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Press Release: Iowa's Electric Cooperatives Participate in Careers in Energy Week Oct. 14-20, 2013   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Brian Kading, Executive Vice President - 515-727-8941 bkading@iowarec.org Regi Goodale, Director of Regulatory Affairs - 515-727-8949 rgoodale@iowarec.org Iowa’s Electric Cooperatives Participate in Careers in Energy Week Oct. 14-20,...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Brian Kading, Executive Vice President - 515-727-8941 bkading@iowarec.org Regi Goodale, Director of Regulatory Affairs - 515-727-8949 rgoodale@iowarec.org  

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 CONTACT: TIM COONAN, 515-991-3916 Iowa’s electric cooperatives urge action on disaster aid denial during congressional delegation meeting DES MOINES, IA – Representatives of Iowa’s electric cooperatives travel to Washington, D.C., today to discuss a recent decision by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)...

Jo Ann Emerson, CEO of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, presented Marion Denger with a 2013 Regional Service Award at the regional meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Denger is president of the board of directors for the Iowa Association of Electric Cooperatives and president of Prairie Energy Cooperative. “Marion’s passion...

Our annual meeting was held yesterday at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds in Davenport.  Following the annual meeting yesterday, the Cooperative’s board of directors met during a re-organizational meeting.

Attached for immediate release is information in regard to Consumers Energy’s Annual Meeting and Election of Directors held on September 5, 2013. Please feel free to contact me with questions you might have.

(AMES, IOWA) — More than thirty rural electric cooperatives and municipal utilities are coming to the Iowa State University campus for cyber security training offered by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA). Representatives from Clarke Electric Cooperative, the Iowa Association of Electric Cooperatives, NRECA and other Iowa cooperatives will be available to talk to the media about steps utilities are taking to strengthen cyber security as they modernize the electric power system.

Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, in partnership with Alliant Energy, Black Hills Energy, MidAmerican Energy Company, The Iowa Association of Electric Cooperatives, the Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities, and the Iowa Utility Association, will discuss important information to help customers avoid utility scams.

DES MOINES, Iowa – As the winter heating season approaches, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller and a group of Iowa utilities and utility associations are warning Iowans about the prospect of scammers posing as utilities or government representatives in order to gain access to personal information from utility customers.