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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...

Southwestern Electric Cooperative will continue to keep coronavirus mitigation measures in place through January. “To protect the health and safety of...

Southwestern’s online billing center will be unavailable from noon Thursday, December 31, through 1 a.m. Friday, January 1, while we perform year-end ...

About 260 members in Effingham and Fayette counties lost power shortly before 6 p.m. when a car struck a utility pole near Southwestern Electric Coope...

About 500 Fayette County members lost service at 3:30 p.m. when power was interrupted to Southwestern Electric Cooperative's Ramsey Substation.

Southwestern Electric will continue to keep coronavirus mitigation measures in place through the end of 2020.

About 475 members served by Southwestern’s Worden Substation are without power this evening. Shortly after 4:30 p.m., a fault triggered a breaker oper...