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On Wednesday, May 3, there will be a brief planned power outage affecting about 1,500 meters in the Hawkins area beginning at 4:00 p.m. as we perform work on a substation upgrade. We expect this outage to last one hour or less, depending on construction work progress. Construction times and plans can never be exact, but…

A panel of three independent judges recently awarded $18,000 in scholarships as part of Wood County Electric Cooperative’s (WCEC) “Power My World” program. Ten local high school students, residing within WCEC’s 9-county service area, will each receive a $1,500 scholarship towards a college education. Three students will receive $1,000 scholarships towards tuition for a trade/vocational…

Two local students, Noelani Holly and Addison Marcee, were selected as winners of Wood County Electric Co-op’s Essay contest, earning an all-expenses paid trip to Washington, D.C. this summer. They will join more than 150 Texas teens on Youth Tour, June 11-19, 2023. Noelani is the 17-year-old daughter of Davion and Michelle Holly. She attends…

Nonprofits working together to serve the community QUITMAN, February 10, 2023 – Today, two vital regional nonprofit entities, Carter BloodCare and Wood County Electric Cooperative (WCEC), will celebrate the inaugural voyage of Carter BloodCare’s sleek new mobile blood collection bus. It was made possible by a unique set of circumstances and an unlikely collaboration between…

About 300 members attended the Annual Meeting of Wood County Electric Cooperative, Inc., (WCEC), held Friday afternoon, October 7, 2022, at Governor Jim Hogg City Park in Quitman. Prior to the meeting a concert featuring singer/songwriters Meredith Crawford and the Mean Streak was a crowd pleaser. Members were then given an update by WCEC’s GM…