After 5:30 p.m. this evening, a breaker failure in the North Substation caused a power outage to more than 43,000 customers in North Seattle. The cause of the breaker failure is still being investigated.
As of 8:30 p.m., customers in the area have been fully restored by crews.
The boundaries of the power outage included:
- To the North – NE 123rd St.
- To the East – Lake Washington
- To the South – NE 35th St.
- To the West – Aurora Avenue
Customers can get updated outage information online at www.seattle.gov/light/sysstat.
Seattle City Light is the 10th largest public electric utility in the United States. It has some of the lowest cost customer rates of any urban utility, providing reliable, renewable and environmentally responsible power to nearly 1 million Seattle area residents. City Light has been greenhouse gas neutral since 2005, the first electric utility in the nation to achieve that distinction.