Des Moines Electricity Outage

Power outage also called a power cut a power blackout power failure or a blackout is a short term or a long term loss of the electric power to a particular area.

Des moines electricity outage.

What is power outage. Midamerican energy company safely meets the energy needs of nearly 1 6 million customers in iowa illinois nebraska and south dakota. Find out more on our about page. County affected customers customers served percent out.

Cownie said he has never seen a storm cause more than 100 000 outages. At about 2 40 p m more than 126 000 people were without power in des moines according to mid american energy. Click on a state to see more information. County city zip code message.

Des moines based midamerican energy which at one point monday reported more than 275 000 customers without power expects power restoration to be a multi day effort said spokesperson tina hoffman. Midamerican s electric grid backups rely. It may take up to 20 minutes after reporting your outage before it shows up on the outage map. A total of 16 005 people in the iowa city area were without power.

Some parts of des moines electric grid date back as far as the 1800s cownie said. West des moines ia zip codes 50265 50266. While we work on restoring power the estimated restoration time will read under investigation in a major storm or event it can take 24 hours or longer to provide accurate information. Restoration times are estimates only.

Midamerican energy reported about 77 000 iowa customers were still without power thursday afternoon with about half of those in the des moines area.