Des Moines Electricity Outage

At about 2 40 p m more than 126 000 people were without power in des moines according to mid american energy.

Des moines electricity outage. A total of 16 005 people in the iowa city area were without power. West des moines ia zip codes 50265 50266. Midamerican energy company safely meets the energy needs of nearly 1 6 million customers in iowa illinois nebraska and south dakota. Poweroutage us is an ongoing project created to track record and aggregate power outages across the united states.

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. Some parts of des moines electric grid date back as far as the 1800s cownie said. County affected customers customers served percent out. Find out more on our about page.

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. What is power outage. Cownie said he has never seen a storm cause more than 100 000 outages. 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.

It may take up to 20 minutes after reporting your outage before it shows up on the outage map. Midamerican energy reported about 77 000 iowa customers were still without power thursday afternoon with about half of those in the des moines area. Cedar rapids city manager jeff pomeranz said the damage done by monday s storm was more impactful than the 2008 flood which was one of the nation s most expensive natural disasters at the time. Midamerican s electric grid backups rely.

Restoration times are estimates only.