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Southwestern Electric operations and engineering personnel are addressing outages on what's proven to be a busy Saturday for Illinois utility crews. 

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At 3:45 p.m., Southwestern Electric linemen will replace a damaged pole south of New Douglas. The work will interrupt power to 240 members served by o...

Power supply and demand served as the keynote topic during Southwestern Electric Cooperative’s 84th Annual Meeting of Members, held Saturday, Sept. 10...

A fault affecting Southwestern Electric's Ramsey Substation resulted in members losing power again shortly before 8:30 p.m. Crews have been dispatched...

Southwestern Electric crews have restored power to members served by the cooperative’s Ramsey Substation. If you were affected by the outage and are s...

About 500 Southwestern Electric members served by the cooperative’s Ramsey Substation lost power at 6:40 p.m. Crews have been dispatched to identify t...

Southwestern Electric Cooperative is working with Touchstone Energy and Bellomy Research, Winston-Salem, N.C., to administer a comprehensive member su...

Crews have restored power to Southwestern Electric’s Pocahontas Substation. If you were affected by the outage and your service hasn’t been restored, ...

About 1,100 Southwestern Electric members lost service today when a fault in an Ameren transmission line interrupted power to the cooperative’s Pocaho...

Members served by Southwestern Electric Cooperative’s Pocahontas Substation lost power shortly after 11 a.m. Crews have been dispatched to isolate the...