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.
Seattle City Light has reached an agreement with Idaho Winds to purchase all the renewable energy credits from the company’s 22 megawatt Sawtooth Wind Project from 2015 to 2029 for approximately $1 million per year.
Seattle City Light reminds all its customers to guard against telephone con artists posing as utility bill collectors.
Seattle City Light’s Powerful Neighborhoods program to install free compact fluorescent light bulbs is moving to the Central District, starting April 4.
City Light crews have restored power to all customers affected by an earlier outage in the Cascade neighborhood. The outage began at about 8 p.m. and affected more than 2,000 customers. The cause was a failed cable. Seattle City Light is the 10th largest public electric utility in the United… [ Keep reading ]
City Light crews are responding to an outage that left 2,016 customers without power in the Cascade neighborhood. The outage began at about 8 p.m. The cause has not been determined yet. The rough boundaries of the outage are: North: Republican Street South: Denny Way West: Aurora Avenue North East:… [ Keep reading ]
City Light crews have restored power to all customers in the University District area after an outage that originally affected more than 2,000 customers. The outage began at about 6 p.m. and was caused by a downed wire. Seattle City Light is the 10th largest public electric utility in the… [ Keep reading ]
City Light crews have restored power to all but 837 customers in the University District area, in an outage that originally affected more than 2,000 customers. The outage began at about 6 p.m., and was caused by a downed wire. The remaining outage affects the area just north of the… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle City Light put its new push tug boat into service today at the Skagit Hydroelectric Project in the North Cascades.
Anyone interested in renewable energy is invited to check out the new map of our renewable energy demonstration projects, which we’ve added to our website.
