July 9, 2024 - Overnight/early Tuesday morning, power was restored to many of our substations. At this time, power remains out to our Martinsville, Hilltop (Shelby County, south of Center), Hemphill, Six Mile, Holly (San Augustine County), Pendleton and Black Ankle substations from the power supplier. No estimated time of restoral has been provided for these areas. In the interim, crews have been working on storm damage across the system. Approximately 75 extra hands are in route to assist with power restoration.

Update 12 noon: Approximately 2,000 meters are without power currently due to high winds. The National Weather Service has issued a Wind Advisory until 6pm. Northwesterly winds between 20-30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph are expected. Crews are assigned to all current outages and are working as quickly as possible.

Update at 4:45pm: DETEC was able to partner with SWEPCO and swap the majority of the energy load to their circuit. This move restored power to all, but approximately 500 meters in the Paxton area. Crews are now working to reroute the Paxton area. We appreciate your patience.

February 24, 2021 - Many have contacted the cooperative in regards to a lineman accident. Yesterday evening, while restoring power after the winter storm, a lineman was injured, but there was no electrocution. Lineman crews responded appropriately as trained and were able to overcome the incident with only a minor injury. We appreciate your care and concern. Please continue to keep these lineman and their families in your prayers.

Today, crews are focusing on the remaining outages and estimate to have all power restored today.

February 22, 2021 - DETEC is currently reporting 6,567 outages remaining. Today, we expect to wrap up all repairs in Newton, Panola, Sabine and San Augustine Counties. Our larger impacted areas of Nacogdoches and Shelby County are estimated to be all restored by this Friday. Please keep in mind that these are estimates, ideally we hope to complete this worker sooner. We thank you for your patience and support as crews have worked as quickly as possible.