CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA (Aug. 14, 2020) – Terry Kouba, SVP at Alliant Energy and President of the Iowa Utility Company announces:  

“We have restored power to more than half of our customers who were impacted by Monday’s storms. We will have power available to a significant number of customers who are still without power by the end of the day Tuesday, Aug. 18, and we are working day and night to make it happen even sooner.”  

The unprecedented storm struck central and eastern Iowa on Monday, Aug. 10; Alliant Energy is reporting that more than 700 crews (triple the normal ‘boots on the ground’) are now working on restoration – and more help is arriving every day to assist. To restore services, they will replace more than 2,500 poles across the state – the equivalent of 8 months of work the company normally completes – and they will complete it in just seven days. 

Following the storm, more than 240,000 Alliant Energy customers were originally without service. Joined by crews from across the country, Alliant Energy employees continue to work as quickly and safely as possible to restore all services. 

“We appreciate your patience during this very difficult outage,” added Kouba.

As updates become available, Alliant Energy will continue to share them on Facebook, Twitter and on AlliantEnergy.com.