As part of Seattle City Light’s support for the Take Winter By Storm awareness campaign, three lineworkers helped create a video urging residents to prepare for storm season and the power outages that go with it. Watch the video at http://www.seattlechannel.org/videos/video.asp?ID=4420
An estimated 1.2 million pink salmon and 25,000 Chinook are crowding into the upper Skagit River below Seattle City Light’s three hydroelectric dams to spawn. It is the best spawning run on the Skagit in at least 35 years.
Today Seattle City Light is the first utility to announce that it is offering customers the ability to link their electricity consumption data with Microsoft Hohm, an online application that tracks energy use and provides personalized energy conservation recommendations.
Seattle City Light is helping the historic Paramount Theater reduce its energy consumption and save money by replacing incandescent lighting with energy efficient fluorescent and LED fixtures — including a rebuild of the theater’s signature neon sign.
Starting Oct. 7, Seattle City Light will provide 20,000 randomly selected homeowners with bi-monthly home energy reports as part of a pilot program to help them reduce their energy consumption and save money.
Seattle City Light crews have restored power to about 6,700 customers in Queen Anne and Uptown, who lost service about 1 p.m.
Seattle City Light’s vegetation management department has retained Washington Forestry Consultants Inc. of Olympia to conduct an inventory and assessment the trees and vegetation on its electrical transmission system in the state of Washington.
A pilot program by Seattle City Light found encouraging results on the effectiveness of in-home energy monitoring displays for helping people conserve energy.
This morning, Seattle City Light restored service to the remaining 200 customers (from the original 7,100) affected by a power outage caused by a downed power line yesterday afternoon.
A Seattle City Light repair crew is working to restore power to six customers in Renton. The outage started when an elbow connector in an underground vault failed early this morning. The estimate for restoration of service is 6 p.m.
