News

After years of legal challenges and a petition calling for dam removal from local tribes, Seattle City Light announced plans last week to upgrade its hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River with ...
Seattle City Light has committed to adding fish passage on its three hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River, under terms of a new federal license. To stream KING 5 on your phone, you need the KING ...
Seattle City Light agrees to study fish passage over dams on Skagit River After a KING 5 investigation, the public utility agreed to demands to look into helping fish get past their hydropower dams.
Seattle City Light now says fish passage is "likely" at its Skagit River dams as it seeks a new federal license to operate for another 30-50 years.
With Seattle City Light in the process of relicensing its Skagit River dams, it has been slapped with lawsuits which contend their concrete barriers have stopped salmon migration.
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 ...
DIABLO LAKE — Seattle City Light is for the second consecutive year working on an upgrade at the Ross Dam Powerhouse. The power company is in the process of replacing the transformers that ...
A new KING 5 investigation "Skagit, River of Light and Loss" reveals cost-effective electricity generated for the city of Seattle comes at a price.
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.
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 ...
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 has a new plan to include fish passage on the Upper Skagit dams. The plan is required as part of the process of getting the dams relicensed by the federal government.