Natural Gas Service

DTE Energy Natural Gas Benefits

Start DTE Energy Natural Gas Service

Beginning DTE Energy natural gas service is as easy as a phone call or email. Your DTE Energy representative can verify that you live in an eligible area and schedule a transfer.

If you are switching to natural gas from liquid propane, your DTE Energy representative can arrange an estimated cost for installation of a service line and meter (if needed).

To place an order for a natural gas line installation, please call:

Call 800.338.0178 in Southeast Michigan
Call 800.533.6220 in all other areas of Michigan

If you want to start or stop natural gas service to an existing home, please call 800.477.4747.

Know Your Own Power, Natural Gas

What Is Natural Gas?

Natural gas is a fossil fuel, a naturally occurring hydrocarbon compound that’s almost entirely methane (although it does contain small amounts of other gases). Natural gas accumulates in reservoirs of porous rock deep underground.

Cleaner Source of Energy

Natural gas is the cleanest burning of all fossil fuels. When it’s extracted from the ground, a small amount of pollutants are removed before it enters the gas supply. As it burns, its blue flame produces water and carbon dioxide.

Where Does Natural Gas I Use Come From?

The United States is major producer of natural gas, helping to fuel our homes and economy. In fact, 85 percent of the natural gas used in our country is produced in the US. The rest we import from Canada through pipelines or by ship (as liquefied natural gas).

Easy to Extract

Natural gas production doesn’t disturb the surrounding area as it is extracted. Sites are quickly restored to their original state once production ends.

Locating Natural Gas Reserves

Finding natural gas underground is a real treasure hunt. Instead of using a pirate’s map, however, the industry uses many scientific disciplines to locate reserves accurately.

In the US alone, it’s estimated there are trillions of cubic feet of potentially recoverable natural gas resources in “unconventional sources.” This included low permeability tight sandstones, gas shales and coal bed methane formations.

Not only does this expand our energy reservoirs, it benefits everyone in other ways. For instance, our DTE Methane Resources subsidiary produces 12 million cubic foot per day of pipeline quality gas from coal bed methane formations. The harmful greenhouse gases destroyed by this project are equal to the carbon removed from the atmosphere by more than 210,000 acres of pine forests.