About 3,600 customers in Ravenna, Wedgwood, View Ridge and the University District, including part of the University of Washington campus, lost power about 8:15 p.m. today. Crews isolated the outage to about 200 customers within 30 minutes. Full restoration is estimated for midnight.
Mayor Mike McGinn announced this morning that the City of Seattle is buying 35 all-electric Nissan LEAFs for the city fleet. Seattle City Light will get eight of those vehicles.
“The People Now,” a local band that includes Seattle City Light temporary Engineer Arman Birang, raised a total of $1,500 at May fundraising event for the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
Seattle City Light construction crews had to close a block of Washington Street between 3rd Avenue and 2nd Avenue Extension in the Pioneer Square neighborhood today when part of a trech for a new duct bank collapsed.
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.
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.
A traffic detour is planned this Saturday, July 9, as City Light crews install a new vault in South Washington Street in the block between Third Avenue and 2nd Avenue South Extension in downtown Seattle.
Seattle City Light is supportive of the NW Energy Coalition’s efforts to keep Congress from repealing light bulb efficiency standards.
A power outage in Shoreline that caused 2,500 customers to lose electricty about 5:30 a.m. has been fully restored as of 7:25 a.m.
SEATTLE — Seattle City Light crews are responding to an outage in Shoreline affecting 2,478 customers. The cause is not known at this time. The rough boundaries for the outage are: North: NE Perkins Way South: NE 125th Street West: Meridian Avenue South East: 35th Avenue NE Seattle City Light… [ Keep reading ]
