Upshur Rural
Electric Cooperative
Serving East Texans
since 1937.
👻🎃 **Halloween & Holiday Electrical Safety Tips!** 🎄✨
As the spooky season and holidays approach, it’s important to keep safety in mind when decorating your home! Check out our new **Halloween & Holiday Electric Safety** video, filled with simple but crucial tips to help keep you and your family safe during the festivities.
⚡ **Watch the video now** and learn:
- How to safely light up your Halloween decorations 🎃
- The right way to handle electrical cords and outlets 🔌
- Holiday decorating do's and don’ts for a safe celebration 🎄
Keep your Halloween spooky *but safe* and your holidays bright *but hazard-free*!
#SafetyFirst #HalloweenSafety #HolidaySafety #URECC
Current grid conditions of the Southwest Power Pool:
Resource Advisory
SPP is extending the Resource Advisory for the entire Balancing Authority through an anticipated end time of Wednesday, October 9 at 7:00 p.m. CT. The Resource Advisory went into effect Monday, October 7 at 12:00 p.m. CT.
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Resource Advisories do not require the public to conserve energy but are issued to raise awareness of potential threats to reliability among entities responsible for operating transmission and generation facilities.
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This Resource Advisory is being declared based on forecasts of potentially high peak loads due to unseasonably warm temperatures, possible low output from wind and other variable energy resources (*also known as low VER forecast) leading into peak hours and an increase in planned resource outages.
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To mitigate risks to reliability associated with these factors, SPP may use greater unit commitment notification timeframes, including making commitments before standard day-ahead market procedures and/or committing resources in reliability status.
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SPP will send additional information if necessary.
The following chart shows the relative severity of Resource Advisories:
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Senior Citizen URECC Members:
At URECC, if you are 65 years of age or older and have no outstanding account balance with the Cooperative (or another utility for the same service) during the past two years, NO DEPOSIT is required on NEW or EXISTING accounts! Call Member Services at 903-843-2536.
URECC is proud to answer the call for mutual aid!
We've dispatched two 7 men crews to Satilla EMC in Alma, Georgia to assist with restoration efforts following Hurricane Helene.
One of the seven cooperative principles is “Cooperation Among Cooperatives,” and mutual aid truly exemplifies this spirit. We believe that together, we are stronger. Safe travels to our team! #MutualAid
Pictured L-R: Dakota Dudley, Pat Gordon, Brayden Crisler, Ty Jordan, Colter Hettich, Tristan Hogue, Spencer Seahorn, Dalberto Lara, Raciel Orona, Austin Stamback, Martin Aguillon, Jacob Weems, Ty Patterson, and Colton “Bubba” Jones.
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Please remember that contact with a downed power line can be deadly. Always assume a power line is energized. Please report any downed lines.
URECC Safety & Education Publications
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