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Utilities

Warren County is naturally set with reputable utility service providers.  Please read below for further details about Warren County’s utility advantage.

Electricity
Warren County is served by the following providers for electric utility service:

MidAmerican Energy

• Serves 713,940 electric utility customers in Iowa, Illinois, and South Dakota with coverage in most of Warren County.
• MidAmerican Energy Company is the largest utility in Iowa and is strategically located in the middle of several major markets in the Midwest.
• Average price per kilowatt hour for industrial service is $0.0406.
• Record summer peak load in MW totals 4,136.
• Generating capacity totals more than 6,000 (MW).

Alliant Energy

• Serves 990,406 electric utility customers in the states of Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois with coverage in Southern Warren County.
• Maximum peak hour demand (MW) totals 5,932 and utility electric sales (thousands of megawatt-hours) total 33,088.
• Thirty-nine percent (39%) of Alliant Energy’s electric utility sales are for industrial use.
• Generation capacity of approximately 5,700 megawatts (MW).

Indianola Municipal Utility

• Currently serves 6,300 electric meters in the City of Indianola.
• Annual sales are 111,280,029 kWhs with an annual peak demand of 31.2MW.
• Standard electric service available for new construction is 120/240, 60 HZ alternating current single phase or 120/208 and 277/480 three phase systems.

Carlisle Municipal Electric Department

• Currently serves approximately 1,400 customers in the City of Carlisle.
• Average monthly peak demand is 3,550 kW with a winter peak demand of 3,224 kW and a summer peak demand of 6,014 kW.

Clarke Electric Cooperative, Inc.

• Covers parts of unincorporated Southern Warren County.
• Not-for profit utility with over 5,000 members.

Natural Gas
Warren County is served by the following providers for natural gas utility service:

MidAmerican Energy

• Serves 694,493 natural gas utility customers in the states of Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, and South Dakota with coverage in most Warren County communities.
• MidAmerican Energy Company is the largest utility in Iowa and is strategically located in the middle of several major markets in the Midwest.
• Average price per MMBtu for industrial use customers is $8.230.
• The record peak day volumes in MMBtu is 1,143,026.

Alliant Energy

• Serves approximately 420,000 natural gas utility customers in the states of Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota with coverage in Southern Warren County.
• Natural gas sold and transported in thousands of dekatherms total 105,515.
• Service territory covers 8,000 miles of natural gas main

Water & Sewer
Municipalities of Warren County provide water and sewer utility service to each of the communities. 

To be connected to each of the Warren County community websites for further utility information, please visit the Cities & Chambers section of the WCEDC web links.

In rural areas of the county, Warren Rural Water (515-962-1200) can provide water service. 

Telecommunications

A number of options are available for telecommunication services including one local telecommunications utility.  Please see below for more information.

Mediacom

• Offers phone, Internet, email, web hosting, cable television, music and fiber optic services.
• For more information about Mediacom’s capabilities call 1-800-379-7412.

Iowa Telecom

• Offers dial-up and DSL high speed Internet, Wi-Fi wireless network, web and email hosting, flex pipe capabilities, and long distance land line phone services.
• For more information about Iowa Telecom’s capabilities call 1-877-901-4692.

Qwest

• Officers high-speed Internet, email, web hosting, global wide area networking, landline and cellular phone services.
• For more information about Qwest’s capabilities call 1-800-777-9594.

McLeod USA

• Offers DSL high speed Internet, branded email, McLeod USA email accounts, long distance land line phone, site-to-site virtual private networking (VPN), remote access VPN, managed firewall service, web conferencing, and web hosting.
• For more information about McLeod USA’s capabilities call 1-800-593-1177.

Prairie INET

• Offers high speed Internet, private networking, web hosting, and identity email.
• For more information about Prairie INET’s capabilities call 1-515-440-0849.

Indianola Municipal Utility

• Provides advanced phone, Internet, and video services to specific areas of Indianola, such as the Hillcrest Industrial Park, to stimulate economic development.
• Contact Todd Kielkopf at 515-961-9410 for more information.