Streetlight Safety
Seattle City Light completed its annual testing of metal streetlights and related structures in October 2012. The full report can be found here.

Seattle City Light's First New Substation Investment in Nearly 30 years
Seattle City Light is designing its first new substation in 30 years. The Denny Substation will serve businesses and residents in the commercial areas and residential neighborhoods throughout our service territory, as well as alleviate the distribution congestion in the areas of South Lake Union, Cascade, Denny Triangle, Uptown, Belltown and First Hill. It will provide the higher level of reliability and electrical load density needed by our major medical centers, bio-tech research facilities, and high tech industries, and by current and future manufacturing and innovative entrepreneurial industries. For more information please visit the project website.

Update Your Account Information
It's part of our ongoing efforts to improve customer service. Seattle City Light is enhancing communications for reporting outages and to receive information about outages. We need YOUR help! Many customers have had a City Light account for years and it's likely that your account information hasn't been updated for some time. Also, many of our customers now use a cellular telephone as their only phone service and we might not have that number in our system. Some of you have told us you'd like to get an e-mail when there's an outage because you can receive them on your cell phone. Please help us stay in touch by updating your contact information.

Seattle City Light Strategic Plan 5/12/2011
City Light is developing a strategic plan for the next 6 years. We need help from our customer/owners to help with decisions. This video explains how Seattle City Light has operated in the past and asks questions about the future.

Solar Carousel 5/5/11
Seattle Channel's City Stream show takes a look at the solar energy panels City Light helped install on Woodland Park Zoo's historic carousel.

Nissan Leaf Uses Clean Electricity 1/4/2011
City Light is happy to welcome the first mass produced electric car, using 100 % carbon neutral clean electricity. These cars are now available, and are the first of many electric vehicles that will soon be on the city streets.

Seattle City Light: Boundary Hydroelectric Project 9/21/2010
Seattle City Light`s Boundary Hydroelectric Project in NE Washington recently conducted an historic reduction in its reservoir which revealed the famed Metaline Falls for the first time in 27 years. This video shows how and why.

City Light Hosts Goats 8/31/2010
Seattle City Light`s north substation is hosting a herd of 270 goats to clear a slope of blackberries. This is the third time in 4 years the goats have helped clear the persistent weeds.

Take Winter by Storm 2010 10/21/2010
Winter storm preparations are being made by local utilities. It`s also time for individual families to prepare. Here are things you should do and some dangers to avoid.

Customer Video 6/18/2010
This short overview of Seattle City Light shows the history and legacy of the publically owned utility.

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MacPherson Leather Company Case Study Program Benefits Program Eligibility How to Participate Case Studies Index New Light on Leather MacPherson Leather Company on Beacon Hill supplies leather parts to wholesalers, designers and shoe repair businesses. On 3 floors covering about 16,000 square feet, they stock thousands of leather pieces ranging in size from tiny leather button holes to bolts of material big enough to recover a couch. So what does all this have to do with lighting? "Sending out the correct order is critical to our business", says Greg MacPherson, owner. "Colors and sizes must be exact. And if you can’t find what you’re looking for among 10,000 stock numbers because of poor lighting, you’re in trouble." Greg knew the lighting in the old warehouse building was at least 40 years old. He’d already changed out thousands of ballasts, but was still stuck with the same green-hued fluorescent lamps. What looked red in the basement was orange on the first floor and pink in the office on the 3rd floor. So when Ruben Ostrea of Ostrea Energy Controls, Inc. approached Greg with a lighting proposal that promised increased light levels and high quality color rendering at reduced energy costs, Greg was hopeful. "What really sold us," Greg said, "was the rebate Seattle City Light offered through its Small Commercial Rebate [now $mart Business] Program. Finally a lighting program for small businesses that was simple and easy to apply for."  After Ruben changed out the existing 198 T12 magnetically ballasted lamps to energy efficient electronically ballasted T8’s, the transformation was dramatic. Employees now have enough light to read stock numbers anywhere in the warehouse where they are stored as well as match colors, rather than taking stock to a better lit area. "Until I saw the improvement, I had no idea our existing lighting was that bad", Greg said after the upgrade. "The only advantage to waiting so long was getting the rebate from Seattle City Light's Small Commercial Rebate [now $mart Business] Program," he added. "We now have uniform light throughout the warehouse, better color rendering and much higher light levels; and all at lower energy costs! Plus we got a rebate. This is a program where everyone wins," said the satisfied owner of MacPherson Leather Company. MacPherson Leather Company Case Study Project Information Owner: Greg MacPherson Location: 519 12th Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98144 Description: High efficiency lamp and ballast replacement Cost: $13,736.81 Seattle City Light Incentive Rebate Amount: $10,410.00 Annual Projected Energy Savings: 29,386 kWh Seattle City Light Trade Ally: Ostrea Energy Controls, Inc. For complete $mart Business Program information, please e-mail or call: Marilou Trias at marilou.trias@seattle.gov, 206.684.4293 or Charles Valentin at charles.valentin@seattle.gov, 206.684.4215. Program incentives may change based on funding availability.

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