Take a few minutes to watch this video to see information about the 2021 February "polar vortex," that caused many people across the Midwest to be without power for an extended period of time. Access Energy Cooperative members were alerted to the potential of rolling blackouts due to this weather, but the combined efforts of your cooperative, our transmission cooperative and our generation cooperative averted any rolling blackouts, significant outages, or huge price increases for electricity for our members.