Oct 14, 2026 · 24 min · 10 segments
Ann Arbor City Council Urges "No" Vote on Proposal E - Councilmember Jen Eyer (D-Ward 4); Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor; Matt Grocoff, Energy Expert / SustaintableA2.org - Ann Arbor's Proposal E…
Christopher TaylorGuest
Matt GrocoffGuest
Lucy Ann LanceHost
Jen EyerGuest
I, so [sighs] this is a really complex issue that really [laughs] takes a lot more time than, than the few minutes we have on air now.
But, uh, n- number one, the, the, the, the amount of poles and things that we would need to acquire, and what would we, we, we would be acquiring, is not what is needed for a modernized renewable energy grid of the future.
30 years ago, DTE should have started this process of upgrading the poles and being ready for it, like we did at Viridian at County Farm, where we have Michigan's first ever virtual power plant.
They've lost this neighborhood of customers, right? Um, but being a virtual power plant now, this can be beneficial to the grid.
What is needed on that grid now, in order to connect people to be 100% run by electricity in every building, so all of that power that used to come from gas, from their, from their cars even, when they brought that energy from the gas station to your garage, now that energy has to come from the plug, from the outlet.
Where is the power coming from in that outlet? DTE des- DTE's grid was not designed for that.
DTE's grid was designed for the 1912 power structure, which was a centralized coal plant with giant transmission lines, with giant transformers.
I, so [sighs] this is a really complex issue that really [laughs] takes a lot more time than, than the few minutes we have on air now.
But, uh, n- number one, the, the, the, the amount of poles and things that we would need to acquire, and what would we, we, we would be acquiring, is not what is needed for a modernized renewable energy grid of the future.
30 years ago, DTE should have started this process of upgrading the poles and being ready for it, like we did at Viridian at County Farm, where we have Michigan's first ever virtual power plant.
They've lost this neighborhood of customers, right? Um, but being a virtual power plant now, this can be beneficial to the grid.
What is needed on that grid now, in order to connect people to be 100% run by electricity in every building, so all of that power that used to come from gas, from their, from their cars even, when they brought that energy from the gas station to your garage, now that energy has to come from the plug, from the outlet.
Where is the power coming from in that outlet? DTE des- DTE's grid was not designed for that.
DTE's grid was designed for the 1912 power structure, which was a centralized coal plant with giant transmission lines, with giant transformers.
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