July 25, 2023 – 9:50 am Outage in Corinth-Vershire area restored. July 25, 2023 – 7:30 am WEC is experiencing an outage in the Corinth-Vershire area affecting roughly 215 members. Crews are on the way to assess the situation and begin restoration. More information will be posted as available. Thank you for your patience.
RESTORED – Outage – 7/19/23
July 19, 2023 – 11:47 am Green Mountain Power crews have successfully restored power to WEC’s Moretown substation. Thank you to GMP and to our members for their patience. July 19, 2023 – 11:30 am The Green Mountain Power line serving WEC’s Moretown substation is offline. GMP is working on resolving the issue and WEC crews are standing by to …
RESTORED – Outages – 7/13-14/23
July 14, 2023 – 10 am WEC crews worked through the night and have restored power to virtually all members in out territory! Hopefully, additional rain and thunderstorms forecast for the coming days will not cause more outages, but soggy ground and trees already weakened by recent flooding make our system vulnerable right now. About 3,000 Vermonters around the state …
RESTORED – Outages – 7/12/23
July 12, 2023 – 2 pm Power has been restored to all but four WEC members and crews are working on or headed to those locations now. We will have significant clean-up and final repairs to do in the coming days, and there may well be new outages if there is additional flood or thunderstorm damage. July 12, 2023 – …
Outages – 7/11/23
July 11, 2023 – 9 pm Line crews have been working to repair all of the outages they can access given the condition of roads in our territory and have returned power to nearly 1,000 members so far. However, there remain some areas of damage to our system that are still impossible to access or where damage was so severe …
Outages – 7/10/23
July 10, 2023 – 6 pm There are two significant outages affecting about 150 WEC members right now. One, in the County Road area, is impacting members in Calais and East Montpelier. Crews are working on restoring power and we expect that outage will be resolved by 10 pm. The other outage, in the Berlin Pond area, is impossible to …
Outage – 7/9/23
July 9, 2023 – 7 pm Washington Electric Cooperative is experiencing widespread outages in Calais, East Montpelier, Middlesex, Worcester and smaller outages elsewhere in its territory due to damage from thunderstorms. More than 500 WEC members are without power and crews are working at several locations where there is damage to lines and poles. At least one pole is broken, …
RESTORED: Outage in Roxbury – 6/29/23
June 29 2023 – 12:30 pm The outage in Roxbury caused by a broken pole has been restored. If you see a tree on power lines or lines down, please report it to us: local 802-223-5245 or toll-free 1-800-932-5245.Remember: Do not approach downed lines or trees on lines, as they may still be energized. June 29 2023 – 7:50 am WEC crews are working …
RESTORED: Outages – 6/20/2023
WEC Outage Map June 20, 10:30 am Power has been restored to the 600+ members affected by this morning’s outage. The outage was caused early this morning by a tree interacting with the power lines, damaging a pole in the process. This pole and the one adjacent will be replaced over the next several days. Thank you for your patience …
WEC Warns Members of Phone Scam
June 19, 2023 Washington Electric Cooperative, Inc.PO Box 840 Church StreetEast Montpelier, VT 05651 Contact: Susan Golden – 802-223-5245 (toll free: 1-800-932-5245) / susan.golden@wec.coop East Montpelier, Vt – At least one member of Washington Electric Cooperative (WEC) has received telephone calls from someone fraudulently representing themselves as a representative of an unnamed utility. The caller claimed the member had overpaid …