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Seattle City Light committed to adding fish passage on its three hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River, under terms of a new federal license. The move to add infrastructure to transport salmon ...
RELATED: Seattle’s Skagit River dams hurt salmon ... The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) last licensed City Light’s Skagit dams in 1995. Since then, three salmonid species ...
Seattle City Light announced plans last week to upgrade its hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River with fish passage. The Skagit’s native fish haven’t been able to swim north of a place now ...
From Whatcom County where Seattle City Light's three Skagit River dams are located to Seattle where the public utility is headquartered, lawsuits are stacking up as relicensing of the century-old ...
Seattle City Light operates three dams and powerhouses on the upper Skagit River – Ross, Diablo and Gorge – that are collectively called the Skagit River Hydroelectric Project. Points of ...
CEO and general manager of Seattle City Light. Seattle’s management of its dams is of special concern right now because its license for the Skagit River Project, ultimately issued by the U.S ...
With Seattle City Light (SCL) in the process of relicensing its dams on the Skagit River — hydroelectric projects that supply the City of Seattle with roughly 20% of its electricity — SCL has ...
For more than a century, salmon and the tribes that depend on them have paid dearly for the electricity generated by three dams on the Skagit River. That could change as Seattle City Light looks ...
Seattle City Light has released a new plan for managing three hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River. The dams provide 20% of Seattle’s electric power and have been the subject of a series of ...
The power company is in the process of replacing the transformers that increase the voltage of electricity produced at the dam along the Skagit River, Seattle City Light senior capital projects ...
Gorge, Diablo and Ross dams form the Skagit River Hydroelectric Project and provide 20% of the energy for Seattle City Light, the city’s public utility. Seattle City Light is pushing back on ...
“It’s important to the people who live on the Skagit River, it’s really important to the city ... Gorge Dam and Gorge Powerhouse in what is called a bypass reach, the Seattle Light officials ...