Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Units of DTE Energy Company (NYSE: DTE) (Detroit, Michigan), like many other electric utilities, are closing coal-fired generation while building new gas-fired and renewable generators. When it comes to renewables, however, the Michigan-based utility holding company got there before many of its peers, and its investment dwarfs that of other electric utilities.

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