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Tuesday | January 26, 2021
Mastercard Processing Issue Resolved
Mastercard has resolved issues with their billing system. Payments made with Mastercard should now process correctly.
Wednesday | January 20, 2021
300 Madison County Members Without Service
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...
Friday | January 15, 2021
High Winds Present Downed-Wire Dangers
The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory for Southwestern Illinois. Be alert for sagging or fallen lines, and treat every powerl...
Thursday | December 31, 2020
Southwestern Operations Update: COVID-19 Response
Southwestern Electric Cooperative will continue to keep coronavirus mitigation measures in place through January. “To protect the health and safety of...
Thursday | December 31, 2020
Year-End System Maintenance
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 ...
Saturday | December 19, 2020
Automobile Accident Interrupts Power to 260 Members
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...
Wednesday | November 25, 2020
500 Ramsey Area Members Lose Power
About 500 Fayette County members lost service at 3:30 p.m. when power was interrupted to Southwestern Electric Cooperative's Ramsey Substation.
Tuesday | October 27, 2020
Southwestern Operations Update: COVID-19 Response
Southwestern Electric will continue to keep coronavirus mitigation measures in place through the end of 2020.
Sunday | October 18, 2020
475 Madison County Members Without Power
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...
Thursday | September 17, 2020
Payment Processing Systems Unavailable During Oct. 16-18 Maintenance
Southwestern Electric Cooperative’s payment processing systems will be unavailable from 10 p.m., Friday, Oct. 16, through 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, ...
Monday | September 14, 2020
Annual Meeting Spotlights Service in a Time of COVID-19, Electric Vehicles And Gusewelle Retirement
An early voting option offered by Southwestern Electric Cooperative resulted in the organization’s highest voter turnout in decades, while the co-op’s...
Monday | August 31, 2020
Damaged Equipment Interrupts Service to 140 Members
About 140 members in Bond and Madison counties are without power this morning. The service interruption is expected to last about two hours...