Iowa Coops Protest Denial of Aid for Storm Damage
Posted on Sep 19, 2013 in Grid & Infrastructure, Regulation & Policy, Reliability | Comments Off on Iowa Coops Protest Denial of Aid for Storm Damage
Representatives of several Iowa power providers traveled to Washington, D.C., after they learned the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) denied disaster aid for coops in Dickinson, Osceola, Lyon, Sioux and O’Brien counties. Three Iowa electric cooperatives and two municipal utilities reported damage to infrastructure after a severe ice storm passed through the Iowa Great Lakes on April 10-11. The area was designated a major disaster area by federal officials following the mid-April storms. However, FEMA later told area electric coop administrators that disaster aid could not be issued because the coops did not conduct laboratory testing on every mile of wire on an annual basis. Click here to read more.
