtor to make payment
of such Debt or to assure the holder of such Debt against loss, (3) to supply funds to or in
any other manner invest in the debtor (including any agreement to pay for property or
services irrespective of whether such property is received or such services are rendered) or
(4) otherwise to assure a creditor against loss (all such obligations under this clause
(h) being “Guaranteed Obligations”), and (i) all Debt referred to in clauses (a)
through (h) above secured by (or for which the holder of such Debt has an existing right,
contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property (including, without
limitation, accounts and contract rights) owned by such Person, even though such Person has
not assumed or become liable for the payment of such Debt. See the definition of
“Nonrecourse Debt” below.




“Default” means any Event of Default or any event that would constitute an
Event of Default but for the requirement that notice be given or time elapse or both.




“Defaulting Lender” means any Lender that (a) has failed, within two Business
Days of the date required to be funded or paid, to (i) fund any portion of its Revolving
Credit Advances, or (ii) pay over to the Agent or any other Lender any other amount required
to be paid by it hereunder, unless, in the case of clause (i) above, such failure is the
result of such Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent to funding
(specifically identified and including the particular default, if any) has not been
satisfied, (b) has notified the Borrower, the Agent or any other Lender in writing, or has
made a public statement to the effect, that it does not intend or expect to comply with any
of its funding obligations under this Agreement (unless, in the good faith determination of
the Agent, such position is based on such Lender’s good faith determination that a condition
precedent to funding a loan under this Agreement cannot be satisfied) or generally under
other agreements in which it commits to extend credit, (c) has failed, within three Business
Days after request by the Agent or any other Lender, acting in good faith, to provide a
certification in writing from an authorized officer of such Lender that it will comply with
its obligations to fund prospective Revolving Credit Advances under this Agreement, provided
that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon the
Agent’s and Borrower’s receipt of such certification, or (d) has become the subject of a
Bankruptcy Event; provided that, if a Bankruptcy Event shall
have occurred with respect to a Lender solely by reason of events relating to a parent
company of such Lender, the Agent may, in its discretion, determine that such Lender is not
a “Defaulting Lender” if and for so long as the Agent is satisfied that such Lender will
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“Departing Lender” means each lender under the Existing Credit Agreement that
executes and delivers to the Agent a Departing Lender Signature Page.




“Departing Lender Signature Page” means each signature page to this Agreement
on which it is indicated that the Departing Lender executing the same shall cease to be a
party to the Existing Credit Agreement to which it is a party on the Effective Date.




“Designating Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 8.07(h).




“Disclosed Litigation” has the meaning specified in Section 4.01(f).




“Domestic Lending Office” means, with respect to any Lender, the office of such
Lender specified as its “Domestic Lending Office” opposite its name on Schedule I hereto or
in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which it became a Lender, or such other office
of such Lender as such Lender may from time to time specify to the Borrower and the Agent.




“DTE Energy” means DTE Energy Company, a Michigan corporation.




“DTE Credit Agreement” means that certain Amended and Restated Five-Year Credit
Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and among DTE Energy, as borrower, the financial
institutions from time to time party thereto as lenders, and Citibank, N.A., as
administrative agent for the lenders, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time.




“Effective Date” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01.




“Eligible Assignee” means (i) a Lender; (ii) an Affiliate of a Lender; (iii) a
commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States, or any State thereof, and
having a combined capital and surplus of at least $500,000,000; (iv) a savings and loan
association or savings bank organized under the laws of the United States, or any State
thereof, and having a combined capital and surplus of at least $500,000,000; (v) a
commercial bank organized under the laws of any other country that is a member of the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development or has concluded special lending
arrangements with the International Monetary Fund associated with its General Arrangements
to Borrow, or a political subdivision of any such country, and having a combined capital and
surplus of at least $500,000,000, so long as such bank is acting through a branch or agency
located in the United States; (vi) the central bank of any country that is a member of the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; (vii) a finance company, insurance
company or other financial institution or fund (whether a corporation, partnership, trust or
other entity) that is engaged in making, purchasing or otherwise investing in commercial
loans in the ordinary course of its business and having a combined capital and surplus of at
least $500,000,000; (viii) an
Approved Fund; and (ix) any other Person approved by the Agent and, so long as no Event
of Default shall be continuing, the Borrower, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld
or delayed by either party; provided, however, that neither the Borrower nor
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“Environmental Action” means any action, suit, demand, demand letter, claim,
notice of non-compliance or violation, notice of liability or potential liability,
investigation, proceeding, consent order or consent agreement relating in any way to any
Environmental Law, Environmental Permit or Hazardous Materials or arising from alleged
injury or threat of injury to the environment, including, without limitation, (a) by any
governmental or regulatory authority for enforcement, cleanup, removal, response, remedial
or other actions or damages and (b) by any governmental or regulatory authority or any third
party for damages, contribution, indemnification, cost recovery, compensation or injunctive
relief.




“Environmental Law” means any federal, state, local or foreign statute, law,
ordinance, rule, regulation, code, order, judgment, decree or judicial or agency
interpretation, policy or guidance relating to pollution or protection of the environment or
natural resources, including, without limitation, those relating to the use, handling,
transportation, treatment, storage, disposal, release or discharge of Hazardous Materials.




“Environmental Permit” means any permit, approval, identification number,
license or other authorization required under any Environmental Law.




“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
from time to time, and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued thereunder.




“ERISA Affiliate” means any Person that for purposes of Title IV of ERISA is a
member of the Borrower’s controlled group, or under common control with the Borrower, within
the meaning of Section 414 of the Internal Revenue Code.




“ERISA Event” means (a) (i) the occurrence of a reportable event, within the
meaning of Section 4043 of ERISA, with respect to any Plan unless the 30-day notice
requirement with respect to such event has been waived by the PBGC, or (ii) the requirements
of subsection (1) of Section 4043(b) of ERISA (without regard to subsection (2) of such
Section) are met with respect to a contributing sponsor, as defined in Section 4001(a)(13)
of ERISA, of a Plan, and an event described in paragraph (9), (10), (11), (12) or (13) of
Section 4043(c) of ERISA is reasonably expected to occur with respect to such Plan within
the following 30 days; (b) the application for a minimum funding waiver with respect to a
Plan; (c) the provision by the administrator of any Plan of a notice of intent to terminate
such Plan pursuant to Section 4041(a)(2) of ERISA (including any such notice with respect to
a plan amendment referred to in Section 4041(e) of ERISA); (d) the cessation of operations
at a facility of the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate in the circumstances described in
Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (e) the withdrawal by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from a
Multiple Employer Plan during a plan year for which it was a substantial employer, as
defined in Section
4001(a)(2) of ERISA; (f) the conditions for the imposition of a lien under Section
302(f) of ERISA shall have been met with respect to any Plan; (g) the adoption of an
amendment to a Plan requiring the provision of security to such Plan pursuant to Section 307
of ERISA; or (h) the institution by the PBGC of proceedings to terminate a Plan pursuant to
Section 4042 of ERISA, or the occurrence of any event or condition described in Section 4042
of ERISA that constitutes grounds for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to
administer, a Plan.


 


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“Eurocurrency Liabilities” has the meaning assigned to that term in Regulation
D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time to time.




“Eurodollar Lending Office” means, with respect to any Lender, the office of
such Lender specified as its “Eurodollar Lending Office” opposite its name on Schedule I
hereto or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which it became a Lender (or, if no
such office is specified, its Domestic Lending Office), or such other office of such Lender
as such Lender may from time to time specify to the Borrower and the Agent.




“Eurodollar Rate” means, for any Interest Period for each Eurodollar Rate
Advance comprising part of the same Borrowing, an interest rate per annum equal to the rate
per annum obtained by dividing (a) the rate appearing on Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page (or on
any successor or substitute page of the Service, or any successor to or substitute for the
Service, providing rate quotations comparable to those currently provided on such page of
the Service, as determined by the Agent after consultation with the Borrower from time to
time for purposes of providing quotations of interest rates applicable to U.S. dollar
deposits in the London interbank market) at approximately 11:00 A.M. (London time) two
Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, as the rate for U.S. dollar
deposits with a maturity comparable to such Interest Period, or in the event that such rate
is not available at such time for any reason, the average (rounded upward to the nearest
whole multiple of 1/16 of 1% per annum, if such average is not such a multiple) of the rate
per annum at which deposits in U.S. dollars are offered by the principal office of each of
the Reference Banks in London, England to prime banks in the London interbank market at
11:00 A.M. (London time) two Business Days before the first day of such Interest Period in
an amount approximately equal to such Reference Bank’s Eurodollar Rate Advance comprising
part of such Borrowing to be outstanding during such Interest Period and for a period equal
to such Interest Period, by (b) a percentage equal to 100% minus the Eurodollar Rate Reserve
Percentage for such Interest Period, subject, however, to the provisions of
Section 2.07.




“Eurodollar Rate Advance” means a Revolving Credit Advance that bears interest
as provided in Section 2.06(a)(ii).




“Eurodollar Rate Reserve Percentage” for any Interest Period for all Eurodollar
Rate Advances comprising part of the same Borrowing means the reserve percentage applicable
two Business Days before the first day of such Interest Period under regulations issued from
time to time by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor) for
determining the maximum reserve requirement (including,
without limitation, any emergency, supplemental or other marginal reserve requirement)
for a member bank of the Federal Reserve System in New York City with respect to liabilities
or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency Liabilities (or with respect to any other
category of liabilities that includes deposits by reference to which the interest rate on
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“Events of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 6.01.




“Excluded Pension Effects” means the non-cash effects on Consolidated Net Worth
resulting from the implementation of FASB Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No.
158, Employers’ Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and Other Postretirement Plans, an
amendment of FASB Statements No. 87, 88, 106, and 132(R), dated September 2006.




“Existing Credit Agreement” has the meaning specified in the preliminary
statements of this Agreement.




“Existing Mortgage” has the meaning specified in Section 5.02(a)(vi).




“Facility Fee” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(a).




“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Internal Revenue Code, as of
the date of this Agreement, and any current or future regulations or official
interpretations thereof.




“Federal Funds Rate” means, for any period, a fluctuating interest rate per
annum equal for each day during such period to the weighted average of the rates on
overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by
federal funds brokers, as published for such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, for
the next preceding Business Day) by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate
is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for
such day on such transactions received by the Agent from three federal funds brokers of
recognized standing selected by it.




“Financial Officer” of any Person means the chief executive officer, president,
chief financial officer, any vice president, controller, assistant controller, treasurer or
any assistant treasurer of such Person.




“Funded Debt” means, as to any Person, without duplication: (a) all Debt of
such Person for borrowed money or which has been incurred in connection with the acquisition
of assets (excluding (i) contingent reimbursement obligations in respect of letters of
credit and bankers’ acceptances, (ii) Nonrecourse Debt, (iii) Junior Subordinated Debt, (iv)
Mandatorily Convertible Securities, and (v) Hybrid Equity Securities), (b) all capital lease
obligations of such Person and (c) all Guaranteed Obligations of Funded Debt of other
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“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of
America.




“Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States of America
or any other nation, or of any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and
any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity
exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or
functions of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national bodies such as the
European Union or the European Central Bank).




“Guaranteed Obligations” has the meaning specified in clause (h) of the
definition of “Debt”.




“Hazardous Materials” means (a) petroleum and petroleum products, by-products
or breakdown products, radioactive materials, asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated
biphenyls and radon gas and (b) any other chemicals, materials or substances designated,
classified or regulated as hazardous or toxic or as a pollutant or contaminant under any
Environmental Law.




“Hedge Agreements” means interest rate swap, cap or collar agreements, interest
rate future or option contracts, currency swap agreements, currency future or option
contracts and other similar agreements.




“Hybrid Equity Securities” means any securities issued by the Borrower or its
Subsidiary or a financing vehicle of the Borrower or its Subsidiary that (i) are classified
as possessing a minimum of “intermediate equity content” by S&P, Basket C equity credit by
Moody’s, and 50% equity credit by Fitch and (ii) require no repayments or prepayments and no
mandatory redemptions or repurchases, in each case, prior to at least 91 days after the
later of the termination of the Commitments and the repayment in full of the Revolving
Credit Advances and all other amounts due under this Agreement.




“Identified Reports on Form 8-K” means those certain reports of the Borrower on
Form 8-K filed or furnished with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 9, 2011,
February 22, 2011, March 11, 2011, March 28, 2011, April 27, 2011, May 16, 2011, June 1,
2011, June 28, 2011, July 28, 2011, August 26, 2011 and September 2, 2011.




“Initial Lenders” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.




“Interest Period” means, for each Eurodollar Rate Advance comprising part of
the same Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Eurodollar Rate Advance or the
date of the Conversion of any Base Rate Advance into such Eurodollar Rate Advance and ending
on the last day of the period selected by the Borrower pursuant to the provisions below and,
thereafter, with respect to Eurodollar Rate Advances, each subsequent period commencing on
the last day of the immediately preceding Interest Period and ending on the last day of the
period selected by the Borrower pursuant to the provisions below. The duration of each such
Interest Period shall be one, two, three or
six months, as the Borrower may, upon notice received by the Agent not later than 11:00
A.M. (New York City time) on the third Business Day prior to the first day of such Interest
Period, select; provided, however, that:




(i) the Borrower may not select any Interest Period that ends after the
Termination Date then in effect;




(ii) Interest Periods commencing on the same date for Eurodollar Rate Advances
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(iii) whenever the last day of any Interest Period would otherwise occur on a
day other than a Business Day, the last day of such Interest Period shall be
extended to occur on the next succeeding Business Day, provided,
however, that, if such extension would cause the last day of such Interest
Period to occur in the next following calendar month, the last day of such Interest
Period shall occur on the next preceding Business Day; and




(iv) whenever the first day of any Interest Period occurs on a day of an
initial calendar month for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the
calendar month that succeeds such initial calendar month by the number of months
equal to the number of months in such Interest Period, such Interest Period shall
end on the last Business Day of such succeeding calendar month.




“Internal Revenue Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
from time to time, and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued thereunder.




“Junior Subordinated Debt” means (a) subordinated junior deferrable interest
debentures of the Borrower, (b) the related preferred securities, if applicable, of
Subsidiaries of the Borrower and (c) the related subordinated guarantees, if applicable, of
the Borrower, in each case, from time to time outstanding.




“Lender Supplement” has the meaning specified in Section 2.04(c).




“Lenders” means the Initial Lenders and each Person that shall become a party
hereto pursuant to Section 8.07(a), (b) and (c). For the avoidance of doubt, the term
“Lenders” excludes Departing Lenders.




“Lien” means any lien, security interest or other charge or encumbrance of any
kind, or any other type of preferential arrangement, including, without limitation, the lien
or retained security title of a conditional vendor and any easement, right of way or other
encumbrance on title to real property.




“Loan Documents” means this Agreement and the Notes.




“Mandatorily Convertible Securities” means any mandatorily convertible
equity-linked securities issued by the Borrower or its Subsidiary, so long as the terms of
such securities require no repayments or prepayments and no mandatory redemptions or
repurchases, in each case prior to at least 91 days after the later of the termination of
the
Commitments and the repayment in full of the Revolving Credit Advances and all other
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“Material Adverse Change” means any material adverse change in the business,
condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance or properties of the Borrower
and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.




“Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business,
condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance or properties of the Borrower
and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, or (b) the ability of the Borrower to perform its
obligations under any Loan Document to which it is a party.




“MichCon” means Michigan Consolidated Gas Company, a Michigan corporation,
wholly owned (indirectly) by DTE Energy.




“MichCon Credit Agreement” means that certain Amended and Restated Five-Year
Credit Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among MichCon, as borrower, the financial
institutions from time to time parties thereto as lenders, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as
administrative agent for the lenders, as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time.




“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.




“Moody’s Rating” is defined in the Pricing Schedule.




“Multiemployer Plan” means a multiemployer plan, as defined in Section
4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is making or accruing an
obligation to make contributions, or has within any of the preceding five plan years made or
accrued an obligation to make contributions.




“Multiple Employer Plan” means a single employer plan, as defined in Section
4001(a)(15) of ERISA, that (a) is maintained for employees of the Borrower or any ERISA
Affiliate and at least one Person other than the Borrower and the ERISA Affiliates or (b)
was so maintained and in respect of which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate could have
liability under Section 4064 or 4069 of ERISA in the event such plan has been or were to be
terminated.




“Nonrecourse Debt” means Debt of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in
respect of which no recourse may be had by the creditors under such Debt against the
Borrower or such Subsidiary in its individual capacity or against the assets of the Borrower
or such Subsidiary, other than (a) to assets which were purchased or refinanced by the
Borrower or such Subsidiary with the proceeds of such Debt, (b) to the proceeds of such
assets, or (c) if such assets are held by a Subsidiary formed solely for such purpose, to
such Subsidiary or the equity interests in such Subsidiary; provided that, for
purposes of clarity, it is understood that Securitization Bonds shall constitute Nonrecourse
Debt for all purposes of the Loan Documents, except to the extent (and only to the extent)
of any claims made against the Borrower in respect of its indemnification obligations
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“Note” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16.




“Notice of Borrowing” has the meaning specified in Section 2.02(a).




“Obligations” means all unpaid principal of and accrued and unpaid interest on
Revolving Credit Advances, all accrued and unpaid fees and all expenses, reimbursements,
indemnities and other obligations of the Borrower to the Lenders or to any Lender, the Agent
or any indemnified party arising under the Loan Documents.




“OFAC” has the meaning specified in Section 4.01(o).




“Other Taxes” has the meaning specified in Section 2.13(b).




“Participant Register” has the meaning specified in Section 8.07(e).




“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (or any successor).




“Person” means an individual, partnership, corporation (including a business
trust), joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture, limited
liability company or other entity, or a government or any political subdivision or agency
thereof.




“Plan” means a Single Employer Plan or a Multiple Employer Plan.




“Platform” has the meaning specified in Section 8.02(b).




“Pricing Schedule” means the Pricing Schedule identifying the Applicable Margin
and the Applicable Percentage attached hereto identified as such.




“Prime Rate” means the rate of interest per annum established by Barclays in
New York, New York, from time to time, as Barclays’ prime rate or base rate.




“Property” of a Person means any and all property, whether real, personal,
tangible, intangible, or mixed, of such Person, or other assets owned by such Person.




“Pro Rata Share” means, with respect to a Lender, a portion equal to a fraction
the numerator of which is such Lender’s Commitment and the denominator of which is the
aggregate of all the Lenders’ Commitments; provided that, in the case of Section
2.17 when a Defaulting Lender shall exist (other than, for purposes of clarity, a Lender
that is attempting to cure its “Defaulting Lender” status pursuant to the last sentence of
Section 2.17), “Pro Rata Share” shall mean a portion equal to a fraction the numerator of
which is such Lender’s Commitment and the denominator of which is the aggregate of all the
Lender’s Commitments (disregarding any such Defaulting Lender’s Commitment). If the
Commitment has terminated or expired, the Pro Rata Shares shall be determined based upon the
Commitments most recently in effect, giving effect to any assignments and to any Lender’s
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“Receivables Purchase Documents” means those documents entered into in
connection with any series of receivables purchase or sale agreements generally consistent
with terms contained in comparable structured finance transactions pursuant to which the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, in their respective capacities as sellers or
transferors of any receivables, sell or transfer to SPCs all of their respective rights,
title and interest in and to certain receivables for further sale or transfer to other
purchasers of or investors in such assets (and the other documents, instruments and
agreements executed in connection therewith), as any such agreements may be amended,
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, or any replacement or
substitution therefor.




“Receivables Purchase Facility” means any securitization facility made
available to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, pursuant to which receivables of the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries are transferred to one or more SPCs, and thereafter to
certain investors, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Receivables Purchase
Documents.




“Reference Banks” means Citibank, N.A., Barclays, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and
their respective successors.




“Register” has the meaning specified in Section 8.07(d).




“Required Lenders” means, subject to Section 2.17, at any time, Lenders owed
more than fifty percent (50%) of the then-aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Revolving
Credit Advances owing to the Lenders, or, if no such principal amount is then outstanding,
Lenders having more than fifty percent (50%) of the Commitments.




“Revolving Credit Advance” means an advance by a Lender to the Borrower as part
of a Borrowing, and refers to a Base Rate Advance or a Eurodollar Rate Advance (each of
which shall be a “Type” of Revolving Credit Advance).




“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a Standard &Poor’s Financial
Services LLC business, and any successor thereto.




“S&P Rating” is defined in the Pricing Schedule.




“SEC Reports” means the following reports and financial statements:




(i) the Borrower’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
2010, as filed with or sent to the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the
Audited Statements of the Borrower;




(ii) the Borrower’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March
31, 2011 and June 30, 2011, in each case, as filed with or sent to the Securities
and Exchange Commission; and




(iii) the Identified Reports on Form 8-K.




“Service” means Reuters Monitor Money Rate Service.


 


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“Securitization Bonds” means Debt of one or more Securitization SPEs, issued
pursuant to The Customer Choice and Electricity Reliability Act, Act No. 142, Public Acts of
Michigan, 2000, as the same may be amended from time to time.




“Securitization SPE” means an entity established or to be established by the
Borrower for the purpose of issuing Securitization Bonds and includes The Detroit Edison
Securitization Funding LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the
State of Michigan.




“Significant Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower (A) the total
assets (after intercompany eliminations) of which exceed 30% of the total assets of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries or (B) the net worth of which exceeds 30% of the Consolidated
Net Worth, in each case as shown on the audited Consolidated financial statements of the
Borrower as of the end of the fiscal year immediately preceding the date of determination.




“Single Employer Plan” means a single employer plan, as defined in Section
4001(a)(15) of ERISA, that (a) is maintained for employees of the Borrower or any ERISA
Affiliate and no Person other than the Borrower and the ERISA Affiliates or (b) was so
maintained and in respect of which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate could have liability
under Section 4069 of ERISA in the event such plan has been or were to be terminated.




“SPC” means any special purpose entity established for the purpose of
purchasing receivables in connection with a receivables securitization transaction permitted
under the terms of this Agreement.




“SPV” has the meaning specified in Section 8.07(h).




“Subsidiary” of any Person means any corporation, partnership, joint venture,
limited liability company, trust or estate of which (or in which) more than 50% of (a) the
issued and outstanding capital stock having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the
Board of Directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether at the time capital stock of
any other class or classes of such corporation shall or might have voting power upon the
occurrence of any contingency), (b) the interest in the capital or profits of such limited
liability company, partnership or joint venture or (c) the beneficial interest in such trust
or estate is at the time directly owned or controlled by such Person, by such Person and one
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“Taxes” has the meaning specified in Section 2.13(a).




“Terminating Agreements” means, collectively, (a) that certain Amended and
Restated Two-Year Credit Agreement, dated as of August 20,2010, by and among Borrower, the
financial institutions from time to time parties thereto as lenders, Barclays, as
Administrative Agent, and Citibank, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, and JPMorgan Chase Bank,
N.A., as Co-Syndication Agents, as amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified
from time to time, (b) that certain Amended and Restated Two-Year
Credit Agreement, dated as of August 20, 2010, by and among DTE Energy, as borrower,
the financial institutions from time to time parties thereto as lenders, Citibank, N.A., as
Administrative Agent, and Barclays, The Bank of Nova Scotia and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.,
as Co-Syndication Agents, as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time
to time, and (c) that certain Amended and Restated Two-Year Credit Agreement, dated as of
August 20, 2010, by and among MichCon, as borrower, the financial institutions from time to
time parties thereto as lenders, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and
Barclays, Bank of America N.A. and Citibank, N.A., as Co-Syndication Agents, as amended,
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.




“Termination Date” means the earlier of (a) October 21, 2016, and (b) the date
of termination in whole of the Commitments pursuant to Section 2.04 or 6.01.




“Total Funded Debt” means all Funded Debt of the Borrower and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, as determined in accordance with GAAP.




“Voting Stock” means capital stock issued by a corporation, or equivalent
interests in any other Person, the holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of
contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar
functions) of such Person, even if the right so to vote has been suspended by the happening
of such a contingency.




“Withdrawal Liability” has the meaning specified in Part I of Subtitle E of
Title IV of ERISA.



SECTION 1.02. Computation of Time Periods. In this Agreement in the computation of
periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” means “from and
including” and the words “to” and “until” each mean “to but excluding”.



SECTION 1.03. Accounting Terms. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all
terms of an accounting or financial nature shall be construed in accordance with GAAP, as in effect
from time to time; provided that, if the Borrower notifies the Agent that the Borrower
requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring after
the date hereof in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of such provision (or if the
Agent notifies the Borrower that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any provision hereof
for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in
GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP
as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such
notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith. Notwithstanding
any other provision contained herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein
shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to herein shall be made
without giving effect to any election under Accounting Standards Codification 825-10-25 (formerly
referred to as Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 159) (or any other Financial Accounting
Standard having a similar result or effect) to value any Debt or other liabilities of DTE Energy or
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SECTION 1.04. Amendment and Restatement of the Existing Credit Agreement.



 The parties to this Agreement agree that, upon (i) the execution and delivery by each of the
parties hereto of this Agreement and (ii) satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 3.01,
the terms and provisions of the Existing Credit Agreement shall be and hereby are amended,
superseded and restated in their entirety by the terms and provisions of this Agreement. This
Agreement is not intended to and shall not constitute a novation. All loans made and obligations
incurred under the Existing Credit Agreement which are outstanding on the Effective Date shall
continue as Obligations under (and shall be governed by the terms of) this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents. Without limiting the foregoing, upon the effectiveness hereof: (a) all references
in the “Loan Documents” (as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement) to the “Agent”, the “Credit
Agreement” and the “Loan Documents” shall be deemed to refer to the Agent, this Agreement and the
Loan Documents, (b) all obligations constituting “Obligations” with any Lender or any Affiliate of
any Lender which are outstanding on the Effective Date shall continue as Obligations under this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (c) the Agent shall make such reallocations, sales,
assignments or other relevant actions in respect of each Lender’s credit and loan exposure under
the Existing Credit Agreement as are necessary in order that each such Lender’s outstanding
Revolving Credit Advances hereunder reflect such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the outstanding
aggregate Revolving Credit Advances on the Effective Date, (d) the Existing Revolving Credit
Advances (as defined in Section 2.01) of each Departing Lender shall be repaid in full (accompanied
by any accrued and unpaid interest and fees thereon), each Departing Lender’s “Commitment” under
the Existing Credit Agreement shall be terminated and each Departing Lender shall not be a Lender
hereunder, and (e) the Borrower hereby agrees to compensate each Lender (including each Departing
Lender) for any and all losses, costs and expenses incurred by such Lender in connection with the
sale and assignment of any Eurodollar Rate Advances (including the “Eurodollar Rate Advances” under
the Existing Credit Agreement) and such reallocation described above, in each case on the terms and
in the manner set forth in Section 8.04(c) hereof.



ARTICLE II




AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF THE REVOLVING CREDIT ADVANCES




SECTION 2.01. Commitment. Each Lender severally agrees, on the terms and conditions
hereinafter set forth, to make Revolving Credit Advances to the Borrower from time to time on any
Business Day during the period from the Effective Date until the Termination Date in an aggregate
amount not to exceed at any time outstanding such Lender’s Commitment. Each Borrowing shall be in
an aggregate amount of $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, or the
remaining balance of Commitments available for a Borrowing, if such balance is less than
$5,000,000, and shall consist of Revolving Credit Advances of the same Type made on the same day by
the Lenders ratably according to their respective Commitments. Within the limits of each Lender’s
Commitment, the Borrower may borrow under this Section 2.01, prepay pursuant to Section 2.09 and
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SECTION 2.02. Making the Revolving Credit Advances.



(a) Each Borrowing shall be made on notice, given not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City
time) on the third Business Day prior to the date of the proposed Borrowing in the case of a
Borrowing consisting of Eurodollar Rate Advances, or 10:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the
Business Day of the proposed Borrowing in the case of a Borrowing consisting of Base Rate
Advances, by the Borrower to the Agent, which shall give to each Lender prompt notice thereof by
telecopier or telex. Each such notice of a Borrowing (a “Notice of Borrowing”) shall be
by telephone, confirmed immediately in writing signed by a Financial Officer in substantially the
form of Exhibit B hereto, specifying therein the requested (i) date of such Borrowing, (ii) Type
of Revolving Credit Advances comprising such Borrowing, (iii) aggregate amount of such Borrowing,
(iv) in the case of a Borrowing consisting of Eurodollar Rate Advances, initial Interest Period
for each such Revolving Credit Advance and (v) wire transfer instructions. Each Lender shall,
before 12:00 noon (New York City time) on the date of such Borrowing, make available for the
account of its Applicable Lending Office to the Agent at the Agent’s Account, in same day funds,
such Lender’s ratable portion of such Borrowing. After the Agent’s receipt of such funds and upon
fulfillment of the applicable conditions set forth in Article III, the Agent will make such funds
available to the Borrower as specified in the Notice of Borrowing.



(b) Anything in subsection (a) above to the contrary notwithstanding, (i) the Borrower may
not select Eurodollar Rate Advances for any Borrowing if the aggregate amount of such Borrowing is
less than $5,000,000 or if the obligation of the Lenders to make Eurodollar Rate Advances shall
then be suspended pursuant to Section 2.07 or 2.11(a) and (ii) at no time shall the aggregate
number of all Borrowings comprising Eurodollar Rate Advances outstanding hereunder be greater than
ten.



(c) Each Notice of Borrowing shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower. In the case
of any Borrowing that the related Notice of Borrowing specifies is to be comprised of Eurodollar
Rate Advances, the Borrower shall indemnify each Lender against any loss, cost or expense incurred
by such Lender as a result of any failure to fulfill on or before the date specified in such
Notice of Borrowing for such Borrowing the applicable conditions set forth in Article III,
including, without limitation, any loss (excluding loss of anticipated profits), cost or expense
incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other funds acquired by such
Lender to fund the Revolving Credit Advance to be made by such Lender as part of such Borrowing
when such Revolving Credit Advance, as a result of such failure, is not made on such date.



(d) Unless the Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the time of any
Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Agent such Lender’s ratable portion of
such Borrowing, the Agent may assume that such Lender has made such portion available to the Agent
on the date of such Borrowing in accordance with subsection (a) of this Section 2.02 and the Agent
may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower on such date a corresponding
amount. If and to the extent that such Lender shall not have so made such ratable portion
available to the Agent, such Lender and the Borrower severally agree to repay to the Agent
forthwith on demand such corresponding amount together with interest thereon, for each day from
the date such amount is made available to the Borrower
until the date such amount is repaid to the Agent, at (i) in the case of the Borrower, the
interest rate applicable at the time to Revolving Credit Advances comprising such Borrowing and
(ii) in the case of such Lender, the Federal Funds Rate. If such Lender shall repay to the Agent
such corresponding amount, such amount so repaid shall constitute such Lender’s Revolving Credit
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(e) The failure of any Lender to make the Revolving Credit Advance to be made by it as part
of any Borrowing shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligation, if any, hereunder to make
its Revolving Credit Advance on the date of such Borrowing, but no Lender shall be responsible for
the failure of any other Lender to make the Revolving Credit Advance to be made by such other
Lender on the date of any Borrowing.




SECTION 2.03. Fees.



(a) Facility Fee. The Borrower agrees to pay to the Agent for the account of each
Lender a facility fee (the “Facility Fee”) on the aggregate amount of such Lender’s
Commitment from the date hereof in the case of each Initial Lender and from the effective date
specified in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which it became a Lender in the case of
each other Lender until all of the Obligations have been paid in full and the Commitments under
this Agreement have been terminated at a rate per annum equal to the Applicable Percentage in
effect from time to time, payable in arrears quarterly on the last Business Day of each March,
June, September and December, and on the Termination Date.



(b) Agent’s Fees. The Borrower shall pay to the Agent for its own account such fees
as may from time to time be agreed between the Borrower and the Agent.



SECTION 2.04. Termination or Reduction of the Commitments; Increase of the
Commitments.




(a) The Commitments shall be automatically terminated on the Termination Date.



(b) The Borrower shall have the right, upon at least three Business Days’ notice to the
Agent, to terminate in whole or reduce ratably in part the unused portions of the respective
Commitments of the Lenders, provided that each partial reduction shall be in the aggregate
amount of $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, or the remaining
balance, if less than $5,000,000. Once terminated, a Commitment or portion thereof may not be
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(c) At any time prior to the Termination Date the Borrower may, on the terms set forth below,
request that the Commitments hereunder be increased; provided, however, that (i)
an increase in the Commitments hereunder may only be made at a time when no Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, (ii) the “Commitments” under each of the DTE Credit Agreement and the
MichCon Credit Agreement (as such term is defined in each of the respective Credit Agreements)
must be simultaneously increased by a ratable portion (in proportion to the aggregate
“Commitments” under each such Credit Agreement (as such term is defined in each of the respective
Credit Agreements)) pursuant to and in accordance with Section 2.04(c) of each thereof, and (iii)
in no event shall the aggregate “Commitments” under

all Credit Agreements (as such term is defined in each of the respective Credit Agreements)
(x) exceed $2,000,000,000, or (y) be increased pursuant to Section 2.04(c) of each Credit
Agreement by an aggregate amount in excess of $200,000,000. In the event of such a requested
increase in the Commitments, any Lender or other financial institution which the Borrower and the
Agent invite to become a Lender or to increase its Commitment may set the amount of its Commitment
at a level agreed to by the Borrower and the Agent. In the event that the Borrower and one or
more of the Lenders (or other financial institutions) shall agree upon such an increase in the
Commitments (i) the Borrower, the Agent and each Lender or other financial institution increasing
its Commitment or extending a new Commitment shall enter into a supplement to this Agreement
(each, a “Lender Supplement”) substantially in the form of Exhibit G setting
forth, among other things, the amount of the increased Commitment of such Lender or the new
Commitment of such other financial institution, as applicable, and (ii) the Borrower shall
furnish, if requested, new or amended and restated Notes, as applicable, to each financial
institution that is extending a new Commitment and each Lender that is increasing its Commitment.
No such Lender Supplement shall require the approval or consent of any Lender whose Commitment is
not being increased. Upon the execution and delivery of such Lender Supplements as provided above
and the occurrence of the “Effective Date” specified therein, and upon satisfaction of such other
conditions as the Agent may reasonably specify, the financial institutions that are extending new
Commitments and the Lenders that are increasing their Commitments (including, without limitation,
the Agent administering the reallocation of the aggregate Revolving Credit Advances ratably among
the Lenders after giving effect to each such increase in the Commitments, and the delivery of
certificates, evidence of corporate authority and legal opinions on behalf of the Borrower), this
Agreement shall be deemed to be amended accordingly.



SECTION 2.05. Repayment of Revolving Credit Advances. The Borrower shall repay to the
Agent for the ratable account of the Lenders on the Termination Date the aggregate principal amount
of the Revolving Credit Advances then outstanding and all other unpaid Obligations.




SECTION 2.06. Interest on Revolving Credit Advances.



(a) Scheduled Interest. The Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid principal
amount of each Revolving Credit Advance owing to each Lender from the date of such Revolving
Credit Advance until such principal amount shall be paid in full, at the following rates per
annum:




(i) Base Rate Advances. During such periods as such Revolving Credit
Advance is a Base Rate Advance, a rate per annum equal at all times to the sum of
(x) the Base Rate in effect from time to time plus (y) the Applicable Margin
in effect from time to time, payable in arrears quarterly on the last Business Day
of each March, June, September and December during such periods and on the date such
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(ii) Eurodollar Rate Advances. During such periods as such Revolving
Credit Advance is a Eurodollar Rate Advance, a rate per annum equal at all times
during each Interest Period for such Revolving Credit Advance to the sum of (x)
the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period for such Revolving Credit Advance
plus (y) the Applicable Margin in effect from time to time, payable in
arrears on the last day of such Interest Period and, if such Interest Period has a
duration of more than three months, on each day that occurs during such Interest
Period every three months from the first day of such Interest Period and on the date
such Eurodollar Rate Advance shall be Converted or paid in full.



(b) Default Interest. (i) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event
of Default, the Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Revolving
Credit Advance owing to each Lender, payable in arrears on the dates referred to in clause (a)(i)
or (a)(ii) above, at a rate per annum equal at all times to 2% per annum above the rate per annum
required to be paid on such Revolving Credit Advance pursuant to clause (a)(i) or (a)(ii) above,
and (ii) the Borrower shall pay, to the fullest extent permitted by law, interest on the amount of
any interest, fee or other amount payable hereunder that is not paid when due, from the date such
amount shall be due until such amount shall be paid in full, payable in arrears on the date such
amount shall be paid in full and on demand, at a rate per annum equal at all times to 2% per annum
above the rate per annum required to be paid on Base Rate Advances pursuant to clause (a)(i)
above.




SECTION 2.07. Interest Rate Determination.



(a) If applicable, each Reference Bank agrees to furnish to the Agent timely information for
the purpose of determining each Eurodollar Rate. If any one or more of the Reference Banks shall
not furnish such timely information to the Agent for the purpose of determining any such interest
rate, the Agent shall determine such interest rate on the basis of timely information furnished by
the remaining Reference Banks. The Agent shall give prompt notice to the Borrower and the Lenders
of the applicable interest rate determined by the Agent for purposes of Section 2.06(a)(i) or
(ii), and the rate, if any, furnished by each Reference Bank for the purpose of determining the
interest rate under Section 2.06(a)(ii).



(b) If, with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Advances, the Required Lenders notify the Agent
that the Eurodollar Rate for any Interest Period for such Eurodollar Rate Advances will not
adequately reflect the cost to such Required Lenders of making, funding or maintaining their
respective Eurodollar Rate Advances for such Interest Period, the Agent shall forthwith so notify
the Borrower and the Lenders, whereupon (i) each Eurodollar Rate Advance will automatically, on
the last day of the then existing Interest Period therefor, Convert into a Base Rate Advance, and
(ii) the obligation of the Lenders to make, or to Convert Revolving Credit Advances into,
Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be suspended until the Agent shall notify the Borrower and the
Lenders that the circumstances causing such suspension no longer exist.



(c) If the Borrower shall fail to select the duration of any Interest Period for any
Eurodollar Rate Advances in accordance with the provisions contained in the definition of
“Interest Period” in Section 1.01, the Agent will forthwith so notify the Borrower and the Lenders
and such Eurodollar Rate Advances will automatically, on the last day of the then existing
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(d) On the date on which the aggregate unpaid principal amount of Eurodollar Rate Advances
comprising any Borrowing shall be reduced, by payment or prepayment or otherwise, to less than
$5,000,000, such Eurodollar Rate Advances shall automatically Convert into Base Rate Advances.



(e) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, (i) each
Eurodollar Rate Advance will automatically, on the last day of the then existing Interest Period
therefor, Convert into a Base Rate Advance and (ii) the obligation of the Lenders to make, or to
Convert Revolving Credit Advances into, Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be suspended.



(f) If the Service is not available or a rate does not timely appear on the Service and fewer
than two Reference Banks furnish timely information to the Agent for determining the Eurodollar
Rate for any Eurodollar Rate Advances:




(i) the Agent shall forthwith notify the Borrower and the Lenders that the
interest rate cannot be determined for such Eurodollar Rate Advances,




(ii) with respect to Eurodollar Rate Advances, each such Eurodollar Rate
Advance will automatically, on the last day of the then existing Interest Period
therefor, Convert into a Base Rate Advance (or if such Advance is then a Base Rate
Advance, will continue as a Base Rate Advance), and




(iii) the obligation of the Lenders to make Eurodollar Rate Advances or to
Convert Revolving Credit Advances into Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be suspended
until the Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances
causing such suspension no longer exist.



SECTION 2.08. Optional Conversion of Revolving Credit Advances. The Borrower may on
any Business Day, upon notice given to the Agent not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on
the third Business Day prior to the date of the proposed Conversion and subject to the provisions
of Sections 2.07 and 2.11(a), Convert all Revolving Credit Advances of one Type comprising the same
Borrowing into Revolving Credit Advances of the other Type (it being understood that such
Conversion of a Revolving Credit Advance or of its Interest Period does not constitute a repayment
or prepayment of such Revolving Credit Advance); provided, however, that any
Conversion of Eurodollar Rate Advances into Base Rate Advances shall be made only on the last day
of an Interest Period for such Eurodollar Rate Advances, any Conversion of Base Rate Advances into
Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be in an amount not less than the minimum amount specified in
Section 2.02(b) and no Conversion of any Revolving Credit Advances shall result in more separate
Borrowings than permitted under Section 2.02(b). Each such notice of a Conversion shall be
substantially in the form of Exhibit H hereto, and shall, within the restrictions specified
above, specify (i) the date of such Conversion, (ii) the Revolving Credit Advances to be Converted,
and (iii) if such Conversion is into Eurodollar Rate Advances, the duration of the initial Interest
Period for each such Eurodollar Rate Advance. Each notice of Conversion shall be irrevocable and
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SECTION 2.09. Prepayments of Revolving Credit Advances.



(a) Optional Prepayment. The Borrower may on any Business Day, upon notice given to
the Agent substantially in the form of Exhibit I hereto, not later than 11:00 A.M. (New
York City time), (i) on the same day for Base Rate Advances and (ii) on the third Business Day
prior to the prepayment in the case of Eurodollar Rate Advances stating the proposed date and
aggregate principal amount of the prepayment (and if such notice is given the Borrower shall)
prepay the outstanding principal amount of the Revolving Credit Advances comprising part of the
same Borrowing in whole or ratably in part, together with accrued interest to the date of such
prepayment on the principal amount prepaid; provided, however, that (x) each
partial prepayment shall be in an aggregate principal amount of $5,000,000 or an integral multiple
of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, or the remaining balance, if less than $5,000,000, and (y) in the
event of any such prepayment of a Eurodollar Rate Advance, the Borrower shall be obligated to
reimburse the Lenders in respect thereof pursuant to Section 8.04(c).



(b) Mandatory Prepayment. The Borrower shall, upon five Business Days’ notice from
the Agent given at the request or with the consent of the Required Lenders, prepay the aggregate
outstanding principal amount of all Revolving Credit Advances plus all interest thereon
and all other amounts payable hereunder or under the Notes, in the event that any Person or two or
more Persons acting in concert (other than DTE Energy or any of its Subsidiaries) shall have
acquired beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 of the Securities and Exchange
Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934), directly or indirectly, of Voting Stock of
the Borrower (or other securities convertible into such Voting Stock) representing 30% or more of
the combined voting power of all Voting Stock of the Borrower.




SECTION 2.10. Increased Costs.



(a) If, due to either (i) the introduction of or any change in or in the interpretation of
any law or regulation or (ii) the compliance with any guideline or request from any central bank
or other Governmental Authority (whether or not having the force of law), there shall be any
increase in the cost to any Person of agreeing to make or making, funding or maintaining Revolving
Credit Advances, including as a result of any tax, levy, impost, deduction, fee, assessment, duty,
charge or withholding, and all liabilities with respect thereto, imposed on its loans, loan
principal, commitments, or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or
capital attributable thereto, excluding for purposes of this Section 2.10 any such increased costs
resulting from Taxes, amounts excluded from Taxes pursuant to Section 2.13, and Other Taxes, then
the Borrower shall from time to time, upon demand by such Person (with a copy of such demand to
the Agent), pay to the Agent on its own account or for the account of such Person, as applicable,
additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Person, for such increased cost. A certificate
as to the amount of such increased cost, submitted to the Borrower and the Agent by such Person,
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(b) If any Lender determines that compliance with any law or regulation or any guideline or
request from any central bank or other Governmental Authority (whether or not having the force of
law) affects or would affect the amount of capital required or expected to be
maintained by such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender and that the amount of
such capital is increased by or based upon the existence of such Lender’s commitment to lend
hereunder and other commitments of this type, then, upon demand by such Lender (with a copy of
such demand to the Agent), the Borrower shall pay to the Agent for the account of such Lender,
from time to time as specified by such Lender, additional amounts sufficient to compensate such
Lender or such corporation in the light of such circumstances, to the extent that such Lender
reasonably determines such increase in capital to be allocable to the existence of such Lender’s
commitment to lend hereunder. A certificate as to such amounts submitted to the Borrower and the
Agent by such Lender shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.



(c) In the event that a Lender demands payment from the Borrower for amounts owing pursuant
to subsection (a) or (b) of this Section 2.10, the Borrower may, upon payment of such amounts and
subject to the requirements of Sections 8.04 and 8.07, substitute for such Lender another
financial institution, which financial institution shall be an Eligible Assignee and shall assume
the Commitments of such Lender and purchase the Revolving Credit Advances held by such Lender in
accordance with Section 8.07, provided, however, that (i) no Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, (ii) the Borrower shall have satisfied all of its obligations in
connection with the Loan Documents with respect to such Lender, and (iii) if such assignee is not
a Lender, (A) such assignee is acceptable to the Agent and (B) the Borrower shall have paid the
Agent a $3,500 administrative fee.



(d) If any Lender requests compensation under this Section 2.10, then such Lender shall, if
requested by the Borrower, use reasonable efforts to designate a different Applicable Lending
Office for funding or booking its Revolving Credit Advances hereunder or to assign its rights and
obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of
such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant
to this Section 2.10 in the future and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost
or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender. The Borrower hereby agrees
to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such
designation or assignment.



(e) For purposes of this Section 2.10, and notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary,
(i) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules,
requirements, guidelines and directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith or in
implementation thereof and (ii) all requests, rules, guidelines, requirements and directives
promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
(or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in
each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to have been enacted, adopted and
issued after the date hereof, regardless of the date enacted, adopted, issued or implemented.



(f) Failure or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation pursuant to this
Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s right to demand such compensation;
provided that, the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to this
Section for any increased costs incurred more than 270 days prior to the date that such Lender
notifies the Borrower of the circumstances giving rise to such increased costs
and of such Lender’s intention to claim compensation therefor; provided
further that, if the circumstance giving rise to such increased costs is retroactive, then
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SECTION 2.11. Illegality.



(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if any Lender shall notify the
Agent that the introduction of or any change in or in the interpretation of any law or regulation
makes it unlawful, or any central bank or other Governmental Authority asserts that it is
unlawful, for any Lender or its Eurodollar Lending Office to perform its obligations hereunder to
make Eurodollar Rate Advances or to fund or maintain Eurodollar Rate Advances hereunder, (i) each
Eurodollar Rate Advance will automatically, upon such demand, Convert into a Base Rate Advance or
a Revolving Credit Advance that bears interest at the rate set forth in Section 2.06(a)(i), as the
case may be, and (ii) the obligation of the Lenders to make Eurodollar Rate Advances or to Convert
Revolving Credit Advances into Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be suspended until the Agent shall
notify the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances causing such suspension no longer
exist.



(b) If a Conversion occurs or the obligation of the Lenders to make Eurodollar Rate Advances
or to Convert Revolving Credit Advances into Eurodollar Rate Advances is suspended, in each case,
pursuant to Section 2.11(a), then the Lender causing such Conversion and/or suspension shall use
reasonable efforts to designate a different Applicable Lending Office for funding or booking its
Revolving Credit Advances hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another
of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation or
assignment (i) would reinstate the Lenders’ obligations to make Eurodollar Rate Advances and to
Convert Revolving Credit Advances into Eurodollar Rate Advances and (ii) would not subject such
Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such
Lender. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any
Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.




SECTION 2.12. Payments and Computations.



(a) The Borrower shall make each payment hereunder and under the Notes not later than 11:00
A.M. (New York City time) on the day when due in U.S. dollars to the Agent at the Agent’s Account
in same day funds and without set off, deduction or counterclaim other than deductions on account
of taxes. The Agent will promptly thereafter cause to be distributed like funds relating to the
payment of principal or interest or Facility Fees ratably (other than amounts payable pursuant to
Section 2.10, 2.13 or 8.04(c)) to the Lenders for the account of their respective Applicable
Lending Offices, and like funds relating to the payment of any other amount payable to any Lender
to such Lender for the account of its Applicable Lending Office, in each case to be applied in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Upon its acceptance of an Assignment and Assumption
and recording of the information contained therein in the Register pursuant to Section 8.07(c),
from and after the effective date specified in such Assignment and Assumption, the Agent shall
make all payments hereunder and under the Notes in respect of the interest assigned thereby to the
Lender assignee thereunder, and the parties to
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(b) The Borrower hereby authorizes each Lender, if and to the extent payment owed to such
Lender is not made when due hereunder or under the Note held by such Lender, to charge from time
to time against any or all of the Borrower’s accounts with such Lender any amount so due.



(c) All computations of interest based on the Base Rate, when such computations of the Base
Rate are based on the Prime Rate, shall be made by the Agent on the basis of a year of 365 or 366
days, as the case may be, and all computations of interest based on the Base Rate (other than such
computations of the Base Rate that are based on the Prime Rate), of interest based on the
Eurodollar Rate, and of the Facility Fees shall be made by the Agent on the basis of a year of 360
days, in each case, for the actual number of days (including the first day but excluding the last
day) occurring in the period for which such interest or Facility Fees are payable. Each
determination by the Agent of an interest rate hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all
purposes, absent manifest error.



(d) Whenever any payment hereunder or under the Notes shall be stated to be due on a day
other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and
such extension of time shall in such case be included in the computation of payment of interest or
Facility Fee, as the case may be; provided, however, that, if such extension would
cause payment of interest on or principal of Eurodollar Rate Advances to be made in the next
following calendar month, such payment shall be made on the next preceding Business Day.



(e) Unless the Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which
any payment is due to the Lenders hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment in full,
the Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment in full to the Agent on such date and
the Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, cause to be distributed to each Lender on such
due date an amount equal to the amount then due such Lender. If and to the extent the Borrower
shall not have so made such payment in full to the Agent, each Lender shall repay to the Agent
forthwith on demand such amount distributed to such Lender together with interest thereon, for
each day from the date such amount is distributed to such Lender until the date such Lender repays
such amount to the Agent, at the Federal Funds Rate.




SECTION 2.13. Taxes.



(a) Subject to the exclusions set forth below in this Section 2.13(a) and, if applicable,
compliance with Section 2.13(e), any and all payments by the Borrower hereunder or under the Notes
shall be made, in accordance with Section 2.12, free and clear of and without deduction for any
and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, fees, assessments, duties, charges
or withholdings, and all liabilities with respect thereto, excluding, in the case of each
Lender and the Agent, (i) any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, fees,
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taxes
imposed on it in lieu of net income taxes, (x) by the jurisdiction under the laws of which
 such Lender or the Agent (as the case may be) is organized or any political subdivision
thereof and (y), in the case of each Lender, by the jurisdiction of such Lender’s Applicable
Lending Office or any political subdivision thereof and (ii) any United States withholding taxes
imposed by FATCA (all such non-excluded taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, fees, assessments,
duties, charges, withholdings and liabilities in respect of payments hereunder or under the Notes
being hereinafter referred to as “Taxes”). Notwithstanding the above, if the Borrower
shall be required by law to deduct any Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable hereunder or
under any Note to any Lender or the Agent, the Borrower will so deduct and (i) the sum payable
shall be increased as may be necessary so that after making all such deductions on account of
Taxes (including deductions on account of Taxes applicable to additional sums payable under this
Section 2.13) such Lender or the Agent (as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it
would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the Borrower shall make such deductions
and (iii) the Borrower shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant taxation authority or
other authority in accordance with applicable law.



(b) The Borrower agrees to pay any present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other
excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies that arise from any payment made hereunder or
under the Notes or from the execution, delivery or registration of this Agreement or the Notes
(hereinafter referred to as “Other Taxes”).



(c) Without duplication of the Borrower’s payment obligations on account of Taxes or Other
Taxes pursuant to Sections 2.13(a) and (b), the Borrower shall indemnify each Lender and the Agent
for the full amount of Taxes or Other Taxes (including, without limitation, any Taxes imposed by
any jurisdiction on amounts payable under this Section 2.13) imposed on or paid by such Lender or
the Agent (as the case may be) and any liability (including penalties, interest and expenses)
arising therefrom or with respect thereto. This indemnification shall be made within 30 days from
the date such Lender or the Agent (as the case may be) makes written demand therefor.



(d) Within 30 days after the date of any payment of Taxes, the Borrower shall furnish to the
Agent, at its address referred to in Section 8.02, the original or a certified copy of a receipt
evidencing payment thereof. In the case of any payment hereunder or under the Notes by or on
behalf of the Borrower through an account or branch outside the United States or by or on behalf
of the Borrower by a payor that is not a United States person, if the Borrower determines that no
Taxes are payable in respect thereof, the Borrower shall furnish, or shall cause such payor to
furnish, to the Agent, at such address, an opinion of counsel acceptable to the Agent stating that
such payment is exempt from Taxes. For purposes of this subsection (d) and subsection (e), the
terms “United States” and “United States person” shall have the meanings specified
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(e) Each Lender organized under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the United States, on or
prior to the date of its execution and delivery of this Agreement in the case of each Initial
Lender and on the date of the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which it becomes a Lender in
the case of each other Lender, and from time to time thereafter as requested in writing by the
Borrower (but only so long as such Lender remains lawfully able to do so), shall provide each of
the Agent and the Borrower with two original Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8ECI, as
appropriate, or any successor or other form prescribed by the Internal
Revenue Service, certifying that such Lender is exempt from United States withholding tax on
payments pursuant to this Agreement or the Notes. If any form or document referred to in this
subsection (e) requires the disclosure of information, other than information necessary to compute
the tax payable and information required on the date hereof by Internal Revenue Service Form
W-8BEN or W-8ECI, that the Lender reasonably considers to be confidential, the Lender shall give
notice thereof to the Borrower and shall not be obligated to include in such form or document such
confidential information; however, such a Lender will not be entitled to any payment or
indemnification on account of any Taxes imposed by the United States.



(f) If a payment made to a Lender hereunder would be subject to United States withholding tax
imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements
of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Internal Revenue Code, as
applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and the Agent at the time or times
prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Agent such
documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of
the Internal Revenue Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower
or the Agent as may be necessary for the Borrower and the Agent to comply with their obligations
under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has or has not complied with such Lender’s
obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment.
Solely for purposes of this clause (f), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after
the date of this Agreement.



(g) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in this Agreement, the Borrower will not be
obligated to make payments on account of or indemnify the Lenders or the Agents for any present or
future taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, fees, assessments, duties, charges or withholdings, and
all liabilities with respect thereto, or any present or future stamp or other documentary taxes or
property taxes, charges or similar levies that are neither Taxes nor Other Taxes.



(h) For any period with respect to which a Lender has failed to provide the Borrower with the
appropriate form described in Section 2.13(e) (other than if such failure is due
to a change in law occurring subsequent to the date on which a form originally was required to be
provided, or if such form otherwise is not required under the first sentence of subsection (e)
above), such Lender shall not be entitled to indemnification under Section 2.13(a) or (c) with
respect to Taxes imposed by the United States by reason of such failure; provided,
however, that should a Lender become subject to Taxes because of its failure to deliver a
form required hereunder, the Borrower shall take such steps as the Lender shall reasonably request
to assist the Lender to recover such Taxes.



(i) In the event that a Lender demands payment from the Borrower for amounts owing pursuant
to subsection (a) or (b) of this Section 2.13, the Borrower may, upon payment of such amounts and
subject to the requirements of Sections 8.04 and 8.07, substitute for such Lender another
financial institution, which financial institution shall be an Eligible Assignee and shall assume
the Commitments of such Lender and purchase the Revolving Credit Advances held by such Lender in
accordance with Section 8.07, provided, however, that (i) no Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, (ii) the Borrower shall have satisfied all of its
obligations in connection with the Loan Documents with respect to such Lender, and (iii) if
such assignee is not a Lender, (A) such assignee is acceptable to the Agent and (B) the Borrower
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(j) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in this Agreement, in the event that a
Lender that is not an Initial Lender and who purchased its interest in this Agreement without the
consent of the Borrower pursuant to Section 8.07(a), seeks (i) payment of additional amounts
pursuant to Section 2.13(a), (ii) payment of Other Taxes pursuant to Section 2.13(b), or (iii)
indemnification for Taxes or Other Taxes pursuant to Section 2.13(c), the amount of any such
payment or indemnification will be no greater than what it would have been had the Initial Lender
not transferred, assigned or sold its interest in this Agreement.



(k) If the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any
Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to this Section 2.13, then such
Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different Applicable Lending Office for funding
or booking its Revolving Credit Advances hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations
hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender,
such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to this
Section 2.13 in the future and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or
expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender. The Borrower hereby agrees to
pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such
designation or assignment.



(l) Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Agent for any taxes, levies, imposts,
deductions, fees, assessments, duties, charges or withholdings, and all liabilities with respect
thereto, (but, in the case of any Taxes or Other Taxes, only to the extent that the Borrower has
not already indemnified the Agent for such Taxes or Other Taxes and without limiting the
obligation of the Borrower to do so) attributable to such Lender that are paid or payable by the
Agent in connection with this Agreement and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with
respect thereto, whether or not such amounts were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the
relevant Governmental Authority. The indemnity under this Section 2.13(l) shall be paid within 30
days after the Agent delivers to the applicable Lender a certificate stating the amount so paid or
payable by the Agent. Such certificate shall be conclusive of the amount so paid or payable
absent manifest error.



SECTION 2.14. Sharing of Payments, Etc. If any Lender shall obtain any payment
(whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right of set-off, or otherwise) on
account of the Revolving Credit Advances owing to it (other than pursuant to Section 2.10, 2.13 or
8.04(c)) in excess of its ratable share of payments on account of the Revolving Credit Advances
obtained by all of the Lenders, such Lender shall forthwith purchase from the other Lenders such
participations in the Revolving Credit Advances owing to them as shall be necessary to cause such
purchasing Lender to share the excess payment ratably with each of them; provided,
however, that if all or any portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from
such purchasing Lender, such purchase from each Lender shall be rescinded and such Lender shall
repay to the purchasing Lender the purchase price to the extent of such recovery together with an
amount equal to such Lender’s ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such
Lender’s required repayment to (ii) the total amount so
recovered from the purchasing Lender) of any interest or other amount paid or payable by the
purchasing Lender in respect of the total amount so recovered. The Borrower agrees that any Lender
so purchasing a participation from another Lender pursuant to this Section 2.14 may, to the fullest
extent permitted by law, exercise all its rights of payment (including the right of set-off) with
respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were the direct creditor of the Borrower
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SECTION 2.15. Use of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Revolving Credit Advances shall be
available (and the Borrower agrees that it shall use such proceeds) solely for refinancing Debt of
the Borrower under the Existing Credit Agreement (if any), and for general corporate purposes,
including commercial paper liquidity, of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.




SECTION 2.16. Noteless Agreement; Evidence of Indebtedness.



(a) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts
evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Revolving Credit
Advance made by such Lender from time to time, including the amounts of principal and interest
payable and paid to such Lender from time to time hereunder.



(b) The Agent shall also maintain accounts in which it will record (i) the date and the
amount of each Revolving Credit Advance made hereunder and the Interest Period, if any, applicable
thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable
from the Borrower to each Lender hereunder, (iii) the effective date and amount of each Assignment
and Assumption delivered to and accepted by it and the parties thereto pursuant to Section 8.07,
(iv) the amount of any sum received by the Agent hereunder from the Borrower and each Lender’s
share thereof, and (v) all other appropriate debits and credits as provided in this Agreement,
including, without limitation, all fees, charges, expenses and interest.



(c) The entries maintained in the accounts maintained pursuant to clauses (a) and (b) above
shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations hereunder and under
the Notes therein recorded; provided, however, that the failure of the Agent or
any Lender to maintain such accounts or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the
obligation of the Borrower to repay such obligations in accordance with their terms.



(d) Any Lender may request that its Revolving Credit Advances be evidenced by a promissory
note representing its Revolving Credit Advances substantially in the form of Exhibit A (each, a
“Note”). In such event, the Borrower shall prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender
such Note payable to the order of such Lender. Thereafter, the Revolving Credit Advances
evidenced by each such Note and interest thereon shall at all times (including after any
assignment pursuant to Section 8.07) be represented by one or more Notes payable to the order of
the payee named therein or any assignee pursuant to Section 8.07, except to the extent that any
such Lender or assignee subsequently returns any such Note for cancellation and requests that such
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SECTION 2.17. Defaulting Lenders. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if any Lender becomes a
Defaulting Lender, then the following provisions shall apply for so long as such Lender is a
Defaulting Lender:



(a) fees shall cease to accrue on the unfunded portion of the Commitment of such Defaulting
Lender pursuant to Section 2.03(a);



(b) the Commitment and Revolving Credit Advances of such Defaulting Lender shall not be
included in determining whether the Required Lenders have taken or may take any action hereunder
(including any consent to any amendment or waiver pursuant to Section 8.01, other than those which
require the consent of all Lenders or of each affected Lender);



(c) the Borrower may, subject to the requirements of Sections 8.04 and 8.07, substitute for
such Defaulting Lender another financial institution, which financial institution shall be an
Eligible Assignee and shall assume the Commitments of such Defaulting Lender and purchase the
Revolving Credit Advances held by such Defaulting Lender in accordance with Section 8.07;
provided, however, that (i) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (ii)
the Borrower shall have satisfied all of its obligations in connection with the Loan Documents with
respect to such Defaulting Lender, and (iii) if such assignee is not a Lender, (A) such assignee is
acceptable to the Agent and (B) the Borrower shall have paid the Agent a $3,500 administrative fee;



(d) to the extent the Agent receives any payments or other amounts for the account of a
Defaulting Lender under the Loan Documents, such Defaulting Lender shall be deemed to have
requested that the Agent use such payment or other amount to fulfill such Defaulting Lender’s
previously unsatisfied obligations to fund a Revolving Credit Advance or any other unfunded payment
obligation of such Defaulting Lender under Section 2.02(d), 2.12(e) or 7.05;



(e) no Lender shall be deemed to have consented to increase its Commitment pursuant to Section
2.04(c) unless that Lender shall have affirmatively given consent in accordance with that Section;
and



(f) for the avoidance of doubt, the Borrower shall retain and reserve its other rights and
remedies respecting each Defaulting Lender.



In the event that the Agent and the Borrower each agrees that a Defaulting Lender has adequately
remedied all matters that caused such Lender to be a Defaulting Lender, such Lender shall purchase
at par on a ratable basis such of the Revolving Credit Advances of the other Lenders as the Agent
shall determine may be necessary in order for such Lender to hold such Revolving Credit Advances in
accordance with its Pro Rata Share, whereupon such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender.
For the purposes of clarity, in the event any Defaulting Lender is reinstated as a non-Defaulting
Lender in accordance with the terms hereof (i) no adjustments will be made retroactively with
respect to fees accrued or payments made by or on behalf of the Borrower while such Lender was a
Defaulting Lender, and (ii) except to the extent otherwise expressly
agreed by the affected parties, such reinstatement shall not constitute a waiver or release of any
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ARTICLE III:




CONDITIONS TO EFFECTIVENESS AND LENDING




SECTION 3.01. Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness of this Agreement. This Agreement
shall become effective on and as of the date hereof (the “Effective Date”),
provided that the following conditions precedent have been satisfied on such date:



(a) There shall have occurred (i) no Material Adverse Change since December 31, 2010, except
as shall have been disclosed or contemplated in the SEC Reports, and (ii) no material adverse
change in the primary or secondary loan syndication markets or capital markets generally that makes
it impracticable to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents.



(b) The Lenders shall have been given such access, as such Lenders have reasonably requested,
to the management, records, books of account, contracts and properties of the Borrower and its
Significant Subsidiaries as they shall have requested.



(c) All governmental and third party consents, authorizations and approvals necessary in
connection with the transactions contemplated hereby shall have been obtained (without the
imposition of any conditions that are not acceptable to the Lenders) and shall remain in effect,
and no law or regulation shall be applicable in the reasonable judgment of the Agents that
restrains, prevents or imposes materially adverse conditions upon the transactions contemplated by
the Loan Documents.



(d) The Borrower shall have notified each Lender and the Agent in writing as to the proposed
Effective Date.



(e) The Borrower shall have paid all accrued fees and reasonable expenses due and payable to
the Agents, the Lenders and the Arrangers on or prior to the Effective Date, including, to the
extent invoiced, reimbursements or payment of all out-of-pocket expenses required to be reimbursed
or paid by the Borrower hereunder.



(f) On the Effective Date, the following statements shall be true and the Agent shall have
received for the account of each Lender a certificate, substantially in the form of Exhibit D
hereto, signed on behalf of the Borrower by a duly authorized Financial Officer of the Borrower,
dated the Effective Date, stating, among other things, that:



(i) The representations and warranties contained in Section 4.01 are correct on and as of the
Effective Date, and



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(g) The Agent shall have received on or before the Effective Date the following, each dated
such day, in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent and (except for any Notes requested by
the Lenders) in sufficient copies for each Lender:




(i) Counterpart signature pages of this Agreement, executed by each of the parties hereto.



(ii) Notes, if any, to the order of each Lender requesting the issuance of a Note as of the
Effective Date pursuant to Section 2.16.



(iii) Certified copies of the resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Borrower approving
each Loan Document to which it is a party, and of all documents evidencing other necessary
corporate action and governmental approvals, if any, with respect to each Loan Document to which it
is a party.



(iv) A certificate of the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Corporate Secretary of the
Borrower certifying the names and true signatures of the officers of the Borrower authorized to
sign each Loan Document to which it is a party and the other documents to be delivered hereunder or
thereunder.



(v) Favorable opinion letters of Randall Rutkofske, the General Counsel of the Borrower, and
Hunton & Williams LLP, counsel to the Borrower, substantially in the form of Exhibits E-1 and E-2,
respectively, hereto.



(vi) Evidence satisfactory to the Agent that (A) all loans and letters of credit outstanding
and other fees and amounts owed to the lenders or agents under the Terminating Agreements have been
paid in full (or, in respect of any letters of credit thereunder, (x) such letters of credit shall
have been assigned or transferred to the DTE Credit Agreement (such that each such letter of credit
shall constitute a “Facility LC” thereunder) or (y) cash collateral or other credit support in
respect thereof shall have been delivered), and (B) the Terminating Agreements have been
terminated.



SECTION 3.02. Conditions Precedent to Each Borrowing. The obligation of each Lender
to make a Revolving Credit Advance on the occasion of each Borrowing shall be subject to the
conditions precedent that the Effective Date shall have occurred and on the date of such Borrowing:
(a) the following statements shall be true (and each of the giving of the applicable Notice of
Borrowing and the acceptance by the Borrower of the proceeds of such Borrowing shall constitute a
representation and warranty by the Borrower that on the date of such Borrowing such statements are
true):




(i) the representations and warranties contained in Section 4.01 are correct on
and as of the date of such Borrowing, before and after giving effect to such
Borrowing and to the application of the proceeds therefrom, as though made on and as
of such date; provided, that such condition shall not apply to (x) the last
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(ii) after giving effect to the application of the proceeds of all Borrowings
on such date (together with any other resources of the Borrower
applied together therewith), no event has occurred and is continuing, or would
result from such Borrowing or from the application of the proceeds therefrom, that
constitutes a Default, and




(iii) the Borrower has not received notice from the Agent on or prior to the
date of such Borrowing that a mandatory prepayment is required under Section 2.09(b)
(other than any such notice that has been withdrawn in writing by the Agent);



and (b) the Agent shall have received such other approvals, opinions or documents as any Lender
through the Agent may reasonably request.



SECTION 3.03. Determinations Under Section 3.01. For purposes of determining
compliance with the conditions specified in Section 3.01, each Lender shall be deemed to have
consented to, approved or accepted or to be satisfied with each document or other matter required
thereunder to be consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to the Lenders unless an
officer of the Agent responsible for the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall have
received notice from such Lender prior to the date that the Borrower, by notice to the Lenders,
designates as the proposed Effective Date, specifying its objection thereto. The Agent shall
promptly notify the Lenders of the occurrence of the Effective Date.



ARTICLE IV:




REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES




SECTION 4.01. Representations and Warranties of the Borrower. The Borrower represents
and warrants as follows:



(a) The Borrower is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under
the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation.



(b) The execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of the Loan Documents to which it
is a party, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, are within
the Borrower’s corporate powers, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action, and
do not contravene (i) the Borrower’s charter or by-laws or (ii) law or any contractual restriction
binding on or affecting the Borrower.



(c) No consent, authorization or approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with,
any Governmental Authority or regulatory body or any other third party is required for the due
execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of any Loan Document to which it is a party,
other than the order of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, dated April 28, 2009, which has
been obtained and permits the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents and remains in full
force and effect.



(d) This Agreement has been, and each of the Notes when delivered hereunder will have been,
duly executed and delivered by the Borrower. This Agreement is, and each of the Notes when
delivered hereunder will be, the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower enforceable
against the Borrower in accordance with their respective terms, subject to the effect
of any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar law affecting
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(e) The Audited Statements of the Borrower, copies of which have been furnished to each
Lender, fairly present, in all material respects, the Consolidated financial condition, results of
operations and cash flows of the relevant Persons and entities, as at the dates and for the periods
therein indicated, all in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles consistently
applied as in effect on the date of such Audited Statements. Since December 31, 2010, there has
been no Material Adverse Change, except as shall have been disclosed or contemplated in the SEC
Reports.



(f) There is no pending or threatened action, suit, investigation, litigation or proceeding,
including, without limitation, any Environmental Action, affecting the Borrower or any of its
Significant Subsidiaries before any court, governmental agency or arbitrator that (i) could be
reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect other than the matters disclosed or
contemplated in the SEC Reports (the “Disclosed Litigation”) or (ii) purports to affect the
legality, validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby, and there has been no adverse change in the status or financial effect on the
Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries, of the Disclosed Litigation from that disclosed or
contemplated in the SEC Reports that could be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.



(g) The operations and properties of the Borrower and each of the Significant Subsidiaries
comply in all material respects with all applicable Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits,
all past non-compliance with such Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits has been resolved
without ongoing material obligations or costs, except as disclosed or contemplated in the SEC
Reports, and no circumstances exist that could be reasonably likely to (i) form the basis of an
Environmental Action against the Borrower or any of the Significant Subsidiaries or any of their
properties that could have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) cause any such property to be subject
to any restrictions on ownership, occupancy, use or transferability under any Environmental Law
that could have a Material Adverse Effect.




(h) No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur with respect to any Plan.



(i) Schedule B (Actuarial Information) to the most recent annual report (Form 5500 Series) for
each Plan, copies of which have been filed with the Internal Revenue Service, is complete and
accurate and fairly presents the funding status of such Plan, and since the date of such Schedule B
there has been no material adverse change in such funding status.



(j) Neither the Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate has incurred or is reasonably expected to
incur any Withdrawal Liability to any Multiemployer Plan.



(k) Neither the Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate has been notified by the sponsor of a
Multiemployer Plan that such Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization or has been terminated, within
the meaning of Title IV of ERISA, and no such Multiemployer Plan is
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(l) Except as set forth in the financial statements referred to in subsection (e) above, the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries have no material liability with respect to “expected post retirement
benefit obligations” within the meaning of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 106.



(m) The Borrower is not engaged in the business of extending credit for the purpose of
purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U issued by the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System), and no proceeds of any Revolving Credit Advance will be
used to purchase or carry any margin stock or to extend credit to others for the purpose of
purchasing or carrying any margin stock; and after applying the proceeds of each Revolving Credit
Advance hereunder, margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U issued by the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System) constitutes less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the
value of those assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries which are subject to any limitation on
sale or pledge, or any other restriction hereunder.



(n) Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is, or after the making of any Revolving
Credit Advance or the application of the proceeds or repayment thereof, or the consummation of any
of the other transactions contemplated hereby, will be, required to be registered as an “investment
company”, or an “affiliated person” of, or “promoter” or “principal underwriter” for, an
“investment company” (within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended).



(o) Neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary of the Borrower (i) is a person named on the list
of “Specially Designated Nationals” or “Blocked Persons” maintained by The Office of Foreign Assets
Control of the United States Department of the Treasury (the “OFAC”) available at
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/Pages/default.aspx, or as otherwise
published from time to time; or (ii) is (x) an agency of the government of a country, (y) an
organization controlled by a country, or (z) a person resident in a country that is subject to a
sanctions program identified on the list maintained by the OFAC and available at
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/Pages/default.aspx, or as otherwise
published from time to time, as such program may be applicable to such agency, organization or
person; or (iii) derives more than 10% of its assets or operating income from investments in or
transactions with any such country, agency, organization or person. Neither the Borrower nor any
Subsidiary of the Borrower will use the proceeds of the Revolving Credit Advances to finance any
operations, investments or activities in, or make any payments to, any such country, agency,
organization, or person.



(p) Neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary of the Borrower (i) is under investigation by any
Governmental Authority for, or has been charged with, or convicted of, money laundering, drug
trafficking, terrorist-related activities, or any violation under any laws or regulations relating
to money laundering or terrorist financing, including the Bank Secrecy Act, 31 U.S.C. §§5311 et.
seq. (the “Anti-Money Laundering Laws”), (ii) has been assessed civil penalties under any
Anti-Money Laundering Laws, or (iii) has had any of its funds seized or forfeited in an action
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ARTICLE V:




COVENANTS OF THE BORROWER




SECTION 5.01. Affirmative Covenants. So long as any Revolving Credit Advance shall
remain unpaid or any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, the Borrower will:



(a) Compliance with Laws, Etc. Comply, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to comply
with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and orders, such compliance to include, without
limitation, compliance with ERISA and Environmental Laws, except where the failure to do so,
individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect.



(b) Payment of Taxes, Etc. Pay and discharge, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to
pay and discharge, before the same shall become delinquent, all taxes, assessments and governmental
charges or levies imposed upon it or upon its property that, if not paid, could be reasonably
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; provided, however, that neither
the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be required to pay or discharge any such tax,
assessment, charge or claim that is being contested in good faith and by proper proceedings and as
to which appropriate reserves are being maintained, unless and until any Lien resulting therefrom
attaches to its property and becomes enforceable against its other creditors.



(c) Maintenance of Insurance. Maintain, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to
maintain, insurance with responsible and reputable insurance companies or associations in such
amounts and covering such risks as is usually carried by companies engaged in similar businesses
and owning similar properties (including customary self-insurance) in the same general areas in
which the Borrower or such Subsidiary operates.



(d) Preservation of Corporate Existence, Etc. Preserve and maintain its corporate
existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises; provided, however, that
the Borrower shall not be required to preserve any right or franchise if the Board of Directors of
the Borrower or such Subsidiary shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer
desirable in the conduct of the business of the Borrower and that the loss thereof is not
disadvantageous in any material respect to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole or
the ability of the Borrower to meet its obligations hereunder.



(e) Visitation Rights. At any reasonable time and from time to time, permit the Agent
or any of the Lenders or any agents or representatives thereof, to examine and make copies of and
abstracts from the records and books of account of, and visit the properties of, the Borrower and
any of its Significant Subsidiaries, and to discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of the
Borrower and any of its Significant Subsidiaries with any of their officers or directors and with
their independent certified public accountants.



(f) Keeping of Books. Keep, and cause each of its Significant Subsidiaries to keep,
proper books of record and account, in which full and correct entries shall be made of all
financial transactions and the assets and business of the Borrower and each such Subsidiary in
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(g) Maintenance of Properties, Etc. Subject to clause (d) above, maintain and
preserve, and cause each of its Significant Subsidiaries to maintain and preserve, all of their
respective properties that are used or useful in the conduct of their respective businesses in good
working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted.



(h) Reporting Requirements. Furnish to the Agent (and the Agent shall use
commercially reasonable efforts to promptly furnish copies thereof to the Lenders via IntraLinks or
other similar password-protected restricted internet site):




(i) as soon as available and in any event within 65 days after the end of each
of the first three quarters of each fiscal year of the Borrower, Consolidated
balance sheet of the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of the end of
such quarter and Consolidated statements of income and cash flows of the Borrower
and its Subsidiaries for the period commencing at the end of the previous fiscal
year and ending with the end of such quarter;




(ii) as soon as available and in any event within 115 days after the end of
each fiscal year of the Borrower, Consolidated financial statements, including the
notes thereto, of the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries for such fiscal
year, containing the Consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries as of the end of such fiscal year and the Consolidated statements of
income and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such fiscal year, in
each case accompanied by an opinion by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP or any other
independent public accounting firms which (x) as of the date of this Agreement is
one of the “big four” accounting firms or (y) is reasonably acceptable to the
Required Lenders;




(iii) together with the financial statements required under clauses (i) or (ii)
above, a compliance certificate in substantially the form of Exhibit F signed by a
Financial Officer of the Borrower showing the then-current information and
calculations necessary to determine the Applicable Margin and the Applicable
Percentage and compliance with this Agreement and stating that no Event of Default
or Default exists, or if any Event of Default or Default exists, stating the nature
and status thereof;




(iv) as soon as possible and in any event within five days after the occurrence
of each Default continuing on the date of such statement, a statement of a Financial
Officer of the Borrower setting forth details of such Default and the action that
the Borrower has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto;




(v) reasonably promptly after the sending or filing thereof copies of all
reports and registration statements that the Borrower or any Subsidiary filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission or any national securities exchange (it being
understood and agreed that the Borrower and any of its Subsidiaries shall
only be required to prepare and file such reports and registration statements
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(vi) such other information respecting the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
as any Lender through the Agent may from time to time reasonably request; and




(vii) promptly, but within five (5) Business Days of such change, written
notice to the Agent of each change to the Borrower’s Moody’s Rating and S&P Rating.



Information required to be delivered pursuant to clauses (i), (ii) or (v) above shall be deemed to
have been delivered on the date on which the Borrower has posted such information on the Internet
at www.dteenergy.com (or any successor or replacement website thereof), which website includes an
option to subscribe to a free service alerting subscribers by email of new Securities and Exchange
Commission filings at http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=68233&p=irol-alerts, or at
www.sec.gov or at another website identified in a notice to the Lenders and accessible by the
Lenders without charge.



SECTION 5.02. Negative Covenants. At all times on and after the Effective Date so
long as any Revolving Credit Advance shall remain unpaid or any Lender shall have any Commitment
hereunder, the Borrower will not:



(a) Liens, Etc. Create, incur, or suffer to exist any Lien in, of or on the Property
of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, except:




(i) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or levies on its
Property if the same shall not at the time be delinquent or thereafter can be paid
without penalty, or are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings
and for which adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP shall have been set aside on
its books;




(ii) Liens imposed by law, such as carriers’, warehousemen’s and mechanics’
liens and other similar liens arising in the ordinary course of business which
secure payment of obligations not more than sixty (60) days past due or which are
being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate
reserves in accordance with GAAP shall have been set aside on its books;




(iii) Liens arising out of pledges or deposits under worker’s compensation
laws, unemployment insurance, old age pensions, or other social security or
retirement benefits, or similar legislation;




(iv) Utility easements, building restrictions and such other encumbrances or
charges against real property as are of a nature generally existing with respect to
properties of a similar character and which do not in any material way affect the
marketability of the same or interfere with the use thereof in the business of the
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(v) Liens described in the SEC Reports;




(vi) Liens pursuant to the Borrower’s Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of
October 1, 1924 (as supplemented, the “Existing Mortgage”), as described
therein, and any replacement indenture in respect thereof, and any supplements
thereto, so long as (1) any such Liens under any such replacement indenture apply to
the property or assets of the Borrower in a manner substantially consistent with the
terms of the Existing Mortgage, and (2) the borrowing capacity and other
restrictions on the Borrower’s ability to incur any obligations under any such
replacement indenture are substantially the same as those set forth in the Existing
Mortgage;




(vii) Liens pursuant to the Borrower’s Indenture, dated as of June 30, 1993, as
supplemented, as described therein, in connection with the issuance of debt
securities secured by mortgage bonds; and




(viii) Liens, including, without limitation, Liens arising in connection with a
Receivables Purchase Facility or the issuance of Securitization Bonds, securing Debt
of the Borrower (other than Debt of the Borrower owed to any Subsidiary) and/or
securing Debt of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries (other than Debt of any Subsidiary owed
to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary), in an aggregate outstanding amount not to
exceed ten percent (10%) of the consolidated assets of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries at any time.



(b) Mergers, Etc. Merge or consolidate with or into, or convey, transfer, lease or
otherwise dispose of (whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or
substantially all of its assets (whether now owned or hereafter acquired) to, any Person, or permit
any Significant Subsidiary to do so, except that (i) any Significant Subsidiary may merge or
consolidate with or into any other Significant Subsidiary, (ii) any Significant Subsidiary may
merge into or dispose of assets to the Borrower, and (iii) the Borrower may merge or consolidate
with (a) MichCon, so long as the Borrower shall be the surviving entity or MichCon shall expressly
assume the obligations under this Agreement or (b) any other Person so long as the Borrower shall
be the surviving entity and has, after giving effect to such merger or consolidation, senior
unsecured Debt outstanding rated at least BBB- by S&P and Baa3 by Moody’s; provided, in
each case, that no Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such proposed
transaction or would result therefrom.



(c) Change in Nature of Business. Make, or permit any of its Significant Subsidiaries
to make, any material change in the nature of its business as carried on the date hereof, other
than as disclosed or contemplated in the SEC Reports.



(d) Accounting Changes. Make or permit any change in accounting policies or reporting
practices, except as required or permitted by generally accepted accounting principles; or permit
any of its Subsidiaries to make or permit any change in accounting policies or reporting practices
if, as a result of such change, the Borrower shall fail to maintain a system of accounting
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ARTICLE VI:




EVENTS OF DEFAULT




SECTION 6.01. Events of Default. If any of the following events (“Events of
Default”) shall occur and be continuing:



(a) The Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Revolving Credit Advance when the same
becomes due and payable; or the Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Revolving Credit
Advance or make any other payment of fees or other amounts payable under this Agreement or any Note
within three Business Days after the same becomes due and payable; or



(b) Any representation or warranty made by the Borrower herein, by the Borrower (or any of its
officers) in connection with this Agreement shall prove to have been incorrect in any material
respect when made; or



(c) (i) The Borrower shall fail to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement
contained in Section 2.09(b), 5.01(d), (e) or (h) or 5.02, or (ii) the Borrower shall fail to
perform or observe any other term, covenant or agreement contained in any Loan Document on its part
to be performed or observed if such failure shall remain unremedied for 30 days after written
notice thereof shall have been given to the Borrower by the Agent or any Lender; or



(d) The Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries shall fail to pay any principal of or
premium or interest on any Debt that is outstanding in a principal or notional amount of at least
$50,000,000 in the aggregate (but excluding Debt outstanding hereunder and Nonrecourse Debt) of the
Borrower or such Significant Subsidiary (as the case may be), when the same becomes due and payable
(whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand or otherwise), and such
failure shall continue after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in the agreement or
instrument relating to such Debt; or any other event shall occur or condition shall exist under any
agreement or instrument relating to any such Debt and shall continue after the applicable grace
period, if any, specified in such agreement or instrument, if the effect of such event or condition
is to accelerate, or to permit the acceleration of, the maturity of such Debt; or any such Debt
shall be declared to be due and payable, or required to be prepaid or redeemed (other than by a
regularly scheduled required prepayment or redemption), purchased or defeased, or an offer to
prepay, redeem, purchase or defease such Debt shall be required to be made, in each case prior to
the stated maturity thereof; or



(e) The Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries shall generally not pay its debts as
such debts become due, or shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally, or shall
make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors; or any proceeding shall be instituted by or
against the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or
insolvent, or seeking liquidation, winding up, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, protection,
relief, or composition of it or its debts under any law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or
reorganization or relief of debtors, or seeking the entry of an order for relief or the appointment
of a receiver, trustee, custodian or other similar official for it or for any substantial part of
its property and, in the case of any such proceeding instituted
against it (but not instituted by it), either such proceeding shall remain undismissed or
unstayed for a period of 60 days, or any of the actions sought in such proceeding (including,
without limitation, the entry of an order for relief against, or the appointment of a receiver,
trustee, custodian or other similar official for, it or for any substantial part of its property)
shall occur; or the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries shall take any corporate action
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(f) Any judgment or order for the payment of money, individually or in the aggregate, in
excess of $50,000,000 shall be rendered against the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries
and either (i) enforcement proceedings shall have been commenced by any creditor upon such judgment
or order or (ii) there shall be any period of 30 consecutive days during which a stay of
enforcement of such judgment or order, by reason of a pending appeal or otherwise, shall not be in
effect; or



(g) (i) any Person or “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) shall either (A) acquire beneficial ownership of more than 25% of
any outstanding class of common stock of DTE Energy having ordinary voting power in the election of
directors of DTE Energy, or (B) obtain the power (whether or not exercised) to elect a majority of
DTE Energy’s directors, or (ii) DTE Energy shall at any time cease to hold directly or indirectly
100% of the Voting Stock of the Borrower; or



(h) The Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates shall incur, or, in the reasonable opinion of
the Required Lenders, shall be reasonably likely to incur liability in excess of $50,000,000
individually or in the aggregate as a result of one or more of the following: (i) the occurrence
of any ERISA Event; (ii) the partial or complete withdrawal of the Borrower or any of its ERISA
Affiliates from a Multiemployer Plan; or (iii) the reorganization or termination of a Multiemployer
Plan; or



(i) The Borrower and its Subsidiaries, on a Consolidated basis, shall, as of the last day of
any fiscal quarter of the Borrower, have a ratio of (a) Total Funded Debt to (b) Capitalization in
excess of .65:1; or



(j) Any provision of any of the Loan Documents after delivery thereof pursuant to Section 3.01
shall for any reason cease to be valid and binding on or enforceable against the Borrower, or the
Borrower shall so state in writing;



then, and in any such event, the Agent (i) shall at the request, or may with the consent, of the
Required Lenders, by notice to the Borrower, declare the obligation of each Lender to make
Revolving Credit Advances to be terminated, whereupon the same shall forthwith terminate, and (ii)
shall at the request, or may with the consent, of the Required Lenders, by notice to the Borrower,
declare the Revolving Credit Advances, all interest thereon and all other amounts payable under
this Agreement to be forthwith due and payable, whereupon the Revolving Credit Advances, all such
interest and all such amounts shall become and be forthwith due and payable, without presentment,
demand, protest or further notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the
Borrower; provided, however, that in the event of an actual or deemed entry of an
order for relief with respect to the Borrower under the Federal Bankruptcy Code, (A)
the obligation of each Lender to make Revolving Credit Advances shall automatically be terminated
and (B) the Revolving Credit Advances, all such interest and all such amounts shall automatically
become and be due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or any notice of any kind, all
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ARTICLE VII:




THE AGENT




SECTION 7.01. Authorization and Action. Each Lender hereby appoints and authorizes
the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion
under this Agreement as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers
and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto. As to any matters not expressly provided for
by this Agreement (including, without limitation, enforcement or collection of the Revolving Credit
Advances), the Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall
be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or
refraining from acting) upon the instructions of the Required Lenders (or all of the Lenders to the
extent required by the terms of this Agreement), and such instructions shall be binding upon all
Lenders and all holders of Revolving Credit Advances; provided, however, that the
Agent shall not be required to take any action that exposes the Agent to personal liability or that
is contrary to this Agreement or applicable law. The Agent agrees to give to each Lender prompt
notice of each notice given to it by the Borrower pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.



SECTION 7.02. Agent’s Reliance, Etc. Neither the Agent nor any of its directors,
officers, agents or employees shall be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it or
them under or in connection with this Agreement, except for its or their own gross negligence or
willful misconduct. Without limitation of the generality of the foregoing, the Agent: (i) may
treat the payee in respect of any Revolving Credit Advance as the owner thereof until the Agent
receives and accepts an Assignment and Assumption entered into by the Lender that is the payee in
respect of such Revolving Credit Advance, as assignor, and an Eligible Assignee, as assignee, as
provided in Section 8.07; (ii) may consult with legal counsel (including counsel for the Borrower),
independent public accountants and other experts selected by it and shall not be liable for any
action taken or omitted to be taken in good faith by it in accordance with the advice of such
counsel, accountants or experts; (iii) makes no warranty or representation to any Lender and shall
not be responsible to any Lender for any statements, warranties or representations (whether written
or oral) made in or in connection with this Agreement; (iv) shall not have any duty to ascertain or
to inquire as to the performance or observance of any of the terms, covenants or conditions of this
Agreement on the part of the Borrower or to inspect the property (including the books and records)
of the Borrower; (v) shall not be responsible to any Lender for the due execution, legality,
validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the perfection or priority of
any lien or security interest created or purported to be created under or in connection with, any
Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; and (vi) shall incur
no liability under or in respect of this Agreement by acting upon any notice, consent, certificate
or other instrument or writing (which may be by telecopier, telegram or telex) believed by it to be
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SECTION 7.03. Barclays and Affiliates. With respect to its Commitment, the Revolving
Credit Advances made by it and any Note issued to it, Barclays shall have the same rights and
powers under this Agreement as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the
Agent; and the term “Lender” or “Lenders” shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated, include
Barclays in its individual capacity. Barclays and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend
money to, act as trustee under indentures of, accept investment banking engagements from and
generally engage in any kind of business with, the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries and any Person
who may do business with or own securities of the Borrower or any such Subsidiary, all as if
Barclays were not the Agent and without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders.



SECTION 7.04. Lender Credit Decision. Each Lender acknowledges that it has,
independently and without reliance upon the Agent or any other Lender and based on the financial
statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed
appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender
also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent or any other
Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time,
continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement.



SECTION 7.05. Indemnification. The Lenders agree to indemnify the Agent (to the
extent not reimbursed by the Borrower), solely in its capacity as Agent hereunder, ratably
according to the respective principal amounts of their respective Revolving Credit Advances (or if
no Revolving Credit Advances are at the time outstanding or if any Revolving Credit Advances are
owing to Persons that are not Lenders, ratably according to the respective amounts of their
Commitments), from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties,
actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever that
may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against the Agent in any way relating to or arising out
of any Loan Document or any action taken or omitted by the Agent under any Loan Document,
provided that no Lender shall be liable for any portion of such liabilities, obligations,
losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting
from the Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct. Without limitation of the foregoing, each
Lender agrees to reimburse the Agent promptly upon demand for its ratable share of any
out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable counsel fees) incurred by the Agent, solely in its
capacity as Agent hereunder, in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery,
administration, modification, amendment or enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal
proceedings or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of rights or responsibilities under, any
Loan Document, to the extent that the Agent is not reimbursed for such expenses by the Borrower.



SECTION 7.06. Successor Agent. The Agent may resign at any time by giving written
notice thereof to the Lenders and the Borrower. Upon any such resignation, the Required Lenders
shall have the right to appoint a successor Agent. If no successor Agent shall have been so
appointed by the Required Lenders, and shall have accepted such appointment, within 30 days after
the retiring Agent’s giving of notice of resignation, then the retiring Agent may, on behalf of the
Lenders, appoint a successor Agent, which shall be a commercial bank organized under the laws of
the United States of America or of any State thereof and having a
combined capital and surplus of at least $500,000,000. Upon the acceptance of any appointment
as Agent hereunder by a successor Agent, such successor Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become
vested with all the rights, powers, discretion, privileges and duties of the retiring Agent, and
the retiring Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under this Agreement. After
any retiring Agent’s resignation, the provisions of this Article VII shall inure to its benefit as
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SECTION 7.07. Co-Syndication Agents and Documentation Agent. None of the Lenders
identified in this Agreement as a Co-Syndication Agent or a Documentation Agent shall have any
right, power, obligation, liability, responsibility or duty under this Agreement other than those
applicable to all Lenders as such. Without limiting the foregoing, none of such Lenders shall have
or be deemed to have a fiduciary relationship with any Lender. Each Lender hereby makes the same
acknowledgments with respect to such Lenders as it makes with respect to the Agent in Section 7.04.



ARTICLE VIII:




MISCELLANEOUS




SECTION 8.01. Amendments, Etc. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this
Agreement or the Notes, nor consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, shall in any event
be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the Required Lenders, and then such
waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for
which given; provided, however, that no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless
in writing and signed by all the Lenders affected thereby, do any of the following: (a) waive any
of the conditions specified in Section 3.01, (b) increase the Commitments of the Lenders or subject
the Lenders to any additional obligations, (c) reduce the principal of, or rate of interest on, the
Revolving Credit Advances or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, (d) postpone any date
fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Revolving Credit Advances or any fees or
other amounts payable hereunder, (e) change the percentage of the Commitments or of the aggregate
unpaid principal amount of the Revolving Credit Advances, or the number of Lenders, that shall be
required for the Lenders or any of them to take or approve any action hereunder (including, without
limitation, amending the definition of “Required Lenders”), (f) alter the manner in which payments
or prepayments of principal, interest or other amounts hereunder shall be applied or shared as
among the Lenders or Types of Revolving Credit Advances, (g) amend any provisions hereunder
relating to the pro rata treatment of the Lenders, or (h) amend this Section 8.01; and
provided further that no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and
signed by the Agent in addition to the Lenders required above to take such action, affect the
rights or duties of the Agent under this Agreement or any Note; and provided
further that no amendments, consents or waivers are required to effectuate the increases in
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SECTION 8.02. Notices, Etc.



(a) All notices and other communications provided for hereunder shall be in writing or
confirmed in writing (including telecopier communication) and mailed, telecopied or
delivered, if to the Borrower, at its address at One Energy Plaza, Detroit, MI 48226,
Attention: Treasurer; if to any Lender, at its Domestic Lending Office; and if to the Agent, at
its address at 745 Seventh Avenue, 26th Floor, New York, NY 10019, Attention: Alicia
Borys, with a copy to Barclays Bank PLC, 1301 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY 10019, Attention: Zivile
Zekaite, Fax 917-522-0569, xrausloanops5@barcap.com; or, as to the Borrower or the Agent, at such
other address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to the other parties and, as
to each other party, at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice
to the Borrower and the Agent. All such notices and other communications (i) sent by hand or
overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered mail, shall be deemed to have been
given when received or (ii) sent by telecopier shall be deemed to have been given when sent,
provided that if not given during normal business hours for the recipient, shall be deemed
to have been given at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, all such notices and communications to the Agent pursuant to Article
II, III or VII shall not be deemed to have been given until received by the Agent. Delivery by
telecopier of an executed counterpart of any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement
or the Notes or of any Exhibit hereto to be executed and delivered hereunder shall be effective as
delivery of a manually executed counterpart thereof.



(b) (i) Except as otherwise provided in Section 5.01(h), the Borrower shall provide to the
Agent all information, documents and other materials that it is obligated to furnish to the Agent
pursuant to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including, without limitation, all
notices, requests, financial statements, financial and other reports, certificates and other
information materials, but excluding any such communication that (i) relates to a Notice of
Borrowing or other request for a new, or a conversion of an existing, Borrowing or other extension
of credit (including any election of an interest rate or Interest Period relating thereto), (ii)
relates to the payment of any principal or other amount due hereunder prior to the scheduled date
therefor, (iii) provides notice of any Default or Event of Default hereunder or (iv) is required to
be delivered to satisfy any condition precedent to the effectiveness of this Agreement and/or any
Borrowing or other extension of credit hereunder (all such non-excluded communications being
referred to herein collectively as “Communications”), by transmitting the Communications in
an electronic/soft medium in a format acceptable to the Agent to such electronic mail address as
the Agent shall identify to the Borrower. In addition, the Borrower shall continue to provide the
Communications to the Agent in the manner specified in this Agreement but only to the extent
requested by the Agent. The Borrower further agrees that the Agent may make the Communications
available to the Lenders by posting the Communications on Intralinks, or a substantially similar
electronic transmission system mutually agreeable to the Agent and the Borrower (the
“Platform”). Nothing in this Section 8.02(b) shall prejudice the right of the Agent or any
Lender to give any notice or other communication pursuant hereto or to any other Loan Document in
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(ii) The Agent agrees that the receipt of the Communications by the Agent at its e-mail
address set forth in clause (i) above shall constitute effective delivery of the Communications to
the Agent for purposes of each Loan Document. The Borrower agrees that e-mail notice to it (at the
address provided pursuant to the next sentence and deemed delivered as provided in subclause (iii)
below) specifying that Communications have been posted to the Platform shall constitute effective
delivery of such Communications to it for purposes of the Loan Documents. The Borrower agrees (A)
to notify the Agent in writing (including by
electronic communication) from time to time to ensure that the Agent has on record an
effective e-mail address for the Borrower to which the foregoing notices may be sent by electronic
transmission and (B) that the foregoing notices may be sent to such e-mail address. Each Lender
agrees that e-mail notice to it (at the address provided pursuant to the next sentence and deemed
delivered as provided in subclause (iii) below) specifying that the Communications have been posted
to the Platform shall constitute effective delivery of the Communications to such Lender for
purposes of the Loan Documents. Each Lender agrees (A) to notify the Agent in writing (including
by electronic communication) from time to time of such Lender’s e-mail address to which the
foregoing notice may be sent by electronic transmission and (B) that the foregoing notice may be
sent to such e-mail address.



(iii) Each party hereto agrees that any electronic communication referred to in this clause
(b) shall be deemed delivered upon the posting of a record of such Communication as “sent” in the
e-mail system of the sending party or, in the case of any such Communication to the Agent or any
Lender, upon the posting of a record of such Communication as “received” in the e-mail system of
the Agent or such Lender; provided, however, that if such Communication is received
by the Agent or such Lender after the normal business hours of the Agent or such Lender, such
Communication shall be deemed delivered at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the
Agent or such Lender; provided, further, that in the event that the Agent’s or such
Lender’s e-mail system shall be unavailable for receipt of any Communication, Borrower may deliver
such Communication to the Agent or such Lender in a manner mutually agreeable to the Agent and such
Lender, as applicable, and the Borrower.



(iv) The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the distribution of the Communications and
other material through an electronic medium is not necessarily secure and that there are
confidentiality and other risks associated with such distribution. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO
ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES AS FOLLOWS: (A) THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”; (B)
THE AGENT PARTIES DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE COMMUNICATIONS, OR THE
ADEQUACY OF THE PLATFORM AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN THE
COMMUNICATIONS; (C) NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, WITHOUT
LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF
THIRD PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS, IS MADE BY THE AGENT PARTIES IN
CONNECTION WITH THE COMMUNICATIONS OR THE PLATFORM; AND (D) IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AGENT OR ANY OF
ITS AFFILIATES OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, ADVISORS OR
REPRESENTATIVES (COLLECTIVELY, THE “AGENT PARTIES”) HAVE ANY LIABILITY TO THE BORROWER, ANY
LENDER OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT
OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOSSES OR EXPENSES (WHETHER IN TORT,
CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF THE BORROWER’S OR THE AGENT’S TRANSMISSION OF COMMUNICATIONS
THROUGH THE INTERNET, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THE LIABILITY OF ANY AGENT PARTY IS FOUND IN A FINAL
NON-APPEALABLE JUDGMENT BY A COURT OF COMPETENT
JURISDICTION TO HAVE RESULTED PRIMARILY FROM SUCH AGENT PARTY’S GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL
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(v) This clause (b) shall terminate on the date that neither Barclays nor any of its
Affiliates is the Agent under this Agreement.



SECTION 8.03. No Waiver; Remedies. No failure on the part of any Lender or the Agent
to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right hereunder or under any Note shall operate as a
waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right preclude any other or
further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The remedies herein provided are
cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided by law.




SECTION 8.04. Costs and Expenses; Damage Waiver.



(a) The Borrower agrees to pay on demand, upon presentation of a statement of account and
absent manifest error, all reasonable costs and reasonable expenses of the Agent in connection with
the preparation, execution, delivery, administration, modification and amendment of the Loan
Document and the other documents to be delivered hereunder and thereunder, including, without
limitation, (A) all due diligence, syndication (including printing, distribution and bank
meetings), transportation, computer, duplication, appraisal, consultant, and audit expenses and (B)
the reasonable fees and reasonable expenses of counsel for the Agent with respect thereto and with
respect to advising the Agent as to its rights and responsibilities under the Loan Documents. The
Borrower further agrees to pay on demand all reasonable costs and reasonable expenses of the Agent
and the Lenders, if any (including, without limitation, reasonable internal and external counsel
fees and expenses, provided such fees and expenses are not duplicative), in connection with the
“workout”, restructuring or enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal proceedings or
otherwise) of the Loan Documents and the other documents to be delivered hereunder, including,
without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Agent and each Lender in
connection with the enforcement of rights under this Section 8.04(a).



(b) The Borrower agrees to indemnify, to the extent legally permissible, and hold harmless the
Agent and each Lender and each of their Affiliates and their officers, directors, employees, agents
and advisors (each, an “Indemnified Party”) from and against any and all claims, damages,
losses, liabilities and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of
counsel) that may be incurred by or asserted or awarded against any Indemnified Party, in each case
arising out of or in connection with or by reason of, or in connection with the preparation for a
defense of, any investigation, litigation or proceeding arising out of, related to or in connection
with (i) the Loan Documents, any of the transactions contemplated herein or therein or the actual
or proposed use of the proceeds of the Revolving Credit Advances or (ii) the actual or alleged
presence of Hazardous Materials on any property of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any
Environmental Action relating in any way to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, in each case
whether or not such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by the Borrower, its
directors, shareholders or creditors or an Indemnified Party or any other Person or any Indemnified
Party is otherwise a party thereto and whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are
consummated, except to the extent such claim, damage, loss, liability or expense is found in a
final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have

resulted from such Indemnified Party’s gross negligence or willful misconduct;
provided that upon receipt of notice of any such matter by a representative of the Agent or
any Lender, as applicable, having primary responsibility for the relationship between the Borrower
and the Agent or such Lender, as applicable, the Agent or such Lender, as applicable, shall
promptly notify the Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law. The Borrower shall have no
liability for any settlement effected without its prior written consent, which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld or delayed. The Borrower also agrees not to assert any claim against the
Agent, any Lender, any of their Affiliates, or any of their respective directors, officers,
employees, attorneys and agents, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential
or punitive damages arising out of or otherwise relating to the Loan Documents, any of the
transactions contemplated herein or therein or the actual or proposed use of the proceeds of the
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(c) If any payment or reallocation of principal of, or Conversion of, any Eurodollar Rate
Advance is made by the Borrower to or for the account of a Lender other than on the last day of the
Interest Period for such Revolving Credit Advance, as a result of a payment or Conversion pursuant
to Section 2.07(d) or (e), 2.09 or 2.11(a), acceleration of the maturity of the Revolving Credit
Advances pursuant to Section 6.01, or for any other reason, the Borrower shall, upon demand by such
Lender (with a copy of such demand to the Agent), pay to the Agent for the account of such Lender
any amounts required to compensate such Lender for any additional losses, costs or expenses that it
may reasonably incur as a result of such payment or Conversion, including, without limitation, any
loss (including loss of anticipated profits), cost or expense incurred by reason of the liquidation
or reemployment of deposits or other funds acquired by any Lender to fund or maintain such
Revolving Credit Advance.



(d) Without prejudice to the survival of any other agreement of the Borrower hereunder, the
agreements and obligations of the Borrower contained in Sections 2.10, 2.13 and 8.04 shall survive
the payment in full of principal, interest and all other amounts payable hereunder and under the
Notes.



(e) To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Borrower shall not assert, and hereby
waives, any claim against any Indemnified Party (i) for any damages arising from the use by others
of information or other materials obtained through telecommunications, electronic or other
information transmission systems (including the internet), or (ii) on any theory of liability, for
special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages)
arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or
any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, any of the transactions contemplated in
any Loan Document, or any Revolving Credit Advance or the use of the proceeds thereof.



(f) To the extent permitted by applicable law, none of the Agent or the Lenders shall assert,
and each of the Agent and the Lenders hereby waives, any claim against the Borrower on any theory
of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or
actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement, any other
Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, any of the
transactions contemplated in any Loan Document, or any Revolving Credit Advance or the use of the
proceeds thereof; provided that, nothing contained in this paragraph
shall limit the Borrower’s reimbursement and indemnity obligations set forth in this Section
8.04. For the avoidance of doubt, all payments to which the Agent and the Lenders are expressly
entitled under this Agreement, including without limitation amounts due under Sections
2.10, 2.11 and 2.13, if demanded in accordance with the terms of this
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SECTION 8.05. Right of Set-off. Upon (i) the occurrence and during the continuance of
any Event of Default and (ii) the making of the request or the granting of the consent specified by
Section 6.01 to authorize the Agent to declare the Revolving Credit Advances due and payable
pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.01, each Lender and each of its Affiliates is hereby
authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off
and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any
time held and other indebtedness at any time owing by such Lender or such Affiliate to or for the
credit or the account of the Borrower against any and all of the obligations of the Borrower now or
hereafter existing under the Loan Documents and any Note held by such Lender, whether or not such
Lender shall have made any demand under this Agreement or such Note and although such obligations
may be unmatured. Each Lender agrees promptly to notify the Agent and the Borrower after any such
set-off and application, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the
validity of such set-off and application. The rights of each Lender and its Affiliates under this
Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including, without limitation, other rights
of set-off) that such Lender and its Affiliates may have.



SECTION 8.06. Binding Effect. This Agreement shall become effective (other than
Section 2.01, which shall only become effective upon satisfaction of the conditions precedent set
forth in Section 3.01) when it shall have been executed by the Borrower and the Agent and when the
Agent shall have been notified by each Initial Lender that such Initial Lender has executed it and
thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrower, the Agent and each
Lender and their respective successors and assigns, except that the Borrower shall not have the
right to assign its rights hereunder or any interest herein without the prior written consent of
the Lenders to any Person.



SECTION 8.07. Assignments, Designations and Participations. Each Lender may (i) with
the prior consent of the Agent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, and which consent
shall not be required in the event of an assignment or grant pursuant to Sections 8.07(g) or (h) or
an assignment to any other Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender, or an Approved Fund) and (ii) for so
long as no Default has occurred and is continuing, with the consent of the Borrower (which consent
shall not be unreasonably withheld and provided, in any event, that the Borrower shall be
deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless it shall object thereto by written notice to
Agent within ten (10) days after having received notice thereof, and which consent shall not be
required in the event of an assignment or grant pursuant to Sections 8.07(g) or (h) or an
assignment to any other Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender, or an Approved Fund), assign to one or
more Persons all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including,
without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Revolving Credit Advances owed to it
and any Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (A) each such assignment
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under this
Agreement, (B) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior
 to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender’s rights and obligations
under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant
to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Assumption with respect to
such assignment) shall in no event be less than $10,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000
in excess thereof, (C) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (D) the parties
to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in
the Register, an Assignment and Assumption, together with any Note subject to such assignment and a
processing and recordation fee of $3,500, which fee may be waived by the Agent in its sole
discretion if such assignment is to an Affiliate of the assigning Lender. Upon such execution,
delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment
and Assumption, (1) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights
and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Assumption, have
the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (2) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to
the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such
Assignment and Assumption, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this
Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all or the remaining portion
of an assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be
a party hereto).



(b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Assumption, the Lender assignor thereunder
and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as
follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Assumption, such assigning Lender
makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements,
warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution,
legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the perfection or
priority of any lien or security interest created or purported to be created under or in
connection with, this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto;
(ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with
respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the
Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document
furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this
Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such
other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and
decision to enter into such Assignment and Assumption; (iv) such assignee will, independently and
without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such
documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own
credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms
that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such
action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as
are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are
reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance
with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be
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(c) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Assumption executed by an assigning Lender and an
assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to
such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Assignment and Assumption
has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such
Assignment and Assumption, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii)
give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. Within five Business Days after the Borrower’s receipt
of such notice, if requested by the applicable Lender, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall
execute and deliver to the Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note a new Note to the order of
such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it pursuant to such
Assignment and Assumption and, if the assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder, if
requested by such assigning Lender, a new Note to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount
equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate
principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall
be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Assumption and shall otherwise be in
substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto.



(d) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each
Assignment and Assumption delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the
names and addresses and Commitment of, and principal amount of Revolving Credit Advances owing to,
each Lender from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be
conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the
Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all
purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any
Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.



(e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (other than the
Borrower or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under
this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Revolving
Credit Advances owing to it and any Note or Notes held by it); provided, however,
that (i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its
Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely
responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender
shall remain the owner of such Revolving Credit Advances for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv)
the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such
Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no
participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of
any provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any consent to any departure by the Borrower
therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would (A) reduce the
principal of, or interest on, the Revolving Credit Advances or any fees or other amounts payable
hereunder, or (B) increase the Commitments, in each case to the extent subject to such
participation, or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the
Revolving Credit Advances or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the
extent subject to such participation. Each participant shall be entitled to the benefits and
subject to the exclusions, in each case, as if it were a Lender, of Sections 2.10, 2.11(a) and 2.13
to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest under this Agreement by an
assignment made pursuant to this Section 8.07, provided, however, that (i) such
participant complies with the requirements of Section 2.13(e) and (ii) in no event shall the
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had no participations been sold under this Section 8.07(e) (it being understood that the documentation required under
Section 2.13(e) shall be delivered to the participating Lender). Each Lender that sells a
participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, maintain a
register on which it enters the name and address of each participant and the principal amounts (and
stated interest) of each participant’s interest in the obligations under this Agreement (the
“Participant Register”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all
or any portion of the Participant Register to any Person (including the identity of any participant
or any information relating to a participant’s interest in the obligations under this Agreement)
except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such interest is in
registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries
in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat
each person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation
for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary.



(f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment, designation or participation or
proposed assignment, designation or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the
assignee, designee or participant or proposed assignee, designee or participant, any information
relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided
that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee, designee or participant or proposed assignee,
designee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information
relating to the Borrower received by it from such Lender.



(g) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any
time create a security interest in all or a portion of its rights under this Agreement (including,
without limitation, the Revolving Credit Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it) in
favor of any Person (other than the Borrower or an Affiliate of the Borrower), including, without
limitation, any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System.



(h) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any Lender (a “Designating
Lender”) may grant to one or more special purpose funding vehicles (each an “SPV”),
identified as such in writing from time to time by the Designating Lender to the Agent and the
Borrower, the option to provide to the Borrower all or any part of any Revolving Credit Advance
that such Designating Lender would otherwise be obligated to make to the Borrower pursuant to this
Agreement; provided that (i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any SPV to
make any Revolving Credit Advance, (ii) if an SPV elects not to exercise such option or otherwise
fails to provide all or any part of such Revolving Credit Advance, the Designating Lender shall be
obligated to make such Revolving Credit Advance pursuant to the terms hereof, (iii) the Designating
Lender shall remain liable for any indemnity or other payment obligation with respect to its
Commitment hereunder and (iv) no SPV or Designating Lender shall be entitled to receive any greater
amount under this Agreement than the Designating Lender would have been entitled to receive had the
Designating Lender not otherwise granted such SPV the option to provide any Revolving Credit
Advance to the Borrower. The making of a Revolving Credit Advance by an SPV hereunder shall
utilize the Commitment of the Designating Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Revolving
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(i) Each party hereto hereby acknowledges and agrees that no SPV shall have the rights of a
Lender hereunder, such rights being retained by the applicable Designating Lender. Accordingly,
and without limiting the foregoing, each party hereby further acknowledges and agrees that no SPV
shall have any voting rights hereunder and that the voting rights attributable to any Revolving
Credit Advance made by an SPV shall be exercised only by the relevant Designating Lender and that
each Designating Lender shall serve as the administrative agent and attorney-in-fact for its SPV
and shall on behalf of its SPV receive any and all payments made for the benefit of such SPV and
take all actions hereunder to the extent, if any, such SPV shall have any rights hereunder. No
additional Note shall be required to evidence the Revolving Credit Advances or portion thereof made
by an SPV; and the related Designating Lender shall be deemed to hold its Note or Notes, if any, as
administrative agent for such SPV to the extent of the Revolving Credit Advances or portion thereof
funded by such SPV. In addition, any payments for the account of any SPV shall be paid to its
Designating Lender as administrative agent for such SPV.



(j) Each party hereto hereby agrees that no SPV shall be liable for any indemnity or payment
under this Agreement for which a Lender would otherwise be liable so long as, and to the extent
that, the related Designating Lender provides such indemnity or makes such payment;
provided, with respect to such agreement by the Borrower that the related Designating
Lender shall not be in breach of its obligation to make Revolving Credit Advances to the Borrower
hereunder. In furtherance of the foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreements
shall survive the termination of this Agreement) that prior to the date that is one year and one
day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or other senior indebtedness of
any SPV, it will not institute against, or join any other person in instituting against, such SPV
any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings under the laws
of the United States or any State thereof; provided, with respect to such agreement by the
Borrower that the related Designating Lender shall not be in breach of its obligation to make
Revolving Credit Advances to the Borrower hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
Designating Lender unconditionally agrees to indemnify the Borrower, the Agent and each Lender
against all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs,
expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be incurred by or asserted
against the Borrower, the Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, in any way relating to or
arising as a consequence of any such forbearance or delay in the initiation of any such proceeding
against its SPV.



(k) In addition, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in subsection 8.07(h),
(i), (j) or (k) or otherwise in this Agreement, any SPV may (i) at any time and without paying any
processing fee therefor, assign or participate all or a portion of its interest in any Revolving
Credit Advances to the Designating Lender or to any financial institutions providing liquidity
and/or credit support to or for the account of such SPV to support the funding or maintenance of
Revolving Credit Advances and (ii) disclose on a confidential basis any non-public information
relating to its Revolving Credit Advances to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider
of any surety, guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancements to such SPV. Subsection 8.07(h), (i),
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SECTION 8.08.
Confidentiality.  Neither the Agent nor any
Lender shall disclose any Confidential Information to any other Person without the consent of the
Borrower, other than (a) to the Agent’s or such Lender’s Affiliates and their officers, directors,
employees, agents and advisors and, as contemplated by Section 8.07(f), to actual or prospective
assignees and participants, and then only on a confidential basis, (b) as required by any law, rule
or regulation or judicial process, (c) to any rating agency when required by it, provided
that, prior to any such disclosure, such rating agency shall undertake to preserve the
confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower received by it from the
Agent or such Lender, (d) as requested or required by any state, federal or foreign authority or
examiner regulating banks, other financial institutions or banking, (e) in connection with the
exercise of any remedies hereunder or any suit, action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or
the enforcement of rights hereunder, (f) on a confidential basis to any Lender’s direct or indirect
contractual counterparties in swap agreements or to legal counsel, accountants and other
professional advisors to such counterparties, and (g) subject to an agreement containing provisions
substantially the same as those of this Section, (x) to any credit or financial insurance provider
in connection with the Borrower’s obligations hereunder, and (y) to any Person that requires such
Confidential Information in connection with obtaining CUSIP-based identifiers.



SECTION 8.09.
 Governing Law. This Agreement and the Notes
shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.



SECTION 8.10.
Execution in Counterparts; Integration. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different
parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an
original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Delivery of
an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement by telecopier shall be effective as
delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement. This Agreement and any separate
letter agreement with respect to fees payable to the Agent or confidential information (the latter
of which shall apply solely to information provided prior to the date hereof) constitute the entire
contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous
agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof.





SECTION 8.11. Jurisdiction, Etc.



(a) Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and
its property, to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of any New York State court or federal court of the
United States of America sitting in the Borough of Manhattan in the county of New York City, and
any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to
this Agreement or the Notes, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the
parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such
action or proceeding may be heard and determined in any such New York State court or, to the extent
permitted by law, in such federal court. Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment
in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other
jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law. Nothing in this
Agreement shall affect any right that any party may otherwise have to bring any action or
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(b) Each of the parties hereto irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent
it may legally and effectively do so, any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the laying
of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the
Notes in any New York State or federal court. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably
waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the
maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court.




SECTION 8.12. Waiver of Jury Trial.  Each of the
Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders hereby irrevocably waives all right to trial by jury in any
action, proceeding or counterclaim (whether based on contract, tort or otherwise) arising out of or
relating to this Agreement or the Notes or the actions of the Agent or any Lender in the
negotiation, administration, performance or enforcement thereof.



SECTION 8.13. USA Patriot Act Notification. The following notification is provided to
the Borrower pursuant to Section 326 of the USA Patriot Act of 2001, 31 U.S.C. Section 5318:



IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT PROCEDURES FOR OPENING A NEW ACCOUNT. To help the government
fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, Federal law requires all financial
institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person or entity that
opens an account, including any deposit account, treasury management account, loan, other extension
of credit, or other financial services product. What this means for the Borrower: When the
Borrower opens an account, the Agent and the Lenders will ask for the Borrower’s name, tax
identification number, business address, and other information that will allow the Agent and the
Lenders to identify the Borrower. The Agent and the Lenders may also ask to see the Borrower’s
legal organizational documents or other identifying documents.



SECTION 8.14. Severability. In the event any one or more of the provisions contained
in this Agreement should be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, the validity,
legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions contained herein shall not in any way be
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SECTION 8.15. No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility. In connection with all aspects
of each transaction contemplated hereby (including in connection with any amendment, waiver or
other modification hereof or of any other Loan Document or any syndication of the credit facility
provided hereunder), the Borrower acknowledges and agrees that: (i) (A) the arranging and other
services regarding this Agreement provided by the Agents and the Arrangers are arm’s-length
commercial transactions between the Borrower and its Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Agents
and the Arrangers, and each of their respective Affiliates, on the other hand, (B) it has consulted
its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it has deemed appropriate, and
(C) it is capable of evaluating, and understands and accepts, the terms, risks and conditions of
the transactions contemplated hereby
and by the other Loan Documents; (ii) (A) each of the Agents, the Arrangers and the Borrower
has been acting solely as a principal and, except as expressly agreed in writing by the relevant
parties, has not been, is not, and will not be acting as an advisor, agent or fiduciary for any
other party hereto, any Affiliates of any other party hereto, or any other Person and (B) none of
the Agents, the Arrangers or the Borrower has any obligation to each other or to their respective
Affiliates with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby except those obligations expressly
set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents; and (iii) the Agents, the Arrangers and their
respective Affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that
differ from those of the Borrower and its Affiliates, and none of the Agents or the Arrangers has
any obligation to disclose any of such interests to the Borrower or its Affiliates. To the fullest
extent permitted by law, the Agents, the Arrangers and the Borrower hereby waive and release any
claims that they may have against each other with respect to any breach or alleged breach of agency
or fiduciary duty in connection with any aspect of any transaction contemplated hereby. Each of
the Agent and the Lenders acknowledges and agrees that it has consulted its own legal, accounting,
regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it has deemed appropriate.



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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed by their
respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above written.



	 	 	 	 	 
	 	THE DETROIT EDISON COMPANY

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Name:  	 	 
	 	 	Title:  	 	 
	 	Borrower’s FEIN: 38-0478650
 	 



Signature Page to

The Detroit Edison Company

Amended and Restated Five-Year Credit Agreement




	 	 	 	 	 


 


 









 






	 	 	 	 	 
	 	Lenders





BARCLAYS BANK PLC, as Agent and as a Lender

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Name:  	 	 
	 	 	Title:  	 	 
	 
	 	CITIBANK, N.A., as a Lender

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Name:  	 	 
	 	 	Title:  	 	 
	 
	 	JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,

as a Lender

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Name:  	 	 
	 	 	Title:  	 	 
	 
	 	THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND plc,

as a Lender

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Name:  	 	 
	 	 	Title:  	 	 



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The Detroit Edison Company

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	 	BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as a Lender

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Name:  	 	 
	 	 	Title:  	 	 



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	 	[OTHER LENDERS], as a Lender

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Name:  	 	 
	 	 	Title:  	 	 



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	 	Each of the undersigned Departing Lenders hereby

acknowledges and agrees that, from and after the

Effective Date, it is no longer a party to the

Existing Credit Agreement and will not be a party

to this Agreement



[DEPARTING LENDER], as a Departing Lender

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Name:  	 	 
	 	 	Title:  	 	 



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SCHEDULE I




THE DETROIT EDISON COMPANY

APPLICABLE LENDING OFFICES




	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Name of Initial Lender	 	Domestic Lending Office	 	Eurodollar Lending Office	 	Commitment	 
	Barclays Bank PLC

	 	745 Seventh Avenue,
26th
Floor 

New York, NY 10019

Attention: Alicia Borys/Zivile Zekaite

Telephone: (212) 320-6136

Facsimile: (917) 522-0569
	 	Same as Domestic Lending

Office
	 	$	25,333,333.33	 
	Citibank, N.A.

	 	1615 Brett Road

OPS 3

New Castle, DE 19720

Attention: Charles Huester

Telephone: (302) 864-6010

Facsimile: (212) 816-8098
	 	388 Greenwich St.,

New York, NY 10013

Attention: Nick Perazza

Telephone: (302) 894-6110

Facsimile: (212) 994-0847
	 	$	25,333,333.33	 
	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

	 	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

10 South Dearborn Street

Mail Code IL1-0010

Chicago, IL 60603

Attention: Non-Agented Servicing Team

Telephone: (312) 385-7072

Facsimile: (312) 256-2608
	 	Same as Domestic Lending

Office
	 	$	25,333,333.33	 
	The Royal Bank of
Scotland plc

	 	600 Washington Boulevard

Stamford, CT 06901

Attention: Emily Freedman

Telephone: (203) 897-3749
	 	Same as Domestic Lending

Office
	 	$	21,333,333.34	 
	Bank of America, N.A.

	 	Bank of America, N.A.

100 North Tryon Street

NC1-007-17-18

Charlotte, NC 28255

Attention: Patrick Martin

Telephone: (980) 388-6894

Facsimile: (415) 503-5058
	 	Same as Domestic Lending

Office
	 	$	21,333,333.34	 
	The Bank of Nova Scotia

	 	1 Liberty Plaza, Floors 23-26

165 Broadway

New York, NY 10006

Attention: Benjamin Thomas

Telephone: (212) 225-5178

Facsimile: (212) 225-5355
	 	Same as Domestic Lending

Office
	 	$	21,333,333.34	 
	BNP Paribas

	 	787 Seventh Avenue

New York, NY 10019

Attention: Project Finance & Utilities

Telephone: (212) 841-2000

Facsimile: (212) 841-2146
	 	Same as Domestic Lending

Office
	 	$	15,833,333.33	 





 


 









 





	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Name of Initial Lender	 	Domestic Lending Office	 	Eurodollar Lending Office	 	Commitment	 
	The Bank of New York
Mellon

	 	BNY Mellon Center, Rm 3600

500 Grant Street

Pittsburgh, PA 15258-0001

Attention: Hussam S. Alsahlani

Telephone: (412) 234-5624

Telecopier: (412) 236-6112
	 	Same as Domestic Lending

Office
	 	$	15,833,333.33	 
	Deutsche Bank AG New 

York Branch

	 	60 Wall Street, 44th Floor

New York, NY 10005

Attention: Philippe Sandmeier

Telephone: (212) 250-8232

Telecopier: (646) 403-4413
	 	Same as Domestic Lending

Office
	 	$	15,833,333.33	 
	KeyBank National 

Association

	 	127 Public Square

Cleveland, OH 44114

Attention: Marianne Meil

Telephone: (216) 689-3549

Facsimile: (216) 689-4981
	 	Same as Domestic Lending

Office
	 	$	15,833,333.33	 
	UBS Loan Finance LLC

	 	677 Washington Boulevard

Stamford, CT 06901

Attention: Wendy Field
Telephone: (203) 719- 5239

Facsimile: (203) 719-3888
	 	Same as Domestic Lending

Office
	 	$	15,833,333.33	 
	Union Bank, N.A.

	 	Energy Capital Services

445 South Figuroa St.,

15th Floor

Los Angeles, CA 90071

Attention: Jesus Serrano

Telephone: (213) 236-4194

Facsimile: (213) 236-4096
	 	Same as Domestic Lending

Office
	 	$	15,833,333.33	 
	Comerica Bank

	 	3551 Hamlin Rd 

Auburn Hills, MI 48326

Attention: Kimberly Kersten

Telephone: (248) 371-6704

Facsimile: (248) 371-6815
	 	Same as Domestic Lending

Office
	 	$	12,500,000.00	 
	Fifth Third Bank

	 	710 Seminole Road 

MD R17061

Norton Shores, MI 49441

Attention: Randy Wolffis

Telephone: (231) 733-5006

Fascimile: (231) 739-7430
	 	Same as Domestic Lending

Office
	 	$	10,833,333.34	 
	Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

	 	90 S. 7th Street

MAC N9305-077

Minneapolis, MN 55402

Attention: Scott Bjelde

Telephone: (612) 667-6126

Facsimile: (612) 316-0506
	 	Same as Domestic Lending

Office
	 	$	10,833,333.33	 
	The Huntington National 

Bank

	 	41 South High Street
 (HC0735)

Columbus, OH 43215

Attention: Joseph A Tonges

Telephone: (614) 480-3722

Telecopier: (877) 274-8593

	 	Same as Domestic Lending

Office
	 	$	6,666,666.67	 





 


 









 





	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Name of Initial Lender	 	Domestic Lending Office	 	Eurodollar Lending Office	 	Commitment	 
	U.S. Bank National
Association

	 	800 Nicollet Mall

Minneapolis, MN 55402

461 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10017

Attention: Michael Sagges

Telephone: (917) 256-2822

Facsimile: (646) 935-4552
	 	Same as Domestic Lending

Office
	 	$	6,666,666.67	 
	The Northern Trust 

Company

	 	50 South LaSalle Street

Chicago, IL 60603

Attention: Philip McCaulay

Telephone: (312) 557-2816

Facsimile: (312) 557-1425
	 	Same as Domestic Lending

Office
	 	$	6,666,666.67	 
	SunTrust Bank

	 	303 Peachtree St., 4th Floor

Atlanta, GA 30308

Attention: Andrew Johnson

Telephone: (404) 658-4692

Facsimile: (404) 827-6270
	 	Same as Domestic Lending

Office
	 	$	6,666,666.67	 
	Morgan Stanley Bank, N.A.

	 	One Utah Center

201 South Main Street

5th Floor

Salt Lake City, UT 84111

Telephone: (801) 236-3655

Facsimile: (718) 233-0967
	 	Same as Domestic Lending

Office
	 	$	4,166,666.66	 
	TOTAL

	 	 	 	 	 	$	300,000,000.00	 





 


 









 





PRICING SCHEDULE




	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	Level I	 	 	Level II	 	 	Level III	 	 	Level IV	 	 	Level V	 	 	Level VI	 
	 	 	Status	 	 	Status	 	 	Status	 	 	Status	 	 	Status	 	 	Status	 
	Applicable
Percentage
	 	 	0.100	%	 	 	0.125	%	 	 	0.175	%	 	 	0.225	%	 	 	0.275	%	 	 	0.375	%
	Applicable Margin
(Eurodollar Rate)
	 	 	0.90	%	 	 	1.00	%	 	 	1.075	%	 	 	1.275	%	 	 	1.475	%	 	 	1.625	%
	Applicable Margin
(Base Rate)
	 	 	0.00	%	 	 	0.00	%	 	 	0.075	%	 	 	0.275	%	 	 	0.475	%	 	 	0.625	%






For the purposes of this Schedule, the following terms have the following meanings, subject to
the final paragraph of this Schedule:



“Level I Status” exists at any date if, on such date, the Borrower’s Moody’s Rating is A2 or
better or the Borrower’s S&P Rating is A or better.



“Level II Status” exists at any date if, on such date, (i) the Borrower has not qualified for
Level I Status and (ii) the Borrower’s Moody’s Rating is A3 or better or the Borrower’s S&P Rating
is A- or better.



“Level III Status” exists at any date if, on such date, (i) the Borrower has not qualified for
Level I Status or Level II Status and (ii) the Borrower’s Moody’s Rating is Baa1 or better or the
Borrower’s S&P Rating is BBB+ or better.



“Level IV Status” exists at any date if, on such date, (i) the Borrower has not qualified for
Level I Status, Level II Status or Level III Status and (ii) the Borrower’s Moody’s Rating is Baa2
or better or the Borrower’s S&P Rating is BBB or better.



“Level V Status” exists at any date if, on such date, (i) the Borrower has not qualified for
Level I Status, Level II Status, Level III Status or Level IV Status and (ii) the Borrower’s
Moody’s Rating is Baa3 or better or the Borrower’s S&P Rating is BBB- or better.



“Level VI Status” exists at any date if, on such date, the Borrower has not qualified for
Level I Status, Level II Status, Level III Status, Level IV Status or Level V Status.



“Moody’s Rating” means, at any time, the rating issued by Moody’s and then in effect with
respect to the Borrower’s senior unsecured long-term debt securities without third-party credit
enhancement.



“S&P Rating” means, at any time, the rating issued by S&P and then in effect with respect to
the Borrower’s senior unsecured long-term debt securities without third-party credit enhancement.


 


 









 





“Status” means Level I Status, Level II Status, Level III Status, Level IV Status, Level V
Status or Level VI Status.



The Applicable Margin and Applicable Percentage shall be determined in accordance with the
foregoing table based on the Borrower’s Status as determined from its then-current Moody’s and S&P
Ratings. The credit rating in effect on any date for the purposes of this Schedule is that in
effect at the close of business on such date. If at any time the Borrower does not have both a
Moody’s Rating and an S&P Rating, Level VI Status shall exist; provided, however,
that if the credit rating system of Moody’s or S&P shall change, or if either such rating agency
shall cease to be in the business of rating corporate debt obligations, the Borrower and the
Lenders shall negotiate in good faith to amend this Schedule to reflect such changed rating system
or the unavailability of ratings from such rating agency and, pending the effectiveness of any such
amendment, the applicable Status for the Borrower shall be the Borrower’s Status most recently in
effect prior to such change or cessation.



Except as specifically provided above in this Schedule, in the event that a split occurs
between the two ratings, the pricing shall be based upon (x) the higher of the two ratings then
applicable if all such ratings shall be in Level I Status, Level II Status, Level III Status, Level
IV Status or Level V Status and (y) the lower of the two ratings if any of such ratings shall be in
Level VI Status. However, if (x) the split is greater than one level and the lowest rating shall
be in Level III Status, Level IV Status or Level V Status, then the pricing shall be based upon the
rating one level above the lower of the two ratings and (y) the split is greater than one level and
the lowest rating shall be in Level VI Status, then pricing shall be based upon Level VI Status.


 


 









 





EXHIBIT A

FORM OF NOTE




	 	 	 
	U.S.$                    

	 	Dated:                     , 20_____ 







FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, THE DETROIT EDISON COMPANY, a Michigan corporation (the
“Borrower”), HEREBY PROMISES TO PAY to the order of                                          (the
“Lender”) for the account of its Applicable Lending Office on the Termination Date (each as
defined in the Credit Agreement referred to below), the principal sum of U.S.$[amount of
the Lender’s Commitment in figures] or, if less, the aggregate principal amount of the
Revolving Credit Advances made by the Lender to the Borrower pursuant to the Amended and Restated
Five-Year Credit Agreement dated as of October 21, 2011 (as amended or modified from time to time,
the “Credit Agreement”; the terms defined therein being used herein as therein defined)
among the Borrower, the Lender and certain other lenders parties thereto, and Barclays Bank PLC, as
Agent for the Lender and such other lenders outstanding on the Termination Date.



The Borrower promises to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Revolving Credit
Advance from the date of such Revolving Credit Advance until such principal amount is paid in full,
at such interest rates, and payable at such times, as are specified in the Credit Agreement.



Both principal and interest are payable in lawful money of the United States of America to
Barclays Bank PLC, as Agent, at 1301 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY 10019, Account No. 050-019104,
Attention: Zivile Zekaite, in same day funds. Each Revolving Credit Advance owing to the Lender by
the Borrower pursuant to the Credit Agreement, and all payments made on account of principal
thereof, shall be recorded by the Lender and, prior to any transfer hereof, endorsed on the grid
attached hereto which is part of this Promissory Note.



This Promissory Note is one of the Notes referred to in, and is entitled to the benefits of,
the Credit Agreement. The Credit Agreement, among other things, (i) provides for the making of
Revolving Credit Advances by the Lender to the Borrower from time to time in an aggregate amount
not to exceed at any time outstanding the U.S. dollar amount first above mentioned, the
indebtedness of the Borrower resulting from each such Revolving Credit Advance being evidenced by
this Promissory Note, and (ii) contains provisions for acceleration of the maturity hereof upon the
happening of certain stated events and also for prepayments on account of principal hereof prior to
the maturity hereof upon the terms and conditions therein specified.



	 	 	 	 	 
	 	THE DETROIT EDISON COMPANY

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Title: 	 
	 	 	 	 


 


 









 





	 	 	 	 	 



ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL




	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	Unpaid	 	 	 	 
	 	 	Amount of	 	 	Amount of Principal	 	 	Principal	 	 	Notation	 
	Date	 	Advance	 	 	Paid or Prepaid	 	 	Balance	 	 	Made By	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 






 


 









 







EXHIBIT B

FORM OF NOTICE OF BORROWING




Barclays Bank PLC, as Agent for the Lenders parties

to the Credit Agreement referred to below

1301 Sixth Avenue

New York, NY 10019

Attention: Zivile Zekaite




[Date]




Ladies and Gentlemen:



The undersigned, THE DETROIT EDISON COMPANY, refers to the Amended and Restated Five-Year
Credit Agreement dated as of October 21, 2011 (as amended or modified from time to time, the
“Credit Agreement”; the terms defined therein being used herein as therein defined), among
the undersigned, certain Lenders parties thereto and Barclays Bank PLC, as Agent for said Lenders,
and hereby gives you notice, irrevocably, pursuant to Section 2.02 of the Credit Agreement that the
undersigned hereby requests a Borrowing under the Credit Agreement, and in that connection sets
forth below the information relating to such Borrowing (the “Proposed Borrowing”) as
required by Section 2.02(a) of the Credit Agreement:




(i) The Business Day of the Proposed Borrowing is                     ,
 _____.




(ii) The Type of Advances comprising the Proposed Borrowing is [Base Rate
Advances] [Eurodollar Rate Advances].




(iii) The aggregate amount of the Proposed Borrowing is $                    .




[(iv) The initial Interest Period for each Eurodollar Rate Advance made as part
of the Proposed Borrowing is                      month[s].]




(v) [Wire transfer instructions].



The undersigned hereby certifies that the following statements are true on the date hereof,
and will be true on the date of the Proposed Borrowing:




(i) the representations and warranties contained in Section 4.01 of the Credit
Agreement are correct, before and after giving effect to the Proposed Borrowing and to the
application of the proceeds therefrom, as though made on and as of such date;
provided, that, the foregoing certification shall not apply to the representations
and warranties set forth in (x) the last sentence of Section 4.01(e) of the Credit
Agreement, and (y) Section 4.01(f) of the Credit Agreement;


 


 









 






(ii) after giving effect to the application of the proceeds of all Borrowings on such
date (together with any other resources of the Borrower applied together therewith),
no event has occurred and is continuing, or would result from such Proposed Borrowing
or from the application of the proceeds therefrom, that constitutes a Default; and




(iii) the Borrower has not received notice from the Agent on or prior to the date of
such Proposed Borrowing that a mandatory prepayment is required under Section 2.09(b) of the
Credit Agreement (other than any such notice that has been withdrawn in writing by the
Agent).



Very truly yours,




	 	 	 	 	 
	 	THE DETROIT EDISON COMPANY

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	 
Title: [Financial Officer] 	 
	 	 	 	 


 


 









 





	 	 	 	 	 



EXHIBIT C — FORM OF

ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION




ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION





This Assignment and Assumption (the “Assignment and Assumption”) is dated as of the Effective
Date set forth below and is entered into by and between [Insert name of Assignor] (the “Assignor”)
and [Insert name of Assignee] (the “Assignee”). Capitalized terms used but not defined herein
shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement identified below (as amended, the
“Credit Agreement”), receipt of a copy of which is hereby acknowledged by the Assignee. The
Standard Terms and Conditions set forth in Annex 1 attached hereto are hereby agreed to and
incorporated herein by reference and made a part of this Assignment and Assumption as if set forth
herein in full.



For an agreed consideration, the Assignor hereby irrevocably sells and assigns to the
Assignee, and the Assignee hereby irrevocably purchases and assumes from the Assignor, subject to
and in accordance with the Standard Terms and Conditions and the Credit Agreement, as of the
Effective Date inserted by the Administrative Agent as contemplated below (i) all of the Assignor’s
rights and obligations in its capacity as a Lender under the Credit Agreement and any other
documents or instruments delivered pursuant thereto to the extent related to the amount and
percentage interest identified below of all of such outstanding rights and obligations of the
Assignor under the respective facilities identified below (including any guarantees included in
such facilities) and (ii) to the extent permitted to be assigned under applicable law, all claims,
suits, causes of action and any other right of the Assignor (in its capacity as a Lender) against
any Person, whether known or unknown, arising under or in connection with the Credit Agreement, any
other documents or instruments delivered pursuant thereto or the loan transactions governed thereby
or in any way based on or related to any of the foregoing, including contract claims, tort claims,
malpractice claims, statutory claims and all other claims at law or in equity related to the rights
and obligations sold and assigned pursuant to clause (i) above (the rights and obligations sold and
assigned pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) above being referred to herein collectively as the
“Assigned Interest”). Such sale and assignment is without recourse to the Assignor and, except as
expressly provided in this Assignment and Assumption, without representation or warranty by the
Assignor.



	 	 	 	 	 
	1. Assignor:
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 

	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	2. Assignee:
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 

[and is an Affiliate/Approved Fund of [identify Lender]1]
	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	3. Borrower(s):

	 	The Detroit Edison Company	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	4. Administrative Agent:

	 	Barclays Bank PLC, as the
administrative agent under the
Credit Agreement	 	 





 





	 	 	 
	1	 	Select as applicable.




 


 









 





	 	 	 
	5. Credit Agreement:

	 	The Amended and Restated
Five-Year Credit Agreement dated
as of October 21, 2011 among The
Detroit Edison Company, the
Lenders parties thereto, Barclays
Bank PLC, as Administrative
Agent, and the other agents
parties thereto






6. Assigned Interest:



	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Aggregate Amount of	 	 	Amount of	 	Percentage Assigned	 
	Commitment/Loans 	 	 	 Commitment/	 	of	 
	for all Lenders	 	 	Loans Assigned	 	Commitment/Loans2	 
	$ 	 	 	 	$ 
	 		%	 
	$ 	 	 	 	$ 
	 		%	 
	$ 	 	 	 	$
	 		%	






Effective Date:                     
 _____, 20_____ 
[TO BE INSERTED BY ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND WHICH SHALL
BE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF RECORDATION OF TRANSFER IN THE REGISTER THEREFOR.]



The terms set forth in this Assignment and Assumption are hereby agreed to:



	 	 	 	 	 
	 	ASSIGNOR



[NAME OF ASSIGNOR]

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Title: 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	ASSIGNEE



[NAME OF ASSIGNEE]

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Title: 	 
	 	 	 	 



	 	 	 	 	 
	[Consented to and]3 Accepted:	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	BARCLAYS BANK PLC, as Administrative Agent	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 

Title:
	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	[Consented to:]4	 	 





 





	 	 	 
	2	 	Set forth, to at least 9 decimals, as a percentage of
the Commitment/Loans of all Lenders thereunder.

	 
	3	 	To be added only if the consent of the Administrative
Agent is required by the terms of the Credit Agreement.



 


 









 









	 	 	 	 	 
	THE DETROIT EDISON COMPANY	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 

Title:
	 	 





 





	 	 	 
	4	 	To be added only if the consent of the Borrower is
required by the terms of the Credit Agreement.





 


 









 







ANNEX I




STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR


ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION





1. Representations and Warranties.



1.1 Assignor. The Assignor (a) represents and warrants that (i) it is the legal and
beneficial owner of the Assigned Interest, (ii) the Assigned Interest is free and clear of any
lien, encumbrance or other adverse claim and (iii) it has full power and authority, and has taken
all action necessary, to execute and deliver this Assignment and Assumption and to consummate the
transactions contemplated hereby; and (b) assumes no responsibility with respect to (i) any
statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with the Credit Agreement or any
other Loan Document, (ii) the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness,
sufficiency or value of the Loan Documents or any collateral thereunder, (iii) the financial
condition of the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any other Person obligated in
respect of any Loan Document or (iv) the performance or observance by the Borrower, any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any other Person of any of their respective obligations under any
Loan Document.



1.2. Assignee. The Assignee (a) represents and warrants that (i) it has full power and
authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this Assignment and
Assumption and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and to become a Lender under the
Credit Agreement, (ii) it satisfies the requirements, if any, specified in the Credit Agreement
that are required to be satisfied by it in order to acquire the Assigned Interest and become a
Lender, (iii) from and after the Effective Date, it shall be bound by the provisions of the Credit
Agreement as a Lender thereunder and, to the extent of the Assigned Interest, shall have the
obligations of a Lender thereunder, and (iv) it has received a copy of the Credit Agreement,
together with copies of the most recent financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.01
thereof, as applicable, and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to
make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment and Assumption and to
purchase the Assigned Interest on the basis of which it has made such analysis and decision
independently and without reliance on the Administrative Agent or any other Lender; and (b) agrees
that (i) it will, independently and without reliance on the Administrative Agent, the Assignor or
any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the
time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under the Loan
Documents, and (ii) it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by
the terms of the Loan Documents are required to be performed by it as a Lender.


 


 









 





2. Payments. From and after the Effective Date, the Administrative Agent shall make all
payments in respect of the Assigned Interest (including payments of principal, interest, fees and
other amounts) to the Assignor for amounts which have accrued to but excluding the Effective Date
and to the Assignee for amounts which have accrued from and after the Effective Date.



3. General Provisions. This Assignment and Assumption shall be binding upon, and inure to the
benefit of, the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. This
Assignment and Assumption may be executed in any number of counterparts, which together shall
constitute one instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this
Assignment and Assumption by telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed
counterpart of this Assignment and Assumption. This Assignment and Assumption shall be governed
by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York.


 


 









 





EXHIBIT D — FORM OF CERTIFICATE BY BORROWER




DTE ENERGY COMPANY

THE DETROIT EDISON COMPANY

MICHIGAN CONSOLIDATED GAS COMPANY

OFFICER’S CERTIFICATE




I, David R. Murphy, Assistant Treasurer of DTE ENERGY COMPANY (“DTE”), THE DETROIT EDISON
COMPANY (“DECO”) and MICHIGAN CONSOLIDATED GAS COMPANY (“MichCon”), each a Michigan corporation
(each a “Borrower” and collectively the “Borrowers”), DO HEREBY CERTIFY, pursuant to Section 3.01
of each of (i) the Amended and Restated Five-Year Credit Agreement (the “DTE Credit
Agreement”), dated as of October 21, 2011, among DTE, the financial institutions from time to
time parties thereto as “Lenders” and Citibank, N.A. (“Citibank”), as agent for said
Lenders, (ii) the Amended and Restated Five-Year Credit Agreement (the “DECO Credit
Agreement”), dated as of October 21, 2011, among DECO, the financial institutions from time to
time parties thereto as “Lenders” and Barclays Bank PLC (“Barclays”), as agent for said
Lenders, and (iii) the Amended and Restated Five-Year Credit Agreement (the “MichCon Credit
Agreement”, and, together with the DTE Credit Agreement and the DECO Credit Agreement, the
“Credit Agreements”), dated as of October 21, 2011, among MichCon, the financial
institutions from time to time parties thereto as “Lenders” and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
(“JPMCB”), as agent for said Lenders, that the terms defined in the Credit Agreements are
used herein as therein defined and, further, that:




1. The Effective Date shall be October 21, 2011.



2. The representations and warranties contained in Section 4.01 of each of the Credit
Agreements are true and correct on and as of the date hereof.




3. No event has occurred and is continuing that constitutes a Default.



4. As of the date hereof, there are no loans or letters of credit outstanding under the
Terminating Agreements and all fees and amounts owed to the lenders or agents thereunder have been
paid in full (or, in respect of any letters of credit thereunder, such letters of credit have been
assigned or transferred to the DTE Credit Agreement (such that each such letter of credit
constitutes a “Facility LC” thereunder)).


 


 









 






Dated as of the                      day of                                         , 2011.



	 	 	 	 	 
	 	DTE ENERGY COMPANY

THE DETROIT EDISON COMPANY

MICHIGAN CONSOLIDATED GAS COMPANY

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Name:  	David R. Murphy 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Assistant Treasurer 	 


 


 









 






EXHIBIT E-1 — FORM OF




OPINION OF GENERAL COUNSEL TO THE BORROWER




October 21, 2011




To each of the Lenders party to the

Credit Agreement defined below

The Detroit Edison Company





Ladies and Gentlemen:



This opinion is furnished to you pursuant to Section 3.01(g)(v) of the Amended and Restated
Five-Year Credit Agreement (the “Credit Agreement”), dated as of October 21, 2011, among
The Detroit Edison Company (the “Borrower”), the financial institutions from time to time
parties thereto as “Lenders” and Barclays Bank PLC (the “Agent”), as agent for said
Lenders. Terms defined in the Credit Agreement are used herein as therein defined.



I am the General Counsel of the Borrower, and have acted as counsel for the Borrower in
connection with the preparation, execution and delivery of the Loan Documents.




In that connection, I, in conjunction with the members of my staff, have examined:




(i) Each Loan Document, executed by each of the parties thereto.




(ii) The other documents furnished by the Borrower pursuant to Article III of the
Credit Agreement.




(iii) The Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Borrower and all amendments thereto
(the “Charter”).




(iv) The Bylaws of the Borrower and all amendments thereto (the “Bylaws”).




(v) A certificate from the State of Michigan attesting to the continued corporate
existence and good standing of the Borrower.



In addition, I have examined the originals or copies certified to my satisfaction, of such other
corporate records of the Borrower, certificates of public officials and of officers of the
Borrower, and agreements, instruments and other documents, as I have deemed necessary as a basis
for the opinions expressed below. As to questions of fact material to such opinions, I have, when
relevant facts were not independently established by me, relied upon certificates of public
officials. I have assumed the due execution and delivery, pursuant to due authorization, of the
Credit Agreement by the Lenders and the Agent.



My opinions expressed below are limited to the law of the State of Michigan and the federal
law of the United States.


 


 









 





Based upon the foregoing and upon such investigation as I have deemed necessary, I am of the
following opinion:



1. The Borrower is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under
the laws of the State of Michigan.



2. The execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of the Loan Documents to which it
is party, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, are within the Borrower’s
corporate powers, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action, and do not
contravene (i) the Charter or the Bylaws, (ii) any law, rule or regulation applicable to the
Borrower, or (iii) any contractual restriction binding on or affecting the Borrower.



3. No consent, authorization or approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with,
any Governmental Authority or regulatory body or any other third party is required for the due
execution, delivery, recordation, filing or performance by the Borrower of the Loan Documents to
which it is a party, except the order of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which has been
obtained.



4. The Credit Agreement has been, and each of the Notes when delivered will have been, duly
executed and delivered on behalf of the Borrower.



5. Except as may have been disclosed to you in the SEC Reports, to the best of my knowledge
(after due inquiry) there are no pending or overtly threatened actions or proceedings affecting the
Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries before any court, governmental agency or arbitrator
that (i) could be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) purport to affect the
legality, validity, or enforceability of any Loan Documents to which the Borrower is a party or the
consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby.



6. In a properly presented case, a Michigan court or a federal court sitting in the State of
Michigan applying Michigan choice of law rules should give effect to the choice of law provisions
of the Loan Documents and should hold that the Loan Documents are to be governed by the laws of the
State of New York rather than the laws of the State of Michigan. In rendering the foregoing
opinion, I note that by their terms the Loan Documents expressly select New York law as the laws
governing their interpretation and that the Loan Documents governed by New York law were delivered
by the parties thereto to the Agent in New York. The choice of law provisions of the Loan
Documents are not voidable under the laws of the State of Michigan.



7. If, despite the provisions of Section 8.09 of the Credit Agreement, wherein the parties
thereto agree that the Loan Documents shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the
laws of the State of New York, a court of the State of Michigan or a federal court sitting in the
State of Michigan were to hold that the Loan Documents are governed by, and to be construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of Michigan, the Loan Documents would be, under the laws of
the State of Michigan, legal, valid and binding obligations of the Borrower, enforceable against
the Borrower in accordance with their respective terms.



8. Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is an “investment company,” or an
“affiliated person” of, or “promoter” or “principal underwriter” for, an “investment company,” as
such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended;


 


 









 






The opinions set forth above are subject to the following qualifications:



(a) My opinion in paragraph 7 above as to enforceability is
subject to the effect of any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium or laws affecting
creditors’ rights generally.



(b) My opinion in paragraph 7 above as to enforceability is
subject to the effect of general principles of equity, including,
without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good
faith and fair dealing (regardless of whether considered in a
proceeding in equity or at law).



(c) I express no opinion as to participation and the effect of
the law of any jurisdiction other than the State of Michigan wherein
any Lender may be located or wherein enforcement of the Loan
Documents may be sought that limits the rates of interest legally
chargeable or collectible.



I am a member of the Bar of the State of Michigan, and do not express any opinion concerning
any law other than the law of the State of Michigan and the federal laws of the United States of
America.



This opinion letter is rendered to you in connection with the above-described transaction.
This opinion letter may not be relied upon by you for any other purpose, or relied upon by any
other person or entity without my prior written consent (provided, that this opinion letter may be
furnished to and relied upon by a subsequent assignee of, or participant under, the Credit
Agreement and a Note, if any, solely for the purpose of such assignment or participation, subject
to the assumptions, limitations and qualifications, set forth herein, without any prior written
consent). I undertake no duty to inform you or any assignee or participant of events occurring
subsequent to the date hereof.



	 	 	 
	 

	 	Very truly yours,





 


 









 





EXHIBIT E-2 — FORM OF

OPINION OF HUNTON & WILLIAMS LLP




	 
	October 21, 2011







To each of the Lenders party to the

Credit Agreements defined below

DTE Energy Company

The Detroit Edison Company

Michigan Consolidated Gas Company




Ladies and Gentlemen:



This opinion is delivered to you pursuant to Section 3.01(g)(v) of each of (i) the Amended and
Restated Five-Year Credit Agreement (the “DTE Credit Agreement”), dated as of October 21,
2011, among DTE Energy Company (“DTE”), the financial institutions from time to time
parties thereto as “Lenders” and Citibank, N.A. (“Citibank”), as agent for said Lenders,
(ii) the Amended and Restated Five-Year Credit Agreement (the “DECO Credit Agreement”),
dated as of October 21, 2011, among The Detroit Edison Company (“DECO”), the financial
institutions from time to time parties thereto as “Lenders” and Barclays Bank PLC
(“Barclays”), as agent for said Lenders, and (iii) the Amended and Restated Five-Year
Credit Agreement (the “MichCon Credit Agreement”, and, together with the DTE Credit
Agreement and the DECO Credit Agreement, the “Credit Agreements”), dated as of October 21,
2011, among Michigan Consolidated Gas Company (“MichCon”), the financial institutions from
time to time parties thereto as “Lenders” and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (“JPMCB”), as agent
for said Lenders. Terms used herein which are defined in each Credit Agreement shall have the
respective meanings set forth in each Credit Agreement, unless otherwise defined herein.



We have acted as special counsel to the Borrowers in connection with the preparation,
execution and delivery of the Credit Agreements.



In connection with this opinion we have examined a copy of each Credit Agreement signed by
each of the parties thereto. We have also examined the originals, or duplicates or certified or
conformed copies, of such records, agreements, instruments and other documents and have made such
other investigations as we have deemed relevant and necessary in connection with the opinions
expressed herein. As to questions of fact material to this opinion, we have relied upon
certificates of public officials and of officers and representatives of the Borrowers. In
addition, we have examined, and have relied as to matters of fact upon, the representations made in
the Credit Agreements.


 


 









 





In rendering the opinions set forth below, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures,
the legal capacity of natural persons, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as
originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as duplicates or
certified or conformed copies, and the authenticity of the originals of such latter documents. We
have assumed without independent investigation that (a) the Loan Documents have been duly
authorized, executed and delivered by the Borrowers, (b) the Borrowers have been duly incorporated
and are validly existing and in good standing under the laws of their jurisdictions of
incorporation and have the corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and perform their
obligations under the Loan Documents, (c) the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan
Documents by each Borrower party thereto (i) have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate
action on their part, (ii) do not contravene their certificates of incorporation or by-laws or,
except as opined upon in paragraph 2 below, violate, or require any consent not obtained under, any
applicable law or regulation or any order, writ, injunction or decree of any court or other
Governmental Authority binding upon any of them and (iii) do not violate, or require any consent
not obtained under, any contractual obligation applicable to or binding upon any of them, and (d)
the Credit Agreements constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of the applicable Agent
and the applicable Lenders.



Based upon and subject to the foregoing, and subject to the assumptions, qualifications and
comments set forth herein, we are of the opinion that:



1. Each of the Credit Agreements is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower
party thereto, enforceable against such Borrower in accordance with its respective terms. Each of
the respective Notes issued on the date hereof, if any, is the legal, valid and binding obligation
of the issuing Borrower, enforceable against such Borrower in accordance with its terms.



2. The execution, delivery and performance by each of the Borrowers of the Loan Documents to
which it is a party will not violate any Federal or New York statute or any rule or regulation
issued pursuant to any Federal or New York statute.



Our opinion in paragraph 1 above is subject to (i) the effect of any applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium or laws affecting creditors’ rights
generally, (ii) general equitable principles (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in a
proceeding in equity or at law) and (iii) an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing.



We express no opinion with respect to: (a) the effect of any provision of the Loan Documents
that is intended (i) to establish any standard as the measure of the performance by any party
thereto of such party’s obligations of good faith, diligence, fair dealing, reasonableness or care
or (ii) to permit modification thereof only by means of an agreement in writing signed by the
parties thereto; (b) the effect of any provision of the Loan Documents insofar as it provides that
any Person purchasing a participation from a Lender or other Person may exercise set-off or similar
rights with respect to such participation or that any Lender or other Person may exercise set-off
or similar rights other than in accordance with applicable law; (c) the effect of any provision of
the Loan Documents imposing penalties or forfeitures; (d) the effect of any provision of the Loan
Documents relating to indemnification or exculpation in connection with
violations of any securities laws or relating to indemnification, contribution or exculpation
in connection with willful, reckless or criminal acts or gross negligence of the indemnified or
exculpated Person or the Person receiving contribution; (e) any provision of the Loan Documents
which purports to provide for a waiver by the Borrowers of any immunity, defense or right which may
be available to the Borrowers; and (f) any provision of the Loan Documents which purports to
establish an evidentiary standard for determinations by any Person.


 


 









 





In connection with the provisions of the Credit Agreements whereby the Borrowers submit to the
jurisdiction of the courts of the United States of America located in the State of New York, we
note the limitations of 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 and 1332 on subject matter jurisdiction of the Federal
courts. In connection with the provisions of the Credit Agreements that relate to forum selection
(including, without limitation, any waiver of any objection to venue or any objection that a court
is an inconvenient forum), we note that under NYCPLR § 510, a New York State court may have
discretion to transfer the place of trial, and under 28 U.S.C. §1404(a), a United States District
Court has discretion to transfer an action from one Federal court to another.



We are members of the Bar of the State of New York, and we do not express any opinion
concerning any law other than Federal law and the law of the State of New York.



This opinion letter is rendered to you in connection with the above-described transactions.
This opinion letter may not be relied upon by you for any other purpose, or relied upon by any
other person or entity without our prior written consent (provided, that this opinion Letter may be
furnished to and relied upon by a subsequent assignee of, or participant under, the Credit
Agreements and a Note, if any, solely for the purpose of such assignment or participation, subject
to the assumptions, limitations and qualifications set forth herein without our prior written
consent). This opinion letter speaks only as of its date, there is no assurance that it will be
correct as of any date after its date, and we undertake no duty to inform you or any assignee or
participant of events occurring subsequent to the date hereof.



	 	 	 
	 

	 	Very truly yours,






 


 









 







EXHIBIT F — FORM OF

COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE




COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE





			
	To:	 	The Lenders parties to the

Credit Agreement Described Below






This Compliance Certificate is furnished pursuant to that certain Amended and Restated
Five-Year Credit Agreement, dated as of October 21, 2011 (as amended or modified from time to time,
the “Agreement”) among The Detroit Edison Company, a Michigan corporation (the
“Borrower”), the lenders parties thereto, and Barclays Bank PLC, as Agent for the lenders.
Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms used in this Compliance Certificate have the
meanings ascribed thereto in the Agreement.




THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY CERTIFIES THAT:




1. I am the duly elected                      of the Borrower;



2. I have reviewed the terms of the Agreement and I have made, or have caused to be made under
my supervision, a detailed review of the transactions and conditions of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries during the accounting period covered by the attached financial statements;



3. The examinations described in paragraph 2 did not disclose, and I have no knowledge of, the
existence of any condition or event which constitutes an Event of Default or Default during or at
the end of the accounting period covered by the attached financial statements or as of the date of
this Certificate, except as set forth below; and



4. Schedule 1 attached hereto sets forth financial data and computations evidencing the
Borrower’s compliance with certain covenants of the Agreement, all of which data and computations
are true, complete and correct.



Described below are the exceptions, if any, to paragraph 3 by listing, in detail, the nature
of the condition or event, the period during which it has existed and the action which the Borrower
has taken, is taking, or proposes to take with respect to each such condition or event:



The foregoing certifications, together with the computations set forth in Schedule I hereto
and the financial statements delivered with this Certificate in support hereof, are made and
delivered this
 _____ 
day of _____,
 _____.



	 	 	 	 	 
	 	THE DETROIT EDISON COMPANY

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Name:  	 	 
	 	 	Title:  	 	 


 


 









 





	 	 	 	 	 



SCHEDULE 1 TO COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE




Compliance as of                     , ____ with

Provisions of Section 5.01(h) of

the Agreement




FINANCIAL COVENANT




Ratio of Total Funded Debt to Capitalization (Section 6.01(i)).




	 	 	 	 	 
	(A) Numerator (Total Funded Debt):
	 	 	 	 
	(i) Debt for borrowed money or which has been
incurred in connection with the acquisition of
assets (exclusive of contingent reimbursement
obligations in respect of letters of credit
and bankers’ acceptances):
	 	 	$                    	 
	(ii) Minus: Nonrecourse Debt:
	 	 	- $                    	 
	(iii) Minus: Junior Subordinated Debt:
	 	 	- $                    	 
	(iv) Minus: Mandatorily Convertible
Securities:
	 	 	- $                    	 
	(v) Minus: Hybrid Equity Securities:
	 	 	- $                    	 
	(vi) Plus: Capital lease obligations:
	 	 	+ $                    	 
	(vii) Plus: Guaranty Obligations of Funded
Debt of other Persons:
	 	 	+ $                    	 
	(viii) Numerator: (A)(i) minus (A)(ii)
through (A)(v) plus (A)(vi) plus (A)(vii):
	 	 	$                     	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	(B) Denominator (Capitalization):
	 	 	 	 
	(i) Total Funded Debt: (A)(viii)
	 		$                     	 
	(ii) Plus: Consolidated Net Worth:
	 	 	+ $                    	 
	(iii) Denominator: (B)(i) plus (B)(ii):
	 	 	$                     	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	(C) State whether the ratio of (A)(viii) to (B)(iii) was
not greater than .65:1:
	 	YES/NO






 


 









 







EXHIBIT G — FORM OF

LENDER SUPPLEMENT




LENDER SUPPLEMENT




Dated ____________ ____, 20___




Reference is made to that certain Amended and Restated Five-Year Credit Agreement, dated as of
October 21, 2011 (as amended or modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”) among
The Detroit Edison Company, a Michigan corporation (the “Borrower”), the lenders parties
thereto (the “Lenders”), and Barclays Bank PLC, as agent for the Lenders (the
“Agent”). Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms used in this Lender
Supplement have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Credit Agreement.



Pursuant to Section 2.04(c) of the Credit Agreement, the Borrower has requested an increase in
the aggregate Commitments from $                     to $                    . Such increase in the aggregate
Commitments is to become effective on the date (the “Effective Date”) which is the later of
(i)                     
 _____, 20_____ and (ii) the date on which the conditions set forth in Section
2.04(c) in respect of such increase have been satisfied. In connection with such requested
increase in the aggregate Commitments, the Borrower, the Agent and                      (the
“Accepting Bank”) hereby agree as follows:



1. Effective as of the Effective Date, [the Accepting Bank shall become a party to the
Credit Agreement as a Lender and shall have all of the rights and obligations of a Lender
thereunder and shall thereupon have a Commitment under and for purposes of the Credit Agreement in
an amount equal to the] [the Commitment of the Accepting Bank under the Credit
Agreement shall be increased from $                     to the] amount set forth opposite the
Accepting Bank’s name on the signature page hereof.



[2. The Accepting Bank hereby (a) represents and warrants that (i) it has full power
and authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this Lender Supplement
and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and to become a Lender under the Credit
Agreement, (ii) it satisfies the requirements, if any, specified in the Credit Agreement that are
required to be satisfied by it in order to acquire an interest thereunder and become a Lender,
(iii) from and after the Effective Date, it shall be bound by the provisions of the Credit
Agreement as a Lender thereunder and, to the extent of its interest thereunder, shall have the
obligations of a Lender thereunder, (iv) it has received a copy of the Credit Agreement, together
with copies of the most recent financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.01 thereof, as
applicable, and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own
credit analysis and decision to enter into this Lender Supplement and to purchase an interest under
the Credit Agreement on the basis of which it has made such analysis and decision independently and
without reliance on the Agent or any other Lender, and (v) attaches any U.S. Internal Revenue
Service forms required under Section 2.13 of the Credit Agreement; and (b) agrees that (i) it will,
independently and without reliance on the Agent or any other Lender, and based on such documents
and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions
in taking or not taking action under the Loan Documents, and (ii) it
will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by the terms of the
Loan Documents are required to be performed by it as a Lender.]5


 


 









 





[3.] The Borrower hereby represents and warrants that as of the date hereof
and as of the Effective Date, (a) all representations and warranties of the Borrower contained in
Section 4.01 of the Credit Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects as though
made on such date; provided that, the foregoing representation and warranty, solely with
respect to the representations and warranties set forth in (x) the last sentence of Section 4.01(e)
of the Credit Agreement and (y) Section 4.01(f) of the Credit Agreement, shall be made only as of
the “Effective Date” (as such term is defined in the Credit Agreement); and (b) no event shall have
occurred and then be continuing which constitutes a Default.



[4.] THIS LENDER SUPPLEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.



[5.] This Lender Supplement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each
of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which taken together shall constitute one and the
same instrument.



IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Lender Supplement to be executed by
their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above written.




	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	THE DETROIT EDISON COMPANY, as the Borrower
 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 

	 	 











Consented to and Accepted:



BARCLAYS BANK PLC, as Agent




	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	By:
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 

	 	 






	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	COMMITMENT	 	ACCEPTING BANK	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	$	 	[BANK]	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 

	 	 







 


	 	 	 
	5	 	To be included only in a Lender Supplement for a new
Lender.



 


 









 









EXHIBIT H — FORM OF

CONVERSION NOTICE




CONVERSION NOTICE




Dated                      ____, 20___




Reference is made to that certain Amended and Restated Five-Year Credit Agreement, dated as of
October 21, 2011 (as amended or modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”) among
The Detroit Edison Company, a Michigan corporation (the “Borrower”), the lenders parties
thereto (the “Lenders”), and Barclays Bank PLC, as agent for the Lenders (the
“Agent”). Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms used in this Lender
Supplement have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Credit Agreement.



Pursuant to Section 2.08 of the Credit Agreement, the Borrower hereby gives notice of its
intent to Convert the Revolving Credit Advances comprising the following Borrowing(s) on dates set
forth below:




	 	(a)	 	Date of Borrowing:                                         

Outstanding principal amount of Borrowing:                                         

Current Type (Base Rate/Eurodollar Rate):                                         

Requested Type (Base Rate/Eurodollar Rate):                                         

Interest Period (if converted Type is Eurodollar Rate):                                         

Requested date of Conversion:                                         







	 	(b)	 	Date of Borrowing:                                         

Outstanding principal amount of Borrowing:                                         

Current Type (Base Rate/Eurodollar Rate):                                         

Requested Type (Base Rate/Eurodollar Rate):                                         

Interest Period (if converted Type is Eurodollar Rate):                                         

Requested date of Conversion:                                         






IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Borrower has caused this Conversion Notice to be executed by its
officer thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above written.






	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	THE DETROIT EDISON COMPANY, as the Borrower
 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 

	 	 





 


 









 





	 	 	 	 	 



EXHIBIT I — FORM OF

PREPAYMENT NOTICE




PREPAYMENT NOTICE




Dated                      ____, 20___





Reference is made to that certain Amended and Restated Five-Year Credit Agreement, dated as of
October 21, 2011 (as amended or modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”) among
The Detroit Edison Company, a Michigan corporation (the “Borrower”), the lenders parties
thereto (the “Lenders”), and Barclays Bank PLC, as agent for the Lenders (the
“Agent”). Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms used in this Lender
Supplement have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Credit Agreement.



Pursuant to Section 2.09 of the Credit Agreement, the Borrower hereby gives notice of its
intent to prepay the outstanding principal amount of the Revolving Credit Advances relating to the
following Borrowing(s) in the following amounts:




	1)	 	Date of Borrowing:                                         

Outstanding principal amount of Borrowing:                                         

Type (Base Rate/Eurodollar Rate):                                         

Aggregate principal amount of prepayment: $                                         








	2)	 	Date of Borrowing:                                         

Outstanding principal amount of Borrowing:                                         

Type (Base Rate/Eurodollar Rate):                                         

Aggregate principal amount of prepayment: $                                         







IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Borrower has caused this Prepayment Notice to be executed by its
officer thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above written.






	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	THE DETROIT EDISON COMPANY, as the Borrower
 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: