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At CIPCO, we have a responsibility to provide competitively priced electricity to our member owners. We believe energy policy must be based on a balanced, common-sense approach that ensures consistent, maintained, 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.

As a state-of-the-art energy provider, we are meeting our members’ needs with a diverse fuel mix of coal, nuclear, hydro, wind, natural gas, and oil energy resources. We continue to invest in new technology and renewable energy production. By purchasing renewable energy, CIPCO enables its member systems to offer green energy options. Through these types of programs, CIPCO supports Iowa's development of renewable energy resources. More than 95 percent of the power CIPCO provides to its members is generated in Iowa, and nearly 40 percent of our electricity is generated from carbon-free resources minimizing the impact to our environment.

CIPCO’s wholly-owned generating facilities include Fair Station, a coal-based plant at Montpelier, Iowa, and Summit Lake Generating Plant at Creston, Iowa. Additional generation includes a percentage of ownership in the NextEra Energy Duane Arnold, LLC at Palo, Iowa, a nuclear-fueled facility and two coal-based plants located in Council Bluffs and Muscatine, Iowa. Most recently, CIPCO partnered with NextEra Energy Resources (formerly FPL Energy) in purchasing 42 megawatts of wind energy from the Story County Wind Energy Center, located near Colo, Iowa. Additional wind resources have been purchased since 2004 from the Hancock County Wind Energy Center, Garner, Iowa. CIPCO also purchases small amounts from hydroelectric systems and capacity and interchange energy from other utilities.

Tools such as the Power Requirements Study, utilized by CIPCO and the member cooperative systems, annually forecasts the future electric demand and energy needs based on the individual requirement of each member. CIPCO staff offer technical and quality assistance to continually enhance the distribution systems which deliver energy solutions to the end user.

CIPCO delivers power through the utilization of approximately 265 member substation operating the following CIPCO facilities as well as facilities under contract from others: 31 Transmission Substations 
782 Miles of 34 kV Transmission Line
834.43 Miles of 69 kV Transmission Line
63.42 Miles of 115 kV Transmission Line
213.09 Miles of 161 kV Transmission Line