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Southwestern Electric crews continue to make progress in restoring power this afternoon after thousands of Southern Illinois residents lost service th...

Southwestern Electric crews continue to restore power today after thousands of Southern Illinois residents lost service this morning when a severe sto...

During an outage, each member would like to know when their power will be restored so they can plan accordingly. Unfortunately, that’s a difficult que...

A reminder as our crews address outages today: Please submit your outage or damage reports by calling (800) 637-8667 or by using the SWEC IL app. By s...

About 8,500 Southwestern Electric members are without power this morning after a severe storm swept through Illinois, snapping trees, breaking poles a...

Ameren crews will interrupt power to Southwestern Electric’s Hookdale Substation to repair a transmission line south of Greenville. Southwestern membe...

A severe storm that swept through the bistate area this morning has left 8,100 Southwestern Electric members without power. Crews have been dispatched...

Southwestern Electric’s operations and engineering teams worked throughout the afternoon to isolate and address a fault affecting the cooperative's Po...

Southwestern Electric operations and engineering teams continue to work toward identifying the source of a fault affecting the cooperative's Pocahonta...

Ameren and Southwestern operations and engineering teams are on site this afternoon, working to isolate the source of an outage affecting the cooperat...

About 1,100 members served by Southwestern Electric’s Pocahontas Substation have been without power since 10:55 a.m.

As of 11 a.m., about 1,500 Southwestern Electric members are without power, including 1,100 members served by the co-op’s Pocahontas Substation. The s...