Wednesday | January 20, 2021
300 Madison County Members Without Service
About 300 members in Madison County lost power at 10:45 a.m. Southwestern crews have been dispatched to identify the source of the outage and make rep...
Friday | January 15, 2021
High Winds Present Downed-Wire Dangers
The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory for Southwestern Illinois. Be alert for sagging or fallen lines, and treat every powerl...
Thursday | December 31, 2020
Southwestern Operations Update: COVID-19 Response
Southwestern Electric Cooperative will continue to keep coronavirus mitigation measures in place through January. “To protect the health and safety of...
Thursday | December 31, 2020
Year-End System Maintenance
Southwestern’s online billing center will be unavailable from noon Thursday, December 31, through 1 a.m. Friday, January 1, while we perform year-end ...
Friday | December 18, 2020
Automobile Accident Interrupts Power to 260 Members
About 260 members in Effingham and Fayette counties lost power shortly before 6 p.m. when a car struck a utility pole near Southwestern Electric Coope...
Wednesday | November 25, 2020
500 Ramsey Area Members Lose Power
About 500 Fayette County members lost service at 3:30 p.m. when power was interrupted to Southwestern Electric Cooperative's Ramsey Substation.
Tuesday | October 27, 2020
Southwestern Operations Update: COVID-19 Response
Southwestern Electric will continue to keep coronavirus mitigation measures in place through the end of 2020.
Sunday | October 18, 2020
475 Madison County Members Without Power
About 475 members served by Southwestern’s Worden Substation are without power this evening. Shortly after 4:30 p.m., a fault triggered a breaker oper...
Thursday | September 17, 2020
Payment Processing Systems Unavailable During Oct. 16-18 Maintenance
Southwestern Electric Cooperative’s payment processing systems will be unavailable from 10 p.m., Friday, Oct. 16, through 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, ...
Monday | September 14, 2020
Annual Meeting Spotlights Service in a Time of COVID-19, Electric Vehicles And Gusewelle Retirement
An early voting option offered by Southwestern Electric Cooperative resulted in the organization’s highest voter turnout in decades, while the co-op’s...