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Regulatory Matters (Details Textuals) (USD $)
12 Months Ended 0 Months Ended 3 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Dec. 19, 2014
Mar. 31, 2013
Dec. 31, 2013
Sep. 30, 2014
Jul. 30, 2012
Jan. 01, 2014
Sep. 30, 2012
Sep. 26, 2014
Aug. 31, 2013
Nov. 30, 2014
Regulatory Assets [Line Items]                      
Time period required by non-bypassable securitization bond surcharge to recover securitized regulatory asset 14 years                    
Amortization period of cost to achieve deferral 10 years                    
Deferral of investigation and remediation of costs associated with gas utilities former MGP sites 10 years                    
Regulatory liabilities $ 820,000,000us-gaap_RegulatoryLiabilities     $ 1,164,000,000us-gaap_RegulatoryLiabilities              
Refundable Revenue Decoupling [Member]                      
Regulatory Assets [Line Items]                      
Regulatory liabilities 67,000,000us-gaap_RegulatoryLiabilities
/ us-gaap_RegulatoryLiabilityAxis
= dte_RefundableRevenueDecouplingMember
    127,000,000us-gaap_RegulatoryLiabilities
/ us-gaap_RegulatoryLiabilityAxis
= dte_RefundableRevenueDecouplingMember
             
Electric [Member]                      
Regulatory Assets [Line Items]                      
Fermi 2 production level of full capacity           68.00%dte_Fermi2ProductionLevelofFullCapacity
/ dei_LegalEntityAxis
= dte_ElectricMember
         
Maximum of challenged Fermi 2 outage charges         32,000,000dte_MaximumofchallengedFermi2outagecharges
/ dei_LegalEntityAxis
= dte_ElectricMember
           
Electric [Member] | Refundable Revenue Decoupling [Member]                      
Regulatory Assets [Line Items]                      
Regulatory liabilities               127,000,000us-gaap_RegulatoryLiabilities
/ dei_LegalEntityAxis
= dte_ElectricMember
/ us-gaap_RegulatoryLiabilityAxis
= dte_RefundableRevenueDecouplingMember
     
Monthly amount to amortize from liability to income             10,600,000dte_MonthlyAmountToAmortizeFromLiabilityToIncome
/ dei_LegalEntityAxis
= dte_ElectricMember
/ us-gaap_RegulatoryLiabilityAxis
= dte_RefundableRevenueDecouplingMember
       
MPSC [Member] | Electric [Member]                      
Regulatory Assets [Line Items]                      
Public utilities, requested rate increase (decrease)   370,000,000us-gaap_PublicUtilitiesRequestedRateIncreaseDecreaseAmount
/ dei_LegalEntityAxis
= dte_ElectricMember
/ us-gaap_RegulatoryAgencyAxis
= dte_MPSCMember
                 
Rate increase previously authorized by the MPSC challenged by Court of Appeals reopened by the MPSC                   11,000,000dte_RateincreasepreviouslyauthorizedbytheMPSCchallengedbyCourtofAppealsreopenedbytheMPSC
/ dei_LegalEntityAxis
= dte_ElectricMember
/ us-gaap_RegulatoryAgencyAxis
= dte_MPSCMember
 
Approved recovery amount for customer 360                 215,000,000dte_ApprovedRecoveryAmountforCustomer360
/ dei_LegalEntityAxis
= dte_ElectricMember
/ us-gaap_RegulatoryAgencyAxis
= dte_MPSCMember
   
Approved amortization period for customer 360 recovery 15 years                    
PSCR under-recovery from 2 plan years prior     87,000,000dte_PscrUnderRecoveryFromTwoPlanYearsPrior
/ dei_LegalEntityAxis
= dte_ElectricMember
/ us-gaap_RegulatoryAgencyAxis
= dte_MPSCMember
               
PSCR under-recovery from 3 plan years prior     148,000,000dte_PSCRunderrecoveryfromThreePlanYearsPrior
/ dei_LegalEntityAxis
= dte_ElectricMember
/ us-gaap_RegulatoryAgencyAxis
= dte_MPSCMember
               
MPSC [Member] | Gas [Member]                      
Regulatory Assets [Line Items]                      
Infrastructure recovery mechanism surcharge                     $ 47,000,000dte_InfrastructureRecoveryMechanismsurcharge
/ dei_LegalEntityAxis
= dte_GasMember
/ us-gaap_RegulatoryAgencyAxis
= dte_MPSCMember