Hospers, Iowa — A power outage affected the entire town of Hospers on Wednesday evening, January 28th.
MidAmerican Energy confirms that the outage affected 835 customers in the Hospers area.
It started about 5:03 PM, and power was restored by 6:46 PM, according to MidAmerican Vice President for Corporate Communications, Dave Caris.
He reports that equipment failure at a substation in that area caused the outage.
Power was off for a total of an hour and 43 minutes.