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Since before Seattle voters decided in 1902 to build their own lighting plant, City Light has been a source of fierce civic pride for its independence from "foreign" corporations, its impressive public works projects, and its consistently low electricity rates. It has also been a headache for competitors, managers, and politicians. In the first years of the electric age, when Seattle was still a hard-scrable frontier town, power was supplied by a revolving cast of small private utilities remembered mostly for frequent mergers with rivals and mediocre service at high cost. The failure of the privately owned water company to deliver enough of its product to quell Seattle's Great Fire of 18889 got city officials and residents thinking about an alternative utility model--municipal ownership. Voters quickly approved a municipal wter system, and within a decade had laid the groundwork for an electric utility. City Light quickly began a campaign of dam construction that for most of the twentieth century provided Seattle with the cheapest electricity of any major city in the country.
This brisk history traces the utility's origins to 1889 and follows its story through the national energy crisis of 2000-2001 up to the present. It is a quintissentially Northwest story.
This brisk history traces the utility's origins to 1889 and follows its story through the national energy crisis of 2000-2001 up to the present. It is a quintissentially Northwest story.
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Since before Seattle voters decided to build their own lighting plant in 1902, City Light has been a source of fierce civic pride over its independence from "foreign" corporations, its impressive public works projects, and consistently low electricity rates on the one hand, and a headache for managers, politicians, and competitors on the other. This brisk history traces the utility's origins to 1889 and follows its story through the national energy crisis of 2000-2001 up to the present.
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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.
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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