Starting in mid-September, Seattle City Light will begin a new civil construction project in the University District area. Crews will excavate and install underground electrical conduit along NE Pacific Street (between Montlake Boulevard NE and 15th Avenue NE). The work will increase electrical reliability for the area and support Sound Transit’s Link Light Rail expansion project.
Seattle City Light crews restored power this evening to University District customers after an electrical fire in an underground vault.
Power is out to approximately 1,500 customers in the University District. There is an early report of smoke and an explosion at a vault near 15th Avenue NE and NE Pacific Street.
Seattle City Light crews restored power by about 5 p.m. to all 13,400 homes and businesses affected by a power outage in the U-District, Eastlake, Fremont, Wallingford, Ravenna and GreenLake.
A power outage that began at 3:06 pm has affected more than 13,000 City Light customers.
Seattle City Light repair crews restored power Wednesday morning to the final 245 customers affected by the failure of splices on two underground, main stem power lines near University Bridge.
City Light crews are investigating an outage affecting 2,035 customers in the Ravenna/University District/Laurelhurst area. The cause of the outage is not known at this time. The outage was detected at 5:30 a.m. on Jan. 31. For outage boundaries, visit our map at http://www.seattle.gov/light/sysstat/ . Seattle City Light is the… [ Keep reading ]
A failed switch was the cause of a power outage that affected about 3,600 customers in the Ravenna, Wedgwood, View Ridge and University District neighborhoods, including the University of Washington.
About 3,600 customers in Ravenna, Wedgwood, View Ridge and the University District, including part of the University of Washington campus, lost power about 8:15 p.m. today. Crews isolated the outage to about 200 customers within 30 minutes. Full restoration is estimated for midnight.
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 ]
