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

A mechanical issue affecting Southwestern Electric’s Peters Substation resulted in blinking lights for several hundred co-op members in the areas of C...

Fayette County members affected by this morning’s transmission line outage, which interrupted power to Southwestern’s Sefton and Confidence substation...

Southwestern Electric crews and Ameren personnel have identified a transmission line fault that interrupted power to the cooperative’s Sefton and Conf...

An Ameren transmission line fault interrupted power to Southwestern Electric Cooperative’s Sefton and Confidence substations shortly before 5 a.m., le...

A storm that moved across Southern Illinois this morning has left close to 1,650 Fayette County members without power. Crews have been dispatched to s...

More than 1,100 Southwestern Electric members remain without power this evening after a strong storm damaged an Ameren transmission line which supplie...

Strong storms that swept across Southern Illinois this evening have left 1,150 Southwestern Electric members without power.

Crews restored power to 1,450 members overnight, and remain in the field this morning, working to restore power to 50 co-op members.

Southwestern Electric is asking members who are still without power to prepare for an overnight outage. Members who depend on electricity to power a m...

Crews have restored power to 7,000 members today after severe storms brought down trees and broke poles and power lines this morning. About 1,500 Sout...

Crews have restored power to 6,740 members. To expedite repairs, Southwestern has recruited assistance from contract crews and three Illinois Electric...