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English: Seattle City Light employees on coffee break in the old Municipal Building, 1960s. Item 165636 , City Light Photographic Negatives (Record Series 1204-01), Seattle Municipal Archives . Seattle Municipal Archives changed its URL scheme circa 2022; the older URLs beginning with "clerk" are deprecated, and will eventually fail.
Seattle City Light is the public utility providing electricity to Seattle, Washington, in the United States, and parts of its metropolitan area, including all of Shoreline, nearly all of Lake Forest Park, and parts of unincorporated King County, Burien, Normandy Park, SeaTac, Renton, and Tukwila. [1]
The project is owned and operated by Seattle City Light to provide electric power for the City of Seattle and surrounding communities. In 2012, hydro-electric dams provided approximately 89.8 percent of the electricity used in Seattle. [2] The Skagit Hydroelectric Project alone accounts for about 20 percent of Seattle City Light's electricity.
In 1903, Ross was appointed assistant city engineer and chief electrical engineer for Seattle, developing both the Seattle Municipal Light and Power Plant and the Skagit River Hydroelectric Project. [6]: 22–23 The first timber dam on the Cedar River raised the river's level by 18 feet (5.5 m).
The Seattle City Light Department recently announced a plan to increase rates for customers amid a growing energy demand and heightened labor costs.
As compensation for the flooded land, which totals about 500 acres (2.0 km 2), Seattle City Light paid the Province of British Columbia $250,000, as well as an annual payment of $5,000. Two years prior to the reservoir reaching full pool, construction of the Ross Dam power plant began, and two turbines first went on line in 1956, generating 360 ...
The Denny Substation is an electrical substation located in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, and operated by Seattle City Light.The facility takes up a whole city block along Denny Way and features a community center, interpretive exhibits, a dog park, and public art.
English: Item 26928, City Light Photographic Negatives (Record Series 1204-01), Seattle Municipal Archives. English: Woman from the Seattle City Light stenography pool making Diazo prints with on Ozalid printer, January 10, 1954.