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Video: Watch City Light Crew Inspect Streetlights

We’ve posted video on our Facebook page showing some of our lineworkers performing inspections on streetlights. Watch it at http://www.facebook.com/video/editvideo.php?v=111475002257629

Streetlight Safety Inspections

Seattle City Light now is up-dating on our metal streetlight pole inspections, including information about any poles found to be energized. Our Power Lines blog will be up-dated whenever there is additional information to add.

City Light Finds Three Additional Streetlight Locations With Voltage

Seattle City Light’s inspections of metal streetlight poles have found three more instances of contact voltage.

City Light Wins National Award for Energy Efficiency

Seattle City Light won a special 30th Anniversary Award from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) for outstanding contributions to the field of energy efficiency.

Crews making good progress in restoring power

Seattle City Light crews have been able to restore power to about 7,400 customers but about 2,000 are still without power.

Power restoration making headway

Seattle City Light crews have been able to restore power to about 6,000 customers but 1,500 are still without power.

Power being restored but 5,500 still out

Seattle City Light crews have been able to restore power to about 3,000 customers, but 5,500 still without power.

Power out in several neighborhood

An estimated 8,500 customers have lost power in a series of scattered outages.

City Light Update on Streetlight Response Plan

Superintendent Jorge Carrasco briefed the media on the plans City Light has to inspect and to make repairs, if necessary, to any of the 20,000 metal streetlight poles and 10,000 metal “hand holes” (small streetlight vault covers) in the utility’s service territory.

Power Restored to Most City Light Customers

Seattle City Light repair crews have restored power to most customers as of about 12:30 p.m. today. About 18 customers near Tukwila in unincorporated King County are still without power. A landslide in the area affected power service there. The outage began about 9:15 a.m. this morning, and the estimated… [ Keep reading ]