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.
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 ]
