Seattle City Light repaired a streetlight today after a customer reported that his dog was shocked when it sniffed a small, metal plate at the base of a concrete streetlight pole on 32nd Avenue S between Atlantic and Massachusetts streets. The dog was not injured.
Seattle City Light will be at Safeco Field on Friday evening to help the Mariners celebrate Earth Day with the team’s third annual carbon neutral game.
Seattle City Light restored service to about 2,400 homes and businesses in the Skyway area at about 10:30 p.m. The outage started about 5:30 p.m. when overhead equipment failed, causing the wires to come down to the ground. City Light crews first made the area safe and then restored power…. [ Keep reading ]
Seattle City Light crews are responding to a power outage affecting the Skyway area of south Seattle. The outage occurred at about 5:37 p.m. today Crews are being dispatched to find the location of the problem. An estimate for restoration was not immediately available. The general boundaries of the outage… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle City Light found no additional incidents of contact voltage among the 60 streetlights that were damaged and repaired after the utility’s comprehensive testing in December.
A metal streetlight pole that was replaced in January of this year was found to have voltage late last week.
Seattle City Light restored service to about 3,600 homes and businesses in Ravenna and Wedgwood in about an hour after a falling tree branch cut power to the area.
Seattle City Light crews responded to reports of a power outage affecting about 3,600 customers in the Ravenna and Wedgwood neighborhoods about 1 p.m.
Seattle City Light is testing a new device built by a local osprey expert to see whether it can protect the growing population of osprey along the Lower Duwamish River by keeping them away from hazardous high voltage power lines.
Seattle City Light Superintendent Jorge Carrasco expressed cautious optimism about power production this year. The utility entered April with near-record amounts of snowpack above its hydroelectric dams on the Pend Oreille and Skagit Rivers, promising a healthy supply of electricity this summer.
