Seattle City Light

Seattle City Light maintains a small Hydroelectric power plant on the Tolt River in Eastern King County. As dams and hydroelectric plants can alter natural processes on rivers, City Light is looking for ways to help compensate and create habitat for spawning salmon and steelhead species.

This summer, Seattle City Light is offering free tours of the historic town of Newhalem. After the video visit, www.SkagitTours.com for additional information.

Seattle City Light partners with youth group Urban Artworks to create and install a mural on a fence that masks the future construction site for the new Denny substation.

King TV NW Backroads recently visited Pend Oreille County and included a segment about Seattle City Light’s Boundary Hydroelectric Project.

We Are All Connected promotes Public Power Week.

City Light employees join together to help others in the community by volunteering. So far this year employees have packed emergency kits for kids, rehabilitated a hillside along the Duwamish, collected school supplies for needy kids and cleaned up over 500 pounds of refuge along the Skagit River. And there are more opportunities to come.

This video takes a look at past City Light workers and construction and the shows them in the present. Many good historical scenes from archive film.

City Light Employees, family and friends take a Saturday to go clean up garbage from the banks of the Skagit River in north Washington state.

Green Up, Seattle City Light`s voluntary program to build renewable energy projects in Seattle, has a new demonstration project that kids are finding quite fun. Beacon Hill overlook uses solar panels as a roof to power some Jefferson Park amenities.

Seattle City Light offers several public tours of the Skagit Hydroelectric Project and the surrounding National Park. This video describes two special tours offered each summer.

It`s estimated City Light loses $3 million a year from stolen power. That is cost that must be picked up from other rate payers. Seattle Fire Department has fought fires due to power theft, and there have been deaths in other cities because of meter tampering. Power theft is a crime and is being prosecuted by the King County Prosecutors Office. City Light is also levying penalty fees of up to $500 against those found to be stealing power, in addition to fees for damaged equipment and the costs of repairing altered wiring service.

Seattle City Light has improved its 80 year tradition of offering the public a tour of the Skagit Hydroelectric Project. Located on Diablo Lake on state highway 20, the new tour will include the traditional boat ride and meal but with a richer educational experience. www.SkagitTours.com for additional information.

Thriftway in West Seattle upgraded their lighting and freezers with help of a grant from City Light, paying for about half the costs. The anticipated savings to Thriftway is estimated to be over $22 thousand a year on the electric bill.

Councilmember Mike O`Brien, in partnership with Great City, the Seattle City Light Review Panel members and Seattle City Light officials talks about how to shape the future for the utility.

City Councilmember Mike O`Brien and dozens of customers celebrate completion of Seattle City Light`s Community Solar Project in Jefferson Park.

City Council Member Mike O`Brien and the City Light Review Panel reach out to North Seattle residents for input to help set the course for the future of Seattle City Light.

City Council Member Mike O`Brien and the City Light Review Panel reach out to South Seattle residents for input to help set the course for the future of Seattle City Light.

Seattle City Light is trying to get public comment about what the future expenses and improvements should be.

Seattle City Light meter readers need some cooperation from customers to get their job done accurately.

Ever wonder what all those people are up to when they tear up a street and begin working below the surface?Downtown construction takes a number of different specialists to keep work progressing and create the least amount of disruption for traffic and pedestrians

As part of the city`s Race and Social Justice Initiative, City Light employees are encouraging students from Martin Luther King, JR elementary school to consider environmental science as something to study and perhaps seek as a career.

Seattle uses the South Fork Tolt River in eastern King County to generate electricity and as a drinking water supply. Seattle recognizes its operations share natural resources that are vital to fish. As a result, City Light scientists study these fish to determine how its operations on the river can contribute to healthy fish stocks.

Take Winter by Storm is a coordinated effort to prepare the public for winter emergencies. Cities of Seattle, Tacoma; and King, Snohomish, Pierce and Kitsap Counties as well as Puget Sound Energy have combined resources to get the word out that winter emergencies are on the way.

The Historic night lighting of Ladder Creek Falls at the Skagit Hydroelectric Project have been refurbished and rededicated for public viewing. Ladder Creek Falls is a part of the Newhalem Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.