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Supporting our Seattle City Light customers during these challenging times

As we support our customers negatively impacted by COVID-19, Seattle City Light wants to ensure everyone knows about all available resources. In addition to payment assistance, City Light is: Not shutting off power* for non-payment and working with customers to ensure uninterrupted service. Waiving late fees and making every effort… [ Keep reading ]

Seattle City (Spot)Light: Margaret Owens

Margaret Owens has been performing line work with City Light for 24 years. Currently, she is one of two Transmission Right of Way Crew Chiefs. “My job ranges from vegetation management, lake debris removal, right of way restoration, road building, responding to emergency callouts and providing line worker support” Margaret… [ Keep reading ]

Seattle City (spot)Light: Kelsey Hay

Kelsey Hay celebrated her one-year anniversary with City Light in late June. She works with the Communications and Marketing division as a Communications intern, where she provides support on a number of projects and teams including community outreach (community meetings and related tasks), Skagit Tours, (spot)Lights, and more! Growing up… [ Keep reading ]

City Light to Begin Fiberoptic Cable Installations in Southwest Seattle

Seattle City Light crews plan to install new fiberoptic cables between several utility substations in the southwest Seattle area. This work is needed to provide reliable communications for City Light’s electrical substations and operations network.

Seattle City (spot)Light: Chris Armstrong

Chris Armstrong has been with City Light for a little over six years. After working as the internship coordinator, Chris transitioned to his current role as an outreach and engagement specialist on the Communications team. Before coming to Seattle, Chris lived in Champaign, Illinois for twelve years where he received… [ Keep reading ]

Accelerated Pole Replacement Program: July 2020 Update

Seattle City Light continues to replace aging utility poles throughout the utility’s service area as part of the accelerated pole replacement program, which was created in 2019 to improve safety and reliability. City Light maintains approximately 91,000 wooden poles in its service territory. After an investigation following an April 2019… [ Keep reading ]

Seattle City (spot)Light: Greg St. Peter

Greg St. Peter has been with Seattle City Light for five years. He is a part of the Communications and Marketing team as the graphic designer. “My role as the only in-house graphic designer is to support all aspects of visual information both internal and customer-facing, via print as well… [ Keep reading ]

Seattle City Light Joins West Coast Electric Utilities in Mapping Out Electric Truck Charging Sites Along I-5

West Coast Clean Transit Corridor would create jobs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions from freight transportation, help eliminate health-harming diesel emissions from trucks. Seattle City Light joins electric utilities in three West Coast states to announce the results of a study that could lead to significant reductions of pollution from freight… [ Keep reading ]

Seattle City (spot)Light: Chau Ly

Chau Ly has been a committed City Light employee for thirteen years. As a Senior Customer Service Representative in the Credit and Collection departments, Chau plays a vital role in solving customer inquiries or problems and improving strategies and procedures. Originally from outside of Washington, Chau shares that she was… [ Keep reading ]

Seattle City (spot)Light: Jeff Fisher

Jeff Fisher will celebrate his one-year anniversary working for City Light in July. “My official title is senior aquatic ecologist and strategic advisor,” Jeff explained. “My job is a bit of a meld of straight technical fisheries and water quality work with policy support focused on broader Endangered Species Act… [ Keep reading ]