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Most power outages are measured in minutes or hours. When an ice storm breaks poles and brings down powerlines system-wide, an outage can last for day...

The National Weather Service is forecasting winds gusting to 45 mph and subzero temperatures. These conditions create a high potential for outages. Pl...

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

Southwestern Electric Cooperative's online payment portal has a new address. You'll find it at: https://onlinebilling.sweci.com/onlineportal/.

Our online payment portal will be offline for maintenance Friday, Oct. 7, from 7 a.m. – 7:30 a.m.

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, ...