Seattle City Light crews are responding to reports of a power outage in the West Seattle area affecting about 4,787 customers. The outage was detected at about 2 a.m. Crews are responding to a pole fire near SW Findlay St.and 30th Ave. SW. The cause of the fire is not… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle City Light’s Powerful Neighborhoods program is earning high marks from the thousands of customers the utility’s Powerful Neighborhoods program has helped to reduce energy consumption and save money.
Seattle City Light can’t make the broccoli you buy any greener, but it is working to help the grocery stores where you buy that broccoli cut their energy consumption and save money so those veggies stay crisp and affordable.
Power was restored to all West Seattle customers at 2:59 p.m. today, Sunday. Crews replaced a pole and restrung wire after an early morning car-pole accident.
Most of the West Seattle homes and businesses affected by an early-morning, car-pole accident have had their power restored. Crews are on-site. A few hundred customers will be without power as an additional outage is taken to replace the pole. The estimated time of restoration is approximately 4-6 hours.
Seattle City Light identified nine streetlights that were giving off voltage in the utility’s latest round of streetlight safety testing. No one was injured by any of the streetlights. In each case, City Light crews immediately cut power and started repairs.
Gusty winds caused scattered outages across Seattle City Light’s service territory Monday night. More than 18,000 homes and businesses were initially affected. By 1 a.m. Tuesday, the number of customers without power had been cut to 9,000.
Seattle City Light repair crews responded to a power outage affecting about 3,700 homes and businesses in West Seattle just before 5 p.m. today.
A garbage truck that hit a tree, knocking the tree into power lines about 2:30 p.m. was responsible for a power outage in the Alki area of West Seattle.
