Even with Trump Administration pressure to keep coal-fired power plants online, DTE Energy has no plans to veer from its published schedule of retiring the first two units of its mammoth coal-fired power plant near Monroe in 2028 and the second pair in 2032.

“DTE’s plan for the Monroe Power Plant is unchanged,” according to a company statement provided to The Blade by Dana St. Coeur, DTE Energy senior communications strategist. “As laid out in our MPSC Michigan Public Service Commission-approved integrated resource plan, we are on track to retire two units in 2028 and the last two units in 2032.”

Though a lot could change over the next three years, President Trump called for a renewed emphasis on coal-fired power as part of an executive order he issued on April 8.

It called upon the U.S

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