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Seattle Already Saving Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars with LED Streetlights

New LED streetlights are already saving Seattle $300,000 a year as Seattle City Light works to install tens of thousands more, City Councilmember Bruce Harrell and City Light Superintendent Jorge Carrasco announced today.

Washington Street Vault Work Extended

Seattle City Light’s work on a new underground utility vault on South Washington Street between Third Avenue and Second Avenue Extension has been extended.

Powerful Neighborhoods Expands to Shoreline

Seattle City Light’s Powerful Neighborhoods program to install free compact fluorescent light bulbs is moving to the City of Shoreline, starting June 20.

Join Us in Northgate to Chart Your City Light’s Future

Please join Seattle City Light at a strategic planning forum tonight to help chart the utility’s future over the next six years. All participants will receive a free compact fluorescent light bulb.

Osprey Like New Tukwila Nesting Platform

A new nesting platform Seattle City Light installed in Tukwila to encourage osprey to avoid high-voltage power lines won approval from the most important critics, the birds.

Public Asked to Help Chart City Light’s Future

City Councilmember Bruce Harrell, the Seattle City Light Review Panel and Superintendent Jorge Carrasco are inviting the community to help chart City Light’s future by participating in the public utility’s strategic planning.

Area Utilities Recycle 40,000th Fridge

Seattle City Light and other local utilities hit a milestone this week, by collectively recycling their 40,000th inefficient refrigerator.

Seattle City Light Installs Osprey Platform in Tukwila

Seattle City Light installed a nesting platform for osprey in Tukwila this week to encourage a pair of the birds to avoid nesting on nearby power lines.

Kilowatt Crackdown Winners Announced

A dozen Puget Sound-area office buildings won awards today in the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of Seattle King County’s 2011 Kilowatt Crackdown competition, which was sponsored by Seattle City Light, Puget Sound Energy, Tacoma Power, Snohomish PUD and the BetterBricks program of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance.

Gates Excited by Potential for Low-Cost Energy, No Carbon

Microsoft founder Bill Gates affirmed his support for innovations in energy that lower costs and reduce carbon emissions at the third annual Climate Solutions breakfast, which Seattle City Light helped to sponsor.