IMPORTANT! Save Our Numbers for Text and Phone Alerts
On Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, at 9 a.m. Central, Gulf Coast Electric Cooperative members received a text from 833-417-5291. We encourage our members to save this number in their phones so that our messages are less likely to appear as spam or unknown. You may receive text notifications about important...
On Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, at 9 a.m. Central, Gulf Coast Electric Cooperative members received a text from 833-417-5291.
We encourage our members to save this number in their phones so that our messages are less likely to appear as spam or unknown.
You may receive text notifications about important account and service information, including:
Disconnect notifications. These will include the cut-off date, amount due and amount due date.
Planned outage notifications. These will include the date, as well as estimated start and restoration times.
Right-of-way clearing notifications. Members will receive these notifications about upcoming right-of-way clearing in their area.
When you receive a text from 833-417-5291, you can reply HELP to receive a list of available prompts:
BAL for account balance
BLINK to report blinking lights
OUT to report a power outage
STATUS for an outage update
You may also reply STOP to opt out of text notifications.
Please make sure that we have your current mobile phone number on file so that you can take advantage of these text features and receive important updates from GCEC.
Automated phone calls from GCEC will come from 850-639-2216. We also recommend that our members save this number in their phones so they know when they are receiving an important message from the cooperative.
We are excited to offer these convenient features to our members!
Gulf Coast Electric Cooperative, Inc. (GCEC) is a member-owned cooperative that provides electric service to areas of the Florida panhandle not served by other utilities. GCEC also serves Tyndall Air Force Base in Bay County through a Utilities Privatization Contract with the Federal Government. With this service territory, GCEC has recently purchased a 24,000 square foot facility in Wewahitchka, FL located at 464 Highway 22 on a 6+- acre parcel that will be used as a storage facility and lay down space for needed materials.
GCEC is looking to contract with a company to supply and construct a perimeter security fence around the property to tie in with adjacent GCEC property.
We have provided the proposed future layout of the property for bidding. (Attachment B: Fencing Design) along with the linear footage on the Excel Spreadsheet (Attachment A: Quote)