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There’s Now Just One Number to Call or Text We’ve changed the telephone number for Outage Texting at WCEC from 857-00 to 866-415-2951. Please note, the old number, 857-00, will no longer work. Save 866-415-2951 in your contacts to use to report outages in the future. When you use this option, there’s no waiting or…

Many of our members are calling, writing and messaging, worried about the media reports of extremely high electricity bills. Electricity consumers that are on variable rate plans, where their kWh rate rises and falls based on market prices that fluctuate with supply and demand, are seeing outrageous bills. WCEC does not have variable rate plans. Most of this is affecting those that…

Thank you for hanging tough with us. Especially to those of you that were without power for extended times. We were extremely fortunate that our system fared exceedingly better than most in Texas and many in our region.  Part of that was thoughtful power planning and system design, attentive maintenance, and then there was the good ole hard work in the bitter…

Members are calling about our plans for rolling outages. If we are directed by the transmission authority, we do have a load shed plan ready.  We’ve come extremely close several times but are thankful we have not had to implement yet. If we do, we’ll communicate on Facebook and on our website. Tonight (2/16) through…

Please keep up the good work conserving. We cannot overstate how critical it is. WCEC is fortunate to be in Southwest Power Pool. Load is very tight but holding. Many others in the state are suffering rolling blackouts. We thank you for continuing to conserve to help us avoid this if at all possible. At…