It helps economic development . . .

   Self-sufficiency keeps our lights on!

Location, location, yes, a great central location!

Combine progressive city-owned utilities and a home-grown business community that is anxious to serve and you have Montezuma, a community in east central Iowa that is poised to grow into the 21^st century.

Learn more about our town, Montezuma, Iowa, at www.montezuma.org.

Municipal Light & Power

Montezuma has long maintained its independence.

The city purchases power from MidAmerican Energy, but has kept its own turbines in perfect working order. That has proven helpful during times of peak usage, and invaluable during two major ice storms that struck east central Iowa during 2007.

During both storms, power stayed on in Montezuma, although it was out in adjacent areas. It’s particularly important that the city’s emergency services and high-end corporate users won’t have to experience down time because of an outage.

The city keeps enough fuel on hand to run the local generators for up to one month.

Other utilities are city-owned, too

Montezuma also has municipally-owned natural gas, water and sewage systems.

The gas system, installed in 1967, is designed to handle continued growth.

The water plant treats a virtually unlimited supply of water from nearby Diamond Lake, a city-built project that was designed to handle expanding water needs.