INDENTURE DATED AS OF July 1, 2014 _______________ DTE ELECTRIC COMPANY formerly known as The Detroit Edison Company (One Energy Plaza, Detroit, Michigan 48226) TO THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. (719 Griswold Street, Suite 930, Detroit, Michigan 48226) AS TRUSTEE _______________ SUPPLEMENTAL TO MORTGAGE AND DEED OF TRUST DATED AS OF OCTOBER 1, 1924 PROVIDING FOR (A) GENERAL AND REFUNDING MORTGAGE BONDS, 2014 SERIES D AND 2014 SERIES E AND (B) RECORDING AND FILING DATA

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of the 1st day of July, in the year 2014, between DTE ELECTRIC COMPANY, formerly known as The Detroit Edison Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Michigan and a public utility (hereinafter called the “Company”), party of the first part, and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., a trust company organized and existing under the laws of the United States, having a corporate trust agency office at 719 Griswold Street, Suite 930, Detroit, Michigan 48226, as successor Trustee under the Mortgage and Deed of Trust hereinafter mentioned (hereinafter called the “Trustee”), party of the second part.

WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered its Mortgage and Deed of Trust (hereinafter referred to as the “Original Indenture”), dated as of October 1, 1924, to the Trustee, for the security of all bonds of the Company outstanding thereunder, and pursuant to the terms and provisions of the Original Indenture, indentures dated as of, respectively, June 1, 1925, August 1, 1927, February 1, 1931, June 1, 1931, October 1, 1932, September 25, 1935, September 1, 1936, November 1, 1936, February 1, 1940, December 1, 1940, September 1, 1947, March 1, 1950, November 15, 1951, January 15, 1953, May 1, 1953, March 15, 1954, May 15, 1955, August 15, 1957, June 1, 1959, December 1, 1966, October 1, 1968, December 1, 1969, July 1, 1970, December 15, 1970, June 15, 1971, November 15, 1971, January 15, 1973, May 1, 1974, October 1, 1974, January 15, 1975, November 1, 1975, December 15, 1975, February 1, 1976, June 15, 1976, July 15, 1976, February 15, 1977, March 1, 1977, June 15, 1977, July 1, 1977, October 1, 1977, June 1, 1978, October 15, 1978, March 15, 1979, July 1, 1979, September 1, 1979, September 15, 1979, January 1, 1980, April 1, 1980, August 15, 1980, August 1, 1981, November 1, 1981, June 30, 1982, August 15, 1982, June 1, 1983, October 1, 1984, May 1, 1985, May 15, 1985, October 15, 1985, April 1, 1986, August 15, 1986, November 30, 1986, January 31, 1987, April 1, 1987, August 15, 1987, November 30, 1987, June 15, 1989, July 15, 1989, December 1, 1989, February 15, 1990, November 1, 1990, April 1, 1991, May 1, 1991, May 15, 1991, September 1, 1991, November 1, 1991, January 15, 1992, February 29, 1992, April 15, 1992, July 15, 1992, July 31, 1992, November 30, 1992, December 15, 1992, January 1, 1993, March 1, 1993, March 15, 1993, April 1, 1993, April 26, 1993, May 31, 1993, June 30, 1993, June 30, 1993, September 15, 1993, March 1, 1994, June 15, 1994, August 15, 1994, December 1, 1994, August 1, 1995, August 1, 1999, August 15, 1999, January 1, 2000, April 15, 2000, August 1, 2000, March 15, 2001, May 1, 2001, August 15, 2001, September 15, 2001, September 17, 2002, October 15, 2002, December 1, 2002, August 1, 2003, March 15, 2004, July 1, 2004, February 1, 2005, April 1, 2005, August 1, 2005, September 15, 2005, September 30, 2005, May 15, 2006, December 1, 2006, December 1, 2007, April 1, 2008, May 1, 2008, June 1, 2008, July 1, 2008, October 1, 2008, December 1, 2008, March 15, 2009, November 1, 2009, August 1, 2010, September 1, 2010, December 1, 2010, March 1, 2011, May 15, 2011, August 1, 2011, August 15, 2011, September 1, 2011, June 20, 2012, March 15, 2013, August 1, 2013 and June 1, 2014 supplemental to the Original Indenture, have heretofore been entered into between the Company and the Trustee (the Original Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto together being hereinafter sometimes referred to as the “Indenture”); and

WHEREAS, the Indenture provides that said bonds shall be issuable in one or more series, and makes provision that the rates of interest and dates for the payment thereof, the date of maturity or dates of maturity, if of serial maturity, the terms and rates of optional redemption (if redeemable), the forms of registered bonds without coupons of any series and any other provisions and agreements in respect thereof, in the Indenture provided and permitted, as the Board of Directors may determine, may be expressed in a supplemental indenture to be made by the Company to the Trustee thereunder; and

WHEREAS, bonds in the principal amount of Sixteen billion, two hundred eighty-eight million, fifty-seven thousand dollars ($16,288,057,000) have heretofore been issued under the indenture as follows, viz:

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accordingly, the Company has issued and has presently outstanding Four billion, nine hundred twenty four million, one hundred eighty-seven thousand dollars ($4,924,187,000) aggregate principal amount of its General and Refunding Mortgage Bonds (the “Bonds”) at the date hereof.

WHEREAS, the Company desires to issue two new series of bonds pursuant to the Indenture; and

WHEREAS, the Company desires by this Supplemental Indenture to create two new series of bonds, to be designated “General and Refunding Mortgage Bonds, 2014 Series D,” in the aggregate principal amount of Three hundred fifty million dollars ($350,000,000), and “General and Refunding Mortgage Bonds, 2014 Series E in the aggregate principal amount of Three hundred fifty million dollars ($350,000,000), to be authenticated and delivered pursuant to Section 4 of Article III of the Indenture; and

WHEREAS, the Original Indenture, by its terms, includes in the property subject to the lien thereof all of the estates and properties, real, personal and mixed, rights, privileges and franchises of every nature and kind and wheresoever situate, then or thereafter owned or possessed by or belonging to the Company or to which it was then or at any time thereafter might be entitled in law or in equity (saving and excepting, however, the property therein specifically excepted or released from the lien thereof), and the Company therein covenanted that it would, upon reasonable request, execute and deliver such further instruments as may be necessary or proper for the better assuring and confirming unto the Trustee all or any part of the trust estate, whether then or thereafter owned or acquired by the Company (saving and excepting, however, property specifically excepted or released from the lien thereof); and

WHEREAS, the Company in the exercise of the powers and authority conferred upon and reserved to it under and by virtue of the provisions of the Indenture, and pursuant to resolutions of its Board of Directors, has duly resolved and determined to make, execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture in the form hereof for the purposes herein provided; and

WHEREAS, all conditions and requirements necessary to make this Supplemental Indenture a valid and legally binding instrument in accordance with its terms have been done, performed and fulfilled, and the execution and delivery hereof have been in all respects duly authorized;

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH: That DTE Electric Company, in consideration of the premises and of the covenants contained in the Indenture and of the sum of One Dollar ($1.00) and other good and valuable consideration to it duly paid by the Trustee at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, hereby covenants and agrees to and with the Trustee and its successors in the trusts under the Original Indenture and in said indentures supplemental thereto as follows:

SECTION 1. The Company hereby creates the three hundred seventy third series of bonds to be issued under and secured by the Original Indenture as amended to date and as further amended by this Supplemental Indenture, to be designated, and to be distinguished from the bonds of all other series, by the title “General and Refunding Mortgage Bonds, 2014 Series D” (elsewhere herein referred to as the “bonds of 2014 Series D”). The aggregate principal amount of bonds of 2014 Series D shall be limited to Three hundred fifty million dollars ($350,000,000), except as provided in Sections 7 and 13 of Article II of the Original Indenture with respect to exchanges and replacements of bonds, and except further that the Company may, without the consent of any holder of the bonds of 2014 Series D, “reopen” the bonds of 2014 Series D, so long as any additional bonds of 2014 Series D have the same tenor and terms as the bonds of 2014 Series D established hereby.

The bonds of 2014 Series D shall be issued as registered bonds without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any larger amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000. The bonds of 2014 Series D shall be issued in the aggregate principal amount of $350,000,000, shall mature on March 1, 2025 (subject to earlier redemption or release) and shall bear interest, payable semi-annually on March 1 and September 1 of each year (commencing September 1, 2014), at the rate of three and three hundred and seventy-five thousandths percent (3.375%) per annum until the principal thereof shall have become due and payable and thereafter until the Company’s obligation with respect to the payment of said principal shall have been discharged as provided in the Indenture. The bonds of 2014 Series D will be issued in book-entry form through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Supplemental Indenture, the bonds of 2014 Series D shall be payable, as to principal, premium, if any, and interest, at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, the City and State of New York, in any coin or currency of the United States of America which at the time of payment is legal tender for public and private debts.

Except as provided herein, each bond of 2014 Series D shall be dated the date of its authentication and interest shall be payable on the principal represented thereby from the March 1 or September 1 next preceding the date to which interest has been paid on bonds of 2014 Series D, unless the bond is authenticated on a date prior to September 1, 2014 in which case interest shall be payable from July 2, 2014.

The bonds of 2014 Series D in definitive form shall be, at the election of the Company, fully engraved or shall be lithographed or printed in authorized denominations as aforesaid and numbered R-1 and upwards (with such further designation as may be appropriate and desirable to indicate by such designation the form, series and denomination of bonds of 2014 Series D). Until bonds of 2014 Series D in definitive form are ready for delivery, the Company may execute, and upon its request in writing the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in lieu thereof, bonds of 2014 Series D in temporary form, as provided in Section 10 of Article II of the Indenture. Temporary bonds of 2014 Series D if any, may be printed and may be issued in authorized denominations in substantially the form of definitive bonds of 2014 Series D, but without a recital of redemption prices and with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for temporary bonds, all as may be determined by the Company.

Interest on any bond of 2014 Series D that is payable on any interest payment date and is punctually paid or duly provided for shall be paid to the person in whose name that bond, or any previous bond to the extent evidencing the same debt as that evidenced by that bond, is registered at the close of business on the regular record date for such interest, which regular record date shall be the fifteenth calendar day (whether or not such day is a business day) immediately preceding the applicable interest payment date. If the Company shall default in the payment of the interest due on any interest payment date on the principal represented by any bond of 2014 Series D, such defaulted interest shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered holder of that bond on the relevant regular record date by virtue of his having been such holder, and such defaulted interest may be paid to the registered holder of that bond (or any bond or bonds of 2014 Series D issued upon transfer or exchange thereof) on the date of payment of such defaulted interest or, at the election of the Company, to the person in whose name that bond (or any bond or bonds of 2014 Series D issued upon transfer or exchange thereof) is registered on a subsequent record date established by notice given by mail by or on behalf of the Company to the holders of bonds of 2014 Series D not less than ten (10) days preceding such subsequent record date, which subsequent record date shall be at least five (5) days prior to the payment date of such defaulted interest. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

If any interest payment date, date of redemption or the stated maturity for the bonds of 2014 Series D would otherwise be a day that is not a business day, payment of principal and/or interest or premium, if any, with respect to the bonds of 2014 Series D will be paid on the next succeeding business day with the same force and effect as if made on such date and no interest on such payment will accrue from and after such date

“Business day” means any day other than a day on which banking institutions in The State of New York or the State of Michigan are authorized or obligated pursuant to law or executive order to close

SECTION 2. Bonds of 2014 Series D will be redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole at any time or in part from time to time at the redemption prices set forth below.

At any time prior to December 1, 2024, the optional redemption price will be equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the bonds of 2014 Series D to be redeemed on the redemption date and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest of the bonds of 2014 Series D to be redeemed on the redemption date (not including any portion of any payments of interest accrued to the redemption date) until stated maturity, in each case discounted from their respective scheduled payment dates to such redemption date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury Rate (as defined below) plus 15 basis points, as determined by the Quotation Agent (as defined below), plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the redemption date.

At any time on or after December 1, 2024, the optional redemption price will be equal to 100% of the principal amount of the bonds of 2014 Series D to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the redemption date.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, installments of interest on the bonds of 2014 Series D that are due and payable on interest payment dates falling on or prior to a redemption date will be payable on the interest payment date to the registered holders as of the close of business on the relevant record date.

“Adjusted Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any optional redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue (as defined below), calculated on the third Business Day preceding such redemption date assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date.

“Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Quotation Agent as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the bonds of 2014 Series D that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the bonds of 2014 Series D.

“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any optional redemption date, (i) the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (ii) if the Quotation Agent obtains fewer than three such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations, or (iii) if only one Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation is received, such quotation.

“Quotation Agent” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Company.

“Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) each of Barclays Capital Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp. and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (or their respective affiliates which are Primary Treasury Dealers), and their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of the foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S. government securities dealer in the United States (a “Primary Treasury Dealer”), the Company will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer, and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealer(s) the Company selects.

“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any optional redemption date, the average, as determined by the Quotation Agent, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Quotation Agent by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such redemption date.

The bonds of 2014 Series D shall be redeemable as aforesaid upon giving notice of such redemption by first class mail, postage prepaid, by or on behalf of the Company at least thirty (30) days, but not more than sixty (60) days, prior to the date fixed for redemption to the registered holders of bonds of 2014 Series D so called for redemption at their last respective addresses appearing on the register thereof, but failure to mail such notice to the registered holders of any bonds of 2014 Series D designated for redemption shall not affect the validity of any such redemption of any other bonds of such series. Interest shall cease to accrue on any bonds of 2014 Series D (or any portion thereof) so called for redemption from and after the date fixed for redemption if payment sufficient to redeem the bonds of 2014 Series D (or such portion) designated for redemption has been duly provided for. Bonds of 2014 Series D redeemed in part only shall be in amounts of $2,000 or any larger amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000.

If the giving of the notice of redemption shall have been completed, or if provision satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of such notice shall have been made, and if the Company shall have deposited with the Trustee in trust funds (which shall have become available for payment to the holders of the bonds of 2014 Series D so to be redeemed) sufficient to redeem bonds of 2014 Series D in whole or in part, on the date fixed for redemption, then all obligations of the Company in respect of such bonds (or portions thereof) so to be redeemed and interest due or to become due thereon shall cease and be discharged and the holders of such bonds of 2014 Series D (or portions thereof) shall thereafter be restricted exclusively to such funds for any and all claims of whatsoever nature on their part under the Indenture or in respect of such bonds (or portions thereof) and interest.

The bonds of 2014 Series D shall not be entitled to or subject to any sinking fund and shall not be redeemable other than as provided in Section 2 hereof.

SECTION 3. At the option of the registered holder, any bonds of 2014 Series D, upon surrender thereof for cancellation at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, the City and State of New York, together with a written instrument of transfer (if so required by the Company or by the Trustee) in form approved by the Company duly executed by the holder or by its duly authorized attorney, shall be exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of bonds of 2014 Series D upon the terms and conditions specified herein and in Section 7 of Article II of the Indenture. The Company waives its rights under Section 7 of Article II of the Indenture not to make exchanges or transfers of bonds of 2014 Series D during any period of ten (10) days next preceding any redemption date for such bonds.

Bonds of 2014 Series D, in definitive and temporary form, may bear such legends as may be necessary to comply with any law or with any rules or regulations made pursuant thereto.

SECTION 4. The bonds of 2014 Series D and the form of Trustee’s Certificate to be endorsed on such bonds shall be substantially in the following forms, respectively:

DTE ELECTRIC COMPANY (hereinafter called the “Company”), a corporation of the State of Michigan, for value received, hereby promises to pay to [Cede & Co.], or registered assigns, at the Company’s office or agency in the Borough of Manhattan, the City and State of New York, the principal sum of _____________ dollars ($_______) in lawful money of the United States of America on March 1, 2025 (subject to earlier redemption or release) and interest thereon at the rate of 3.375% per annum, in like lawful money, from July 2, 2014 and after the first payment of interest on bonds of this Series has been made or otherwise provided for, from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or otherwise provided for, semi-annually on March 1 and September 1 of each year (commencing September 1, 2014), until the Company’s obligation with respect to payment of said principal shall have been discharged, all as provided, to the extent and in the manner specified in the Indenture hereinafter mentioned and in the supplemental indenture pursuant to which this bond has been issued.

This bond is one of an authorized issue of bonds of the Company, unlimited as to amount except as provided in the Indenture hereinafter mentioned or any indentures supplemental thereto, and is one of a series of General and Refunding Mortgage Bonds known as 2014 Series D, limited to an aggregate principal amount of $350,000,000, except as otherwise provided in the Indenture hereinafter mentioned. This bond and all other bonds of said series are issued and to be issued under, and are all equally and ratably secured (except insofar as any sinking, amortization, improvement or analogous fund, established in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture hereinafter mentioned, may afford additional security for the bonds of any particular series and except as provided in Section 3 of Article VI of said Indenture) by an Indenture, dated as of October 1, 1924, duly executed by the Company to The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as successor Trustee, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto (including the Supplemental Indenture dated as of July 1, 2014) reference is hereby made for a description of the properties and franchises mortgaged and conveyed, the nature and extent of the security, the terms and conditions upon which the bonds are issued and under which additional bonds may be issued, and the rights of the holders of the bonds and of the Trustee in respect of such security (which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto, including the Supplemental Indenture dated as of July 1, 2014, are hereinafter collectively called the “Indenture”). As provided in the Indenture, said bonds may be for various principal sums and are issuable in series, which may mature at different times, may bear interest at different rates and may otherwise vary as in said Indenture provided. With the consent of the Company and to the extent permitted by and as provided in the Indenture, the rights and obligations of the Company and of the holders of the bonds and the terms and provisions of the Indenture, or of any indenture supplemental thereto, may be modified or altered in certain respects by affirmative vote of at least eighty-five percent (85%) in amount of the bonds then outstanding, and, if the rights of one or more, but less than all, series of bonds then outstanding are to be affected by the action proposed to be taken, then also by affirmative vote of at least eighty-five percent (85%) in amount of the series of bonds so to be affected (excluding in every instance bonds disqualified from voting by reason of the Company’s interest therein as specified in the Indenture); provided, however, that, without the consent of the holder hereof, no such modification or alteration shall, among other things, affect the terms of payment of the principal of or the interest on this bond, which in those respects is unconditional.

This bond is not subject to repayment at the option of the holder hereof. Except as provided below, this bond is not redeemable by the Company prior to maturity and is not subject to any sinking fund.

This bond will be redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole at any time or in part from time to time at the redemption prices set forth below. At any time prior to December 1, 2024, the optional redemption price will be equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of this bond to be redeemed and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest of this bond to be redeemed (not including any portion of any payments of interest accrued to the optional redemption date) until stated maturity, in each case discounted from their respective scheduled payment dates to such redemption date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury Rate (as defined below) plus 15 basis points, as determined by the Quotation Agent (as defined below), plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the redemption date. At any time on or after December 1, 2024, the optional redemption price will be equal to 100% of the principal amount of this bond to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the redemption date.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, installments of interest on this bond that are due and payable on interest payment dates falling on or prior to a redemption date will be payable on the interest payment date to the registered holders as of the close of business on the relevant record date.

“Adjusted Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any optional redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated on the third Business Day preceding such redemption date assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date.

“Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Quotation Agent as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of this bond that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of this bond.

“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any optional redemption date, (i) the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (ii) if the Quotation Agent obtains fewer than three such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations, or (iii) if only one Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation is received, such quotation.

“Quotation Agent” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Company

“Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) each of Barclays Capital Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (or their respective affiliates which are Primary Treasury Dealers), and their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of the foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S. government securities dealer in the United States (a “Primary Treasury Dealer”), the Company will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer, and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealer(s) the Company selects.

“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any optional redemption date, the average, as determined by the Quotation Agent, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Quotation Agent by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such redemption date.

Notice of any optional redemption will be mailed at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the optional redemption date to the holder hereof at its registered address. If notice has been provided in accordance with the Indenture and funds for the redemption of this bond called for redemption have been made available on the redemption date, this bond will cease to bear interest on the date fixed for redemption. Thereafter, the only right of the holder hereof will be to receive payment of the redemption price.

Under the Indenture, funds may be deposited with the Trustee (which shall have become available for payment), in advance of the redemption date of any of the bonds of 2014 Series D (or portions thereof), in trust for the redemption of such bonds (or portions thereof) and the interest due or to become due thereon, and thereupon all obligations of the Company in respect of such bonds (or portions thereof) so to be redeemed and such interest shall cease and be discharged, and the holders thereof shall thereafter be restricted exclusively to such funds for any and all claims of whatsoever nature on their part under the Indenture or with respect to such bonds (or portions thereof) and interest.

In case an event of default, as defined in the Indenture, shall occur, the principal of all the bonds issued thereunder may become or be declared due and payable, in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided in the Indenture.

The bonds of this series are issuable only in fully registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any larger amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000. This Global Security is exchangeable for bonds in definitive form only under certain limited circumstances set forth in the Indenture. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, bonds of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of bonds of this series of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the registered holder surrendering the same.

This bond is transferable by the registered holder hereof, in person or by his attorney duly authorized in writing, on the books of the Company kept at its office or agency in the Borough of Manhattan, the City and State of New York, upon surrender and cancellation of this bond, and thereupon, a new registered bond of the same series of authorized denominations for a like aggregate principal amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange therefor, and this bond with others in like form may in like manner be exchanged for one or more new bonds of the same series of other authorized denominations, but of the same aggregate principal amount, all as provided and upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture, and upon payment, in any event, of the charges prescribed in the Indenture.

No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or the interest on this bond, or for any claim based hereon or otherwise in respect hereof or of the Indenture, or of any indenture supplemental thereto, against any incorporator, or against any past, present or future stockholder, director or officer, as such, of the Company, or of any predecessor or successor corporation, either directly or through the Company or any such predecessor or successor corporation, whether for amounts unpaid on stock subscriptions or by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise howsoever; all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof, expressly waived and released by every holder or owner hereof, as more fully provided in the Indenture.

This bond shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., the Trustee under the Indenture, or its successor thereunder, shall have signed the form of certificate endorsed hereon.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, DTE ELECTRIC COMPANY has caused this instrument to be executed by an authorized officer, with his or her manual or facsimile signatures, and its corporate seal, or a facsimile thereof, to be impressed or imprinted hereon and the same to be attested by its Corporate Secretary or Assistant Corporate Secretary by manual or facsimile signature.

SECTION 1. The Company hereby creates the three hundred seventy fourth series of bonds to be issued under and secured by the Original Indenture as amended to date and as further amended by this Supplemental Indenture, to be designated, and to be distinguished from the bonds of all other series, by the title “General and Refunding Mortgage Bonds, 2014 Series E” (elsewhere herein referred to as the “bonds of 2014 Series E”). The aggregate principal amount of bonds of 2014 Series E shall be limited to Three hundred fifty million dollars ($350,000,000), except as provided in Sections 7 and 13 of Article II of the Original Indenture with respect to exchanges and replacements of bonds, and except further that the Company may, without the consent of any holder of the bonds of 2014 Series E, “reopen” the bonds of 2014 Series E, so long as any additional bonds of 2014 Series D have the same tenor and terms as the bonds of 2014 Series D established hereby.

The bonds of 2014 Series E shall be issued as registered bonds without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any larger amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000. The bonds of 2014 Series E shall be issued in the aggregate principal amount of $350,000,000, shall mature on July 1, 2044 (subject to earlier redemption or release) and shall bear interest, payable semi-annually on January 1 and July 1 of each year (commencing January 1, 2015), at the rate of four and three hundred thousandths percent (4.300%) per annum until the principal thereof shall have become due and payable and thereafter until the Company’s obligation with respect to the payment of said principal shall have been discharged as provided in the Indenture. The bonds of 2014 Series E will be issued in book-entry form through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Supplemental Indenture, the bonds of 2014 Series E shall be payable, as to principal, premium, if any, and interest, at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, the City and State of New York, in any coin or currency of the United States of America which at the time of payment is legal tender for public and private debts.

Except as provided herein, each bond of 2014 Series E shall be dated the date of its authentication and interest shall be payable on the principal represented thereby from the January 1 or July 1 next preceding the date to which interest has been paid on bonds of 2014 Series E, unless the bond is authenticated on a date prior to January 1, 2015 in which case interest shall be payable from July 2, 2014.

The bonds of 2014 Series E in definitive form shall be, at the election of the Company, fully engraved or shall be lithographed or printed in authorized denominations as aforesaid and numbered R-1 and upwards (with such further designation as may be appropriate and desirable to indicate by such designation the form, series and denomination of bonds of 2014 Series E). Until bonds of 2014 Series E in definitive form are ready for delivery, the Company may execute, and upon its request in writing the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in lieu thereof, bonds of 2014 Series E in temporary form, as provided in Section 10 of Article II of the Indenture. Temporary bonds of 2014 Series E if any, may be printed and may be issued in authorized denominations in substantially the form of definitive bonds of 2014 Series E, but without a recital of redemption prices and with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for temporary bonds, all as may be determined by the Company.

Interest on any bond of 2014 Series E that is payable on any interest payment date and is punctually paid or duly provided for shall be paid to the person in whose name that bond, or any previous bond to the extent evidencing the same debt as that evidenced by that bond, is registered at the close of business on the regular record date for such interest, which regular record date shall be the fifteenth calendar day (whether or not such day is a business day) immediately preceding the applicable interest payment date. If the Company shall default in the payment of the interest due on any interest payment date on the principal represented by any bond of 2014 Series E, such defaulted interest shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered holder of that bond on the relevant regular record date by virtue of his having been such holder, and such defaulted interest may be paid to the registered holder of that bond (or any bond or bonds of 2014 Series E issued upon transfer or exchange thereof) on the date of payment of such defaulted interest or, at the election of the Company, to the person in whose name that bond (or any bond or bonds of 2014 Series E issued upon transfer or exchange thereof) is registered on a subsequent record date established by notice given by mail by or on behalf of the Company to the holders of bonds of 2014 Series E not less than ten (10) days preceding such subsequent record date, which subsequent record date shall be at least five (5) days prior to the payment date of such defaulted interest. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

If any interest payment date, date of redemption or the stated maturity for the bonds of 2014 Series E would otherwise be a day that is not a business day, payment of principal and/or interest or premium, if any, with respect to the bonds of 2014 Series E will be paid on the next succeeding business day with the same force and effect as if made on such date and no interest on such payment will accrue from and after such date

“Business day” means any day other than a day on which banking institutions in The State of New York or the State of Michigan are authorized or obligated pursuant to law or executive order to close

SECTION 2. Bonds of 2014 Series E will be redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole at any time or in part from time to time at the redemption prices set forth below.

At any time prior to January 1, 2044, the optional redemption price will be equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the bonds of 2014 Series E to be redeemed on the redemption date and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest of the bonds of 2014 Series E to be redeemed on the redemption date (not including any portion of any payments of interest accrued to the redemption date) until stated maturity, in each case discounted from their respective scheduled payment dates to such redemption date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury Rate (as defined below) plus 15 basis points, as determined by the Quotation Agent (as defined below), plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the redemption date.

At any time on or after January 1, 2044, the optional redemption price will be equal to 100% of the principal amount of the bonds of 2014 Series E to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the redemption date.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, installments of interest on the bonds of 2014 Series E that are due and payable on interest payment dates falling on or prior to a redemption date will be payable on the interest payment date to the registered holders as of the close of business on the relevant record date.

“Adjusted Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any optional redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue (as defined below), calculated on the third Business Day preceding such redemption date assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date.

“Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Quotation Agent as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the bonds of 2014 Series E that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the bonds of 2014 Series E.

“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any optional redemption date, (i) the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (ii) if the Quotation Agent obtains fewer than three such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations, or (iii) if only one Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation is received, such quotation.

“Quotation Agent” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Company.

“Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) each of Barclays Capital Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (or their respective affiliates which are Primary Treasury Dealers), and their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of the foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S. government securities dealer in the United States (a “Primary Treasury Dealer”), the Company will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer, and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealer(s) the Company selects.

“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any optional redemption date, the average, as determined by the Quotation Agent, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Quotation Agent by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such redemption date.

The bonds of 2014 Series E shall be redeemable as aforesaid upon giving notice of such redemption by first class mail, postage prepaid, by or on behalf of the Company at least thirty (30) days, but not more than sixty (60) days, prior to the date fixed for redemption to the registered holders of bonds of 2014 Series E so called for redemption at their last respective addresses appearing on the register thereof, but failure to mail such notice to the registered holders of any bonds of 2014 Series E designated for redemption shall not affect the validity of any such redemption of any other bonds of such series. Interest shall cease to accrue on any bonds of 2014 Series E (or any portion thereof) so called for redemption from and after the date fixed for redemption if payment sufficient to redeem the bonds of 2014 Series E (or such portion) designated for redemption has been duly provided for. Bonds of 2014 Series E redeemed in part only shall be in amounts of $2,000 or any larger amount that is integral multiple of $1,000.

If the giving of the notice of redemption shall have been completed, or if provision satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of such notice shall have been made, and if the Company shall have deposited with the Trustee in trust funds (which shall have become available for payment to the holders of the bonds of 2014 Series E so to be redeemed) sufficient to redeem bonds of 2014 Series E in whole or in part, on the date fixed for redemption, then all obligations of the Company in respect of such bonds (or portions thereof) so to be redeemed and interest due or to become due thereon shall cease and be discharged and the holders of such bonds of 2014 Series E (or portions thereof) shall thereafter be restricted exclusively to such funds for any and all claims of whatsoever nature on their part under the Indenture or in respect of such bonds (or portions thereof) and interest.

The bonds of 2014 Series E shall not be entitled to or subject to any sinking fund and shall not be redeemable other than as provided in Section 2 hereof.

SECTION 3. At the option of the registered holder, any bonds of 2014 Series E, upon surrender thereof for cancellation at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, the City and State of New York, together with a written instrument of transfer (if so required by the Company or by the Trustee) in form approved by the Company duly executed by the holder or by its duly authorized attorney, shall be exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of bonds of 2014 Series E upon the terms and conditions specified herein and in Section 7 of Article II of the Indenture. The Company waives its rights under Section 7 of Article II of the Indenture not to make exchanges or transfers of bonds of 2014 Series E during any period of ten (10) days next preceding any redemption date for such bonds.

Bonds of 2014 Series E, in definitive and temporary form, may bear such legends as may be necessary to comply with any law or with any rules or regulations made pursuant thereto.

SECTION 4. The bonds of 2014 Series E and the form of Trustee’s Certificate to be endorsed on such bonds shall be substantially in the following forms, respectively:

DTE ELECTRIC COMPANY (hereinafter called the “Company”), a corporation of the State of Michigan, for value received, hereby promises to pay to [Cede & Co.], or registered assigns, at the Company’s office or agency in the Borough of Manhattan, the City and State of New York, the principal sum of ___________ dollars ($_______) in lawful money of the United States of America on July 1, 2044 (subject to earlier redemption or release) and interest thereon at the rate of 4.300% per annum, in like lawful money, from July 2, 2014 and after the first payment of interest on bonds of this Series has been made or otherwise provided for, from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or otherwise provided for, semi-annually on January 1 and July 1 of each year (commencing January 1, 2015), until the Company’s obligation with respect to payment of said principal shall have been discharged, all as provided, to the extent and in the manner specified in the Indenture hereinafter mentioned and in the supplemental indenture pursuant to which this bond has been issued.

This bond is one of an authorized issue of bonds of the Company, unlimited as to amount except as provided in the Indenture hereinafter mentioned or any indentures supplemental thereto, and is one of a series of General and Refunding Mortgage Bonds known as 2014 Series E, limited to an aggregate principal amount of $350,000,000, except as otherwise provided in the Indenture hereinafter mentioned. This bond and all other bonds of said series are issued and to be issued under, and are all equally and ratably secured (except insofar as any sinking, amortization, improvement or analogous fund, established in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture hereinafter mentioned, may afford additional security for the bonds of any particular series and except as provided in Section 3 of Article VI of said Indenture) by an Indenture, dated as of October 1, 1924, duly executed by the Company to The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as successor Trustee, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto (including the Supplemental Indenture dated as of July 1, 2014) reference is hereby made for a description of the properties and franchises mortgaged and conveyed, the nature and extent of the security, the terms and conditions upon which the bonds are issued and under which additional bonds may be issued, and the rights of the holders of the bonds and of the Trustee in respect of such security (which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto, including the Supplemental Indenture dated as of July 1, 2014, are hereinafter collectively called the “Indenture”). As provided in the Indenture, said bonds may be for various principal sums and are issuable in series, which may mature at different times, may bear interest at different rates and may otherwise vary as in said Indenture provided. With the consent of the Company and to the extent permitted by and as provided in the Indenture, the rights and obligations of the Company and of the holders of the bonds and the terms and provisions of the Indenture, or of any indenture supplemental thereto, may be modified or altered in certain respects by affirmative vote of at least eighty-five percent (85%) in amount of the bonds then outstanding, and, if the rights of one or more, but less than all, series of bonds then outstanding are to be affected by the action proposed to be taken, then also by affirmative vote of at least eighty-five percent (85%) in amount of the series of bonds so to be affected (excluding in every instance bonds disqualified from voting by reason of the Company’s interest therein as specified in the Indenture); provided, however, that, without the consent of the holder hereof, no such modification or alteration shall, among other things, affect the terms of payment of the principal of or the interest on this bond, which in those respects is unconditional.

This bond is not subject to repayment at the option of the holder hereof. Except as provided below, this bond is not redeemable by the Company prior to maturity and is not subject to any sinking fund.

This bond will be redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole at any time or in part from time to time at the redemption prices set forth below. At any time prior to January 1, 2044, the optional redemption price will be equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of this bond to be redeemed and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest of this bond to be redeemed (not including any portion of any payments of interest accrued to the optional redemption date) until stated maturity, in each case discounted from their respective scheduled payment dates to such redemption date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury Rate (as defined below) plus 15 basis points, as determined by the Quotation Agent (as defined below), plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the redemption date. At any time on or after January 1, 2044, the optional redemption price will be equal to 100% of the principal amount of this bond to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the redemption date.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, installments of interest on this bond that are due and payable on interest payment dates falling on or prior to a redemption date will be payable on the interest payment date to the registered holders as of the close of business on the relevant record date.

“Adjusted Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any optional redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated on the third Business Day preceding such redemption date assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date.

“Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Quotation Agent as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of this bond that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of this bond.

“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any optional redemption date, (i) the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (ii) if the Quotation Agent obtains fewer than three such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations, or (iii) if only one Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation is received, such quotation.

“Quotation Agent” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Company

“Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) each of Barclays Capital Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (or their respective affiliates which are Primary Treasury Dealers), and their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of the foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S. government securities dealer in the United States (a “Primary Treasury Dealer”), the Company will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer, and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealer(s) the Company selects.

“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any optional redemption date, the average, as determined by the Quotation Agent, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Quotation Agent by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such redemption date.

Notice of any optional redemption will be mailed at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the optional redemption date to the holder hereof at its registered address. If notice has been provided in accordance with the Indenture and funds for the redemption of this bond called for redemption have been made available on the redemption date, this bond will cease to bear interest on the date fixed for redemption. Thereafter, the only right of the holder hereof will be to receive payment of the redemption price.

Under the Indenture, funds may be deposited with the Trustee (which shall have become available for payment), in advance of the redemption date of any of the bonds of 2014 Series E (or portions thereof), in trust for the redemption of such bonds (or portions thereof) and the interest due or to become due thereon, and thereupon all obligations of the Company in respect of such bonds (or portions thereof) so to be redeemed and such interest shall cease and be discharged, and the holders thereof shall thereafter be restricted exclusively to such funds for any and all claims of whatsoever nature on their part under the Indenture or with respect to such bonds (or portions thereof) and interest.

In case an event of default, as defined in the Indenture, shall occur, the principal of all the bonds issued thereunder may become or be declared due and payable, in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided in the Indenture.

The bonds of this series are issuable only in fully registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any larger amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000. This Global Security is exchangeable for bonds in definitive form only under certain limited circumstances set forth in the Indenture. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, bonds of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of bonds of this series of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the registered holder surrendering the same.

This bond is transferable by the registered holder hereof, in person or by his attorney duly authorized in writing, on the books of the Company kept at its office or agency in the Borough of Manhattan, the City and State of New York, upon surrender and cancellation of this bond, and thereupon, a new registered bond of the same series of authorized denominations for a like aggregate principal amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange therefor, and this bond with others in like form may in like manner be exchanged for one or more new bonds of the same series of other authorized denominations, but of the same aggregate principal amount, all as provided and upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture, and upon payment, in any event, of the charges prescribed in the Indenture.

No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or the interest on this bond, or for any claim based hereon or otherwise in respect hereof or of the Indenture, or of any indenture supplemental thereto, against any incorporator, or against any past, present or future stockholder, director or officer, as such, of the Company, or of any predecessor or successor corporation, either directly or through the Company or any such predecessor or successor corporation, whether for amounts unpaid on stock subscriptions or by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise howsoever; all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof, expressly waived and released by every holder or owner hereof, as more fully provided in the Indenture.

This bond shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., the Trustee under the Indenture, or its successor thereunder, shall have signed the form of certificate endorsed hereon.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, DTE ELECTRIC COMPANY has caused this instrument to be executed by an authorized officer, with his or her manual or facsimile signatures, and its corporate seal, or a facsimile thereof, to be impressed or imprinted hereon and the same to be attested by its Corporate Secretary or Assistant Corporate Secretary by manual or facsimile signature.

The Original Indenture and indentures supplemental thereto have been recorded and/or filed and Certificates of Provision for Payment have been recorded as hereinafter set forth.

The Original Indenture has been recorded as a real estate mortgage and filed as a chattel Mortgage in the offices of the respective Registers of Deeds of certain counties in the State of Michigan as set forth in the Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 1, 1947, has been recorded as a real estate mortgage in the office of the Register of Deeds of Mason County, Michigan as set forth in the Supplemental Indenture dated as of June 15, 1971, has been recorded as a real estate mortgage in the office of the Register of Deeds of Genesee County, Michigan as set forth in the Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 1, 1974, has been recorded as a real estate mortgage in the office of the Register of Deeds of Gratiot County, Michigan on June 18, 2012 at Liber 923 Page 772, has been recorded as a real estate mortgage in the office of the Register of Deeds of Midland County, Michigan on June 18, 2012 at Liber 1555 Page 504, has been filed in the Office of the Secretary of State of Michigan on November 16, 1951 and has been filed and recorded in the office of the Interstate Commerce Commission on December 8, 1969.

Pursuant to the terms and provisions of the Original Indenture, indentures supplemental thereto heretofore entered into have been Recorded as a real estate mortgage and/or filed as a chattel mortgage or as a financing statement in the offices of the respective Registers of Deeds of certain counties in the State of Michigan, the Office of the Secretary of State of Michigan and the Office of the Interstate Commerce Commission or the Surface Transportation Board, as set forth in supplemental indentures as follows:

(a) See Supplemental Indenture dated as of July 1, 1970 for Interstate Commerce Commission filing and recordation information.

(b) See Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 1, 1953 for Secretary of State of Michigan filing information.

(c) See Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 1, 1974 for County of Genesee, Michigan recording and filing information.

(d) Recording and filing information for this Supplemental Indenture has not been set forth in a subsequent Supplemental Indenture.

Further, pursuant to the terms and provisions of the Original Indenture, a Supplemental Indenture dated as of June 1, 2014 providing for the terms of bonds to be issued thereunder of 2014 Series A and 2014 Series B has heretofore been entered into between the Company and the Trustee and has been filed in the Office of the Secretary of State of Michigan as a financing statement on June 4, 2014 (Filing No. 2014080781-1), has been filed and recorded in the Office of the Surface Transportation Board on June 4, 2014 (Recordation No. 5485-JJJJJJ), and has been recorded as a real estate mortgage in the offices of the respective Register of Deeds of certain counties in the State of Michigan, as follows:

Certificates of Provision for Payment have been recorded in the offices of the respective Registers of Deeds of certain counties in the State of Michigan, with respect to all bonds of Series D, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, K, L, M, O, W, BB, CC, DDP Nos. 1 and 2, FFR Nos. 1-3, GGP Nos. 1 and 2, IIP No. 1, JJP No. 1, KKP No. 1, LLP No. 1 and GGP No. 8.

The Trustee hereby accepts the trust hereby declared and provided, and agrees to perform the same upon the terms and conditions in the Original Indenture, as amended to date and as supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, and in this Supplemental Indenture set forth, and upon the following terms and conditions:

The Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for and in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or the due execution hereof by the Company or for or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which recitals are made by the Company solely.

Except to the extent specifically provided therein, no provision of this Supplemental Indenture or any future supplemental indenture is intended to modify, and the parties do hereby adopt and confirm, the provisions of Section 318(c) of the Trust Indenture Act which amend and supersede provisions of the Indenture in effect prior to November 15, 1990.

THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE MAY BE SIMULTANEOUSLY EXECUTED IN ANY NUMBER OF COUNTERPARTS, EACH OF WHICH WHEN SO EXECUTED SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE AN ORIGINAL; BUT SUCH COUNTERPARTS SHALL TOGETHER CONSTITUTE BUT ONE AND THE SAME INSTRUMENT.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, DTE ELECTRIC COMPANY AND THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. HAVE CAUSED THESE PRESENTS TO BE SIGNED IN THEIR RESPECTIVE CORPORATE NAMES BY THEIR RESPECTIVE CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD, PRESIDENTS, VICE PRESIDENTS, ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENTS, TREASURERS OR ASSISTANT TREASURERS AND IMPRESSED WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE CORPORATE SEALS, ATTESTED BY THEIR RESPECTIVE SECRETARIES OR ASSISTANT SECRETARIES, ALL AS OF THE DAY AND YEAR FIRST ABOVE WRITTEN.