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Windstorm causing widespread outages

The wind made it to the Puget Sound region, causing widespread outages across City Light’s service  area. The utility has extra crews on duty to deal with multiple outages. As of this post, around 17,000 customers have lost power. Crews are working hard but estimates for power coming back on… [ Keep reading ]

Seattle City Light’s Self-Healing Power Lines Online in Shoreline, Lake Forest Park

Seattle City Light has completed installation in Shoreline and Lake Forest Park of automated switching technology that is designed to speed the restoration of service when a power line is damaged.

City Light Testing Distribution System in Shoreline & Lake Forest Park

Seattle City Light will continue testing automated switching technology in Shoreline and Lake Forest Park that is designed to speed the restoration of service when a power line is damaged.

Seattle City Light Testing Self-Healing Power Lines

Seattle City Light will test automated switching technology in Shoreline and Lake Forest Park that is designed to speed the restoration of service when a power line is damaged.

Crews Working to Restore Remaining 2,000

City Light crews continue to restore power to the remaining 2,000 customers affected by over 50 separate outages.

Crews Responding to Outages Affecting About 11,000 Customers

Crews are responding to scattered outages in Seattle City Light’s service territory. Winds are expected cause.

Seattle City Light Crews Making Progress With Power Restoration

Seattle City Light crews worked through the night to restore power to thousands following high winds Thursday night.

Crews Responding to Scattered Outages Affecting More Than 15,000 Customers

Crews are responding to scattered outages throughout Seattle City Light’s service territory

Power restored in parts of southwest and south service area

Power has been restored to most of Burien, Normandy Park and SeaTac. Crews are still working to restore an outage in Tukwila that was caused by a construction crew cutting an underground cable.

Burien back, outage down to 200-plus

Power outage that began this morning at 10 has been resolved for most customers in Burien, South Park and areas of south Seattle. A small area of Rainier Valley and New Holly remains out, affecting around 240 customers. Could be 5-6 hours to restore as crews have to bring in… [ Keep reading ]