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The privately owned Seattle Steam Company, founded 1893, generates steam by burning natural gas and wood, and provides it to over 200 businesses in downtown Seattle—where hotels figure prominently among its customers—and on First Hill, where it serves several of the city's largest hospitals. The company was renamed Enwave Seattle in 2014 ...
Seattle City Light was the first electric utility in the nation to become greenhouse gas neutral (2005) [3] and has the longest-running energy conservation program in the country. The utility owns a large portion of its generation, which is predominately hydro, so is able to offer some of the country's lowest rates to its customers (of ...
Public utility districts are regulated by Title 54 of the Revised Code of Washington. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 1 ] Most PUDs provide electricity; some provide other services in addition. The first PUD was Mason No. 1, created by voters on November 6, 1934, serving as of 2017 [update] fewer than 5,000 customers.
Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) is a public utility agency of the city of Seattle, Washington, which provides water, sewer, drainage and garbage services for 1.3 million people in King County, Washington. [3] The agency was established in 1997, consolidating the city's Water Department with other city functions. [4]
A former streetcar substation in downtown Renton, built 1898 or 1899 [5]. Seattle was electrified since shortly after its incorporation in 1869. [b] Gas street lamps were installed in part of the downtown area in 1874, [6] but by 1886 (four years after Pearl Street Station was built in New York), the Seattle Electric Light Company had created the first incandescent lighting system west of the ...
Seattle Steam was founded in 1893 as the Seattle Steam Heat and Power Co. It owns 18 miles of pipes under the streets of Downtown. Its average winter output is 250,000 to 300,000 pounds (110,000 to 140,000 kg) of steam per hour; this drops to less than 100,000 pounds (45,000 kg) in the summer.
The city had the second-largest biotechnology and biomedical hub in Washington state, behind South Lake Union in Seattle, and has 61 companies that employ 4,000 people. [120] [121] In addition to development facilities, Bothell is home to several major biotechnology wet labs and manufacturers due to its abundance of available space. [122]
PSE was formed in 1997 when two of its largest ancestral companies – Puget Sound Power & Light Company and Washington Energy Company – merged. [21] Puget Sound Power and Light was itself preceded by several companies that were founded in the 1870s and 1880s and built the region's first hydroelectric plant at Snoqualmie Falls in 1898. [22]