Important Updates

Fuel will be collected on all storage injections and withdrawals, instead of only on summer injections and winter withdrawals.  The storage fuel rate will continue to be updated twice a year based on actual fuel used, with at least seven days notice - just prior to the injection season and just prior to the withdrawal season.  Effective March 1, 2010 the fuel rate on injections will be 1.0% and the fuel rate on withdrawals will be 0.4%.

Fuel will now be collected on wheeling transactions whenever wheeling causes the use of compression.  A “Wheel from Hub to Interconnect” fuel rate will be posted on our web site, with at least one day’s notice, any time we anticipate the need to run compression to accommodate wheeling transactions.  The wheeling fuel rate, when applicable, will be 0.45%.      

Effective fuel rates and fuel rate change notices will be posted on the top right corner of our web site, www.dtegasstorage.com, directly under the log-in panel.      

These changes are being made in order to collect fuel on the operations where fuel is consumed. Fuel is a pass through at Washington 10 and DTE does not benefit from collecting fuel. Washington 10 believes that these changes to how we collect fuel will allocate costs where they are being incurred and lead to less volatility in fuel rates over time. We feel these fuel changes are in the best interest of our long term customers and are in keeping with our goal of providing customer service excellence.

As always, we welcome your feedback and comments! Please feel free to contact us. 

Jeff Holland (313.235.4213), Mark Bering (313.235.6531) or Sandy Schmidt (313.235.1148).

Construction and maintenance activities at W10 have been completed successfully. Operations are back to normal as of December 7 and W10 is accepting nominations for IT/Overrun injections and withdrawals. All injections and withdrawals should be considered reliable.

W10 continues to monitor availability of IT Wheeling from the W10-MichCon point to the W10-Vector point. W10 will only accept nominations for this service to the extent that there are offsetting withdrawal nominations from storage to the W10-MichCon point. Availability of this service should be considered day-to-day and unreliable at this point in time. For more information, contact Jeff Holland (313.235.4213) or Mark Bering (313.235.6531).