Today the City Council unanimously passed a resolution allowing Seattle City Light to extend residential rate assistance to low-income customers residing in the Seattle Housing Authority and King County Housing Authority if they are not receiving other assistance with their electric utility bills.
More than 50,000 Seattle City Light customers are saving themselves money and reducing their use of paper by receiving and paying their utility bills electronically.
Seattle City Light repair crews restored service about 4:30 p.m. for the last customers affected by an earlier outage in the Mount Baker, Beacon Hill, Leschi, Industrial and Atlantic neighborhoods.
Your Seattle City Light’s 2010 Annual Report is now available online.
A pad mount switch that failed about 9:15 a.m. caused a power outage for about 3,300 homes and businesses in the Mount Baker, Beacon Hill, Leschi, Industrial and Atlantic neighborhoods.
Seattle City Light has completed a software upgrade on its popular streetlight tracker and customers can once again report streetlight outages and track the progress of repairs online.
A failed switch was the cause of a power outage that affected about 3,600 customers in the Ravenna, Wedgwood, View Ridge and University District neighborhoods, including the University of Washington.
About 3,600 customers in Ravenna, Wedgwood, View Ridge and the University District, including part of the University of Washington campus, lost power about 8:15 p.m. today. Crews isolated the outage to about 200 customers within 30 minutes. Full restoration is estimated for midnight.
Mayor Mike McGinn announced this morning that the City of Seattle is buying 35 all-electric Nissan LEAFs for the city fleet. Seattle City Light will get eight of those vehicles.
“The People Now,” a local band that includes Seattle City Light temporary Engineer Arman Birang, raised a total of $1,500 at May fundraising event for the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
