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Automobile Accident Interrupts Power to 3,000 Madison County Members

Southwestern Electric crews are in Edwardsville replacing a utility pole damaged by an automobile this morning. Approximately 250 members in the Hamel...

Southwestern Electric crews are in Effingham County this evening replacing a utility pole damaged by an automobile earlier today. Engineering and oper...

Southwestern Electric Cooperative will keep its coronavirus mitigation measures in place through April. The co-op’s response plan calls for lobbies an...

Southwestern Electric crews are working to restore power to 400 members in Madison County after an automobile damaged a utility pole this morning. The...

About 500 Southwestern Electric members in Madison County lost power shortly before 2 p.m. when a piece of excavating equipment broke a power line eas...

The National Weather Service forecast calls for steady winds Thursday and Friday with gusts reaching 35 mph. Strong winds may bring down branches and ...

A fault in an Ameren transmission line briefly interrupted power to about 2,200 Southwestern Electric members in the Troy area shortly before 10:15 a....

Southwestern Electric Cooperative will continue to keep coronavirus mitigation measures in place through February. “Since my last update, not much has...

Mastercard has resolved issues with their billing system. Payments made with Mastercard should now process correctly.

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...

​​​​​​​The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory for Southwestern Illinois. Be alert for sagging or fallen lines, and treat every powerl...