Corn Belt Energy Rate 11 customers to experience power outage Thursday, August 30th

 

[August 29, 2018] 

Corn Belt Energy has scheduled a power disruption for residential members who are enrolled in the "Rate 11 load control program."

Rate 11 members will experience an interruption in electrical service tomorrow, August 30, 2018, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. This interruption will allow Corn Belt Energy to test the functionality of the equipment and load profile of all participants due to not scheduling an interrupt this summer.

Participating members should contact us at 800-879-0339 if their power has not been restored by 5:15 PM on Thursday, August 30, 2018.

This outage could impact rural residents in Logan, DeWitt, McLean, and Sangamon Counties.

Started in 1938 to bring electricity to rural Central Illinois, Corn Belt Energy Corporation now distributes electricity to over 36,000 households and businesses throughout 18 counties.

One of the largest cooperatives in Illinois, Corn Belt Energy employs 85 people, maintains over 5,000 miles of line, and distributes electricity from the Wabash Valley Power Association, a generation and transmission cooperative based in Indiana. As a not-for-profit energy cooperative, Corn Belt Energy is owned by the members it serves and is committed to providing reliable, affordable energy. Governed by 13 directors who are themselves residential members, Corn Belt also supports energy efficiency, education, and safety initiatives. Learn more at www.cornbeltenergy.com. 

[Hillary Cherry, CCC
Director of Communications & Marketing
Corn Belt Energy Corporation.]