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South Alabama Electric Cooperative first announced its plan to build a new home in summer 2019. This summer, just 2 years later, members will see those plans come to fruition. Some members may have already noticed the walls and brickwork…

As a not-for-profit utility, South Alabama Electric Cooperative puts our members first in everything. One way we do that is by returning unused funds to members through the capital credits program. This year, SAEC is returning nearly $1.3 million to…

All of us at City Hall would like to wish the citizens of Brundidge a merry Christmas. Thank you for helping us make 2020 another wonderful year. This year has been more challenging than most, so we hope everyone takes…

Vera Tisdale can still remember the first time her family moved into a house with electricity. For her mother, the home in Brantley meant their activities were no longer dictated by the rising and setting of the sun. But as…

The winter months bring with them family holidays, football on TV and an annual visit from Saint Nick. But it can also bring along higher energy costs that come with warding off the colder temperatures and shifting from daylight saving…

By the time he turned 24, Harry Richardson had grown used to being called small. It hadn’t stopped him from serving for 6 years as an Army engineer, but on the hunt for a new job in Memphis, he kept…

South Alabama residents may have noticed signs for a new third-party candidate popping up in front of houses in their neighborhood. Mixed in among the yard signs for one political candidate or another are an increasing number of campaign-style signs…

Like any electric provider, our cooperative aims to make your electric service as reliable as possible. Planned power outages — though rare — help us achieve that goal. First, technological advances allow us to strengthen the grid. Stronger poles and…

If you own a manufactured home, it probably came with an electric furnace. An electric furnace may bring the price of your home down in the short term, but did you know it can lead to increased heating costs over…