DTE Energy Technologies, an unregulated subsidiary of DTE EnergyCo., reached a distribution agreement with Waukesha, WI- basedGENERAC Power Systems, a manufacturer of prepackaged standby powersystems for homes and small businesses.

DTE will market the prepackaged Generac GUARDIAN product, whichprovides fully automatic standby power for homes and smallbusinesses, as well as custom-designed engineered systems forlarger commercial and industrial customers in SoutheasternMichigan.

The standby power system operates on natural or LP gas withrated power ranges of 6 kilowatts (kW) to 40 kW. Each unit includesan automatic transfer switch, which transfers household current tothe generator when utility power shuts down. Once power isrestored, the electrical load automatically is switched back to theutility power source.

The fully enclosed transfer switch is mounted in close proximityto the home’s main circuit breaker panel and serves as a relaystation during a power failure. At the core of its distributedgeneration product suite, DTE Energy Technologies is the four-state(Michigan, Illinois, Ohio and Indiana) distributor of the PlugPower fuel cell, which will be available and marketed toresidential customers in early 2001.

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