Seattle City Light

We have Cassie and she is working outside construction in the Puget Sound area.

And then Courtney, she is a lineman for Seattle City Light.

So we have a little mixture of outside and inside utility.

And I know you have your loved ones supporting you out here on the sidelines.

We do.

Uh, i- in fact, I have my head of operations, Michelle Vargo, she came from Seattle City Light-

Mm-hmm

... which is a municipally owned utility.

And we'll start there.

Utilities that get electricity from the Bonneville Power Administration, like Seattle City Light, say a pending rate increase will likely trickle down to customers.

KLCC's Zach Ziegler reports.

The BPA says the hike is due to a court order requiring it to spill more water over the tops of some dams.

Hollingsworth said that not introducing new taxes is important because residents already feel stretched.

We've had how many levies the last couple years? We're increasing Seattle City Light by 9 percent.

SPU rates are going up.

Construction permits are going up.

Thank you, Mark.

Could you give us a concrete example of what these manual process challenges look like in practice? Cause I know you've worked with utilities like Seattle city light and Southern California Edison.

So what are some real world consequences you've seen?

Certainly, you know, it's some of these things, you know, when it comes to calculating expenses, you know, thanks to, uh, they can be very complicated.

You know, that's part of the bargaining agreement.

So you've got to do just extra administrative work to track down those overpayments and get those back and do that full reconciliation.

You know, as I mentioned, you mentioned Seattle City Light.

You know, these are these are crews that they might drive two or three hours to very remote areas in the boundary in the Boundary Waters area.

And I think that is one place where you could see long-term growth for Seattle.

That OED Office of Economic Development report that you talked about really leaned heavy on cleantech and this notion that Seattle has the infrastructure, you know, Seattle City Light, the ability to be kind of a first customer for some of these technologies, that cleantech is really a place where Seattle could invest, whereas I might have a bigger impact on the economy long term.

We actually have some levers to pull when it comes to green technologies.

the San Francisco thing, that is something we've seen, at least anecdotally, is people coming out of the UW in particular from the Allen School and founding a company, getting it started here at least, and then going to the Bay Area in part because of the culture and just the fact that You've really seen, of course, the Silicon Valley and the San Francisco scene.

I would like to stand here and tell you that I know what caused it, but I don't.

We've ruled things out, but we've not ruled anything in, Seattle City Light CEO Debra Smith said.

Seattle City Light says they ruled out lightning and weather's causes, but as of today, this incident also remains a mystery.

Lost Boy Larry On 7 August 1973, New Mexico CB radio operators heard the disturbing pleas and cries for help from a little boy by the name of Larry.

He said he was trapped in a red and white pickup truck with his father who had died, possibly of a heart attack.

It can control the energy.

It has Seattle City Light as a utility.

It has land use and permitting and access to the water and all these things where with AI, certainly it's gonna have a much bigger impact on the region long-term, but it's kind of a crapshoot in terms of what happens in that sector from the city's perspective.

I'm going to echo GeekWire columnist Charles Fitzgerald, who's written about this topic.