DTE Energy 2014 Annual Report Download - page 141

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of the 1st day of November, 2014, between DTE ENERGY COMPANY, a
corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Michigan (the “Company”), and The Bank of New York Mellon
Trust Company, N.A., as successor trustee (the “Trustee”);
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee an Amended and Restated Indenture, dated as
of April 9, 2001 (the “Original Indenture”), as amended, supplemented or modified (as so amended, supplemented or modified, the
“Indenture”) providing for the issuance by the Company from time to time of its debt securities; and
WHEREAS, the Company now desires to provide for the issuance of a series of its unsecured, senior debt securities pursuant
to the Original Indenture; and
WHEREAS, the Company, in the exercise of the power and authority conferred upon and reserved to it under the provisions of
the Original Indenture, including Section 901 thereof, and pursuant to appropriate resolutions of the Board of Directors, has duly
determined to make, execute and deliver to the Trustee this Supplemental Indenture to the Original Indenture as permitted by Section
201 and Section 301 of the Original Indenture in order to establish the form or terms of, and to provide for the creation and issue of, a
series of its debt securities under the Original Indenture, which shall be known as the “2014 Series G 2.40% Senior Notes due 2019”;
and
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make such debt securities, when executed by the Company and authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent and issued upon the terms and subject to the conditions hereinafter and in the
Original Indenture set forth against payment therefor, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company and to make this
Supplemental Indenture a valid, binding and legal agreement of the Company, have been done;
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH that, in order to establish the terms of a
series of debt securities, and for and in consideration of the premises and of the covenants contained in the Original Indenture and in
this Supplemental Indenture and for other good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, it is mutually covenanted and agreed as follows:
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DEFINITIONS AND OTHER
PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. Definitions. Each capitalized term that is used herein and is defined in the Original Indenture shall have the
meaning specified in the Original Indenture unless such term is otherwise defined herein. The following terms shall have the respective
meanings set forth below:
“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday or Sunday or a day on which commercial banks in the state of New York
or the state of Michigan are required or authorized by law or executive order to be closed.
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