Power Out in West Seattle
Power is out to 3,100 customers in West Seattle.
Power was quickly restored quickly to 3,600 customers in the Eastlake neighborhood along the I-5 corridor after a momentary fault cuased a circuit breaker to trip.
Early work in support of moving Seattle City Light transmission lines as part of the eventual replacement of the Alaskan Way Viaduct will continue over the next several weekends.

Seattle City Light and the Seattle Department of Transportation worked together to plant 415 trees in parking strip right of ways in the Greenlake area.

Seattle City Light Information Technology Director Dirk Mahling was interviewed by CIO Talk Radio regarding the future of energy services as utilities try to incorporate more sources of renewable energy into the existing distribution grid and how technology can help.
As of this week, 100 Northwest Seattle residents have contracted to install residential solar systems through the Solarize Seattle: Northwest program spearheaded by Northwest SEED and Seattle City Light.
Making sure the 84,000 streetlights in Seattle City Light’s service territory stay on and operate safely is the job of about 200 men and women on Seattle City Light’s electrical and distribution crews.

A second hydroelectric turbine runner is on its way to Seattle City Light’s Boundary Dam in Pend Oreille County as part of a generator overhaul project that will increase Boundary’s generating capacity by 30 megawatts and reduce the dam’s impact on fish in the Pend Oreille River.
High School students will compete with their ideas for supporting the transition to alternative energy sources May 17-19 during Imagine Tomorrow at Washington State University.
Seattle City Light customers can save $50 on tickets for the Electric League of the Pacific Northwest’s 2013 Powerful Business Energy Conference to be held May 23 at the MeydenbauerCenter in Bellevue.