Power for the People: A History of Seattle City Light

Wilma, David W.; Crowley, Walt

ISBN 10: 0295985763 / ISBN 13: 9780295985763

Verlag: Historylink, 2010

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The century-long history of Seattle City Light is among the most remarkable in the United States utility industry. Founded in 1911 under municipal ownership to provide a more stable, reliable, and inexpensive alternative to the small private utilities of the day, City Light promptly embarked on a program of dam building in the challenging gorges of the Skagir River. The dams soon provided an abundant supply of energy that gave Seattle the lowest electric-power rates in the nation and contributed to the city's emergence as a center of manufacturing and technology.

These accomplishments were far from simple to achieve, however. For decades, City Light fought for dominance with private and investor-owned utilities. Later, it struggled for years to align its hiring and promotion policies with contemporary practices. Then the utility was sideswiped by both the nuclear-power debacle of the Washington Public Power Supply System and the power crisis of 2000-2001, which crupted in California and scorched consumers all along the West Coast.

New energy and environmental realities fostered a fundamental change in City Light's strategic approach to providing power. The utility, which had grown and prospered by relentlessly promoting electricity consumption, successfully reversed course and became a champion of energy conservation and the search for new renewable power sources. In 2005, City Light became the first major electric utility to boast net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: David W. Wilma, former deputy director of HistoryLink.org, is an author and freelance writer.
Walt Crowley (1947-2007), Seattle historian, civic activist, and co-founder of HistoryLink.org, was the author of more than a dozen books.History Ink is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation dedicated to pursuing innovative approaches to historical research, education, and publishing. It produces as a public service HistoryLink.org, the free online encyclopedia of Washington state history. HistoryLink was the nation's first community history encyclopedia designed expressly for the Internet. History Ink also has produced more than a dozen books on subjects related to Pacific Northwest history. For more information on Seattle City Light and other stories from Washington's past, visit HistoryLink.org.

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Titel: Power for the People: A History of Seattle ...
Verlag: Historylink
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
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