EXHIBIT 24.2

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY
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     The  undersigned,  a member  of the  Board of  Managers  or an  officer  of
MIDAMERICAN  FUNDING,  LLC, an Iowa limited  liability  company (the "Company"),
hereby  constitutes  and appoints  Douglas L.  Anderson and Paul J. Leighton and
each of them, as his/her true and lawful  attorney-in-fact  and agent, with full
power of substitution and  resubstitution,  for and in his/her stead, in any and
all capacities,  to sign on his/her behalf the Company's Form 10-K Annual Report
for the fiscal year  ending  December  31,  2003 and to execute  any  amendments
thereto and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all other documents
in  connection  therewith,  with the  Securities  and  Exchange  Commission  and
applicable stock exchanges,  with the full power and authority to do and perform
each and every act and thing  necessary or advisable to all intents and purposes
as he/she might or could do in person,  hereby ratifying and confirming all that
said  attorney-in-fact  and agent,  or his/her  substitute or  substitutes,  may
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Executed as of February 9, 2004.



/s/  David L. Sokol                               /s/  Gregory E. Abel
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DAVID L. SOKOL                                    GREGORY E. ABEL



/s/  Patrick J. Goodman                           /s/  Ronald W. Roskins
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PATRICK J. GOODMAN                                RONALD W. ROSKINS