CIPCO has a responsibility to provide competitively priced electricity to its member systems. This requires that CIPCO consistently maintain adequate levels of electric power supply and a reliable transmission system to move the power to the members' distribution points. In this pursuit, CIPCO maintains a portfolio of generation resources which emphasize ownership of production assets supplemented by market purchases. More than 89 percent of the power that CIPCO provides to its members is generated in Iowa. Our power supply portfolio is diversified among coal, oil, gas, nuclear, hydro and renewable energy sources.

CIPCO has a percentage of ownership in the Duane Arnold Energy Center at Palo, Iowa, a nuclear-fueled facility and two coal-based plants located in Council Bluffs and Muscatine, Iowa. Wholly-owned generating facilities include Fair Station, a coal-based plant at Montpelier, Iowa, and Summit Lake Generating Plant at Creston, Iowa. CIPCO also purchases small amounts from hydroelectric systems and capacity and interchange energy from other utilities.

CIPCO delivers power to the approximately 265 member substation delivery points utilizing the following CIPCO facilities as well as facilities under contract from others:

32 Transmission Substations
880 Miles of 34 kV Transmission Line
808 Miles of 69 kV Transmission Line
63 Miles of 115 kV Transmission Line
213 Miles of 161 kV Transmission Line