State officials say power to Alliant Energy customers should be restored by next Tuesday and all MidAmerican Energy customers should have electricity by this weekend. Governor Kim Reynolds says she met Thursday night with executives from Alliant, MidAmerican and I-T-C Midwest — that’s the company that owns hundreds of miles of high-voltage transmission lines that went down during Monday’s storm.  “You’ve got people that are working around the clock. Alliant’s doing a great job. They gave us an update this morning. They’ve moved their timeline up,” Reynolds says. “What we need to do is we need to get power to Iowans and to those that are affected.” Reynolds has asked governors in surrounding states for generators that are powerful enough to run utility substations that receive the power from the high-voltage transmission lines. Oklahoma’s governor is sending two, but Reynolds cautions these are temporary fixes and permanent repairs to the power grid will take some time. Iowa Utilities Board chairwoman Geri Huser says the board just ordered all of the state’s utilities to provide “granular data” to customers about when power will be restored. “In addition, Governor Reynolds asked and MidAmerican Energy and other state utilities responded by offering their resources as they become available to Alliant and ITC Midwest with their repowering efforts to further accelerate the restoration timeline,” Huser says. As of 1:30 this (Friday) afternoon, online data indicates nearly 170-thousand homes and businesses in the state are enduring a fifth day without electricity.