Seattle City Light repair crews responded to reports of two power outages in Shoreline and North Seattle just after midnight Monday morning. About 5,700 homes and businesses were affected.
Seattle City Light is one of 12 utilities working with the Bonneville Power Administration to give consumers a chance to compare light-emitting diode (LED) technology to traditional lighting in real-life settings, such as a coffee shop, a retail store and even a popular whale museum.
Seattle city Light Crews restored service to most of the 18,000 customers affected by Monday’s windstorm by 9 a.m. today.
Gusty winds caused scattered outages across Seattle City Light’s service territory Monday night. More than 18,000 homes and businesses were initially affected. By 1 a.m. Tuesday, the number of customers without power had been cut to 9,000.
Windy wet weather is expected over the next several days. Seattle City Light is ready. You need to be prepared too.
Seattle City Light’s work to rebuild the electrical system at Seattle Center requires a six-hour-long planned outage from 12:01 a.m. to 6 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 16.
Over the past two years, Seattle City Light has cut the number of streetlights needing major repairs from a high of 1,800 to only 33 today.
Seattle City Light is better prepared to respond to winter storms this year thanks to a new outage management system that enhances coordination of service restoration efforts and the utility’s ability to share information about that work with customers.
Power in the International District was fully restored at 6 a.m.
A poweroutage that affected 2,470 customers in the International District has been 80 percent restored.