Decorah Alliant Operations Center Celebrates Opening

DECORAH — Alliant Energy has a new Operations Center in Decorah as of Tuesday, October 22. Mayor Lorraine Borowski and more than 30 employees and members of the community joined Alliant Energy at a ribbon-cutting event to celebrate the grand opening of their new operations center on Park Street. The company's new facility allows Alliant Energy crews the opportunity to respond faster and safer to all situations. Those benefits include: Stoplight access to the east of the facility. Crews can now easily turn onto Highway 9. All vehicles and equipment are now inside, reducing the time spent clearing off trucks and equipment or waiting for the hydraulics to warm up on the bucket trucks. Crews can also quickly load what they need, get in their truck and drive out of the building. Larger outside yard, with stockpiles of poles, transformers and other field equipment. The extra space at this facility makes it easier for our crews to see, access and refresh those stockpiles. When extra crews arrive in town to help with storm restoration, they can quickly and easily get what they need. Eighteen total employees, including line workers, substation techs, material coordinators, metering techs and engineers are all in one place. The shared space allows the crew work more closely together to deliver service, May Farlinger, president of Alliant's Iowa energy company, was joined by Omar Chaudhary, Corporate Secretary, Dustin Mohs, Manager of Customer Operations in Iowa, Randy Bauer, Director of Operational Resources, Mike Wagner, Lead Community Development Specialist, and many others to celebrate the fact that the new facility is operational. Before helping cut the ribbon, the Decorah Mayor, Lorraine Borowski, expressed her appreciation for the company's decision to build a new, larger facility to serve the community and respond to outages with more efficiency. Join the community of savvy subscribers (for free)! Get the latest updates, tips, and insider information by subscribing to the free newsletter today.