3 p.m.
Shortly after 2:30 p.m., 1,250 Southwestern Electric members in Fayette County lost service when a fault interrupted power to the cooperative’s Sefton and Confidence Substations. Southwestern’s engineering and operations teams are working with Ameren personnel to isolate the source of the outage.
The outage is affecting Fayette County members from Highway 51 east to the Fayette-Effingham County line.