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Power Outage Affecting 2,400 Customers In Skyway

Seattle City Light crews are responding to a power outage affecting the Skyway area of south Seattle. The outage occurred at about 5:37 p.m. today Crews are being dispatched to find the location of the problem. An estimate for restoration was not immediately available. The general boundaries of the outage… [ Keep reading ]

City Light Finds No Additional Problems Among Recently Replaced Streetlights

Seattle City Light found no additional incidents of contact voltage among the 60 streetlights that were damaged and repaired after the utility’s comprehensive testing in December.

Metal Streetlight Pole Found to Have Voltage

A metal streetlight pole that was replaced in January of this year was found to have voltage late last week.

Power Restored in Ravenna, Wedgwood

Seattle City Light restored service to about 3,600 homes and businesses in Ravenna and Wedgwood in about an hour after a falling tree branch cut power to the area.

Power Outage Affects 3,600 Customers in Ravenna, Wedgwood

Seattle City Light crews responded to reports of a power outage affecting about 3,600 customers in the Ravenna and Wedgwood neighborhoods about 1 p.m.

Seattle City Light Testing Osprey Protection Device

Seattle City Light is testing a new device built by a local osprey expert to see whether it can protect the growing population of osprey along the Lower Duwamish River by keeping them away from hazardous high voltage power lines.

Abundant Snowpack Assures Healthy Electricity Supplies

Seattle City Light Superintendent Jorge Carrasco expressed cautious optimism about power production this year. The utility entered April with near-record amounts of snowpack above its hydroelectric dams on the Pend Oreille and Skagit Rivers, promising a healthy supply of electricity this summer.

City Light Acquires Wind Farm’s Renewable Energy Credits

Seattle City Light has reached an agreement with Idaho Winds to purchase all the renewable energy credits from the company’s 22 megawatt Sawtooth Wind Project from 2015 to 2029 for approximately $1 million per year.

Bill Collection Scammers Back in Action

Seattle City Light reminds all its customers to guard against telephone con artists posing as utility bill collectors.

Powerful Neighborhoods Expands to Central District

Seattle City Light’s Powerful Neighborhoods program to install free compact fluorescent light bulbs is moving to the Central District, starting April 4.