Power restored to Waukee Electric customers

Power restored to Waukee Electric customers

Updated: December 2, 2024, 7:26 p.m. CST

Update 7:25 p.m.: Less than two hours after the outage was reported, nearly all customers were restored, according to MidAmerican’s outage map. A MidAmerican spokesman said only about 1,500 customers were affected by the outage because the card sometimes counts twice. The outage was caused by an equipment failure.Previous coverage:More than 3,000 MidAmerican Energy Co. customers are without power Monday evening after two outages were reported in the Waukee area.According to the MidAmerican Outage Watch website, two power outages occurred close to each other The outage on Ashworth Road west of Ute Avenue was reported around 5:30 p.m. One outage affects 1,567 customers and the recovery time is estimated at 6:55 p.m. The second outage affects 1,568 customers and teams are working with an estimated recovery time of 8:00 p.m. KCCI has reached out to MidAmerican to determine the cause of the outages.