Seattle's Electricity Supply
For 2010, the fuel mix for Seattle City Light was approximately 87.9% hydroelectric, 6.4% nuclear, 2.5% coal, 2.1% wind, and 1.1% natural gas, biomass, waste, petroleum, landfill gases and other. The sources for 2011 are as follows: Biomass 0.05% Coal 0.52% Hydro 92.39% Landfill Gases 0.25% Natural Gas 0.18% Nuclear 2.52% Petroleum 0.01% Waste 0.01% Wind 4.07%. The utility owns and operates the Skagit River Hydroelectric Project, a series of three hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River in northern Washington State. The project supplies approximately 25 percent of Seattle's electric power. The utility also owns and operates the Boundary Dam on the Pend Oreille River which can provide up to approximately 50% of Seattle's electric power. The remaining power comes from a mix of sources, including long-term contracts with the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA). According to SCL, residential customers currently pay about 6 cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity. Seattle has the lowest residential and commercial electrical rates amongst comparably-sized cities in the United States.
Read more about this topic: Seattle City Light
Famous quotes containing the words seattle, electricity and/or supply:
“If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people—including me—would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)
“Prudence and justice tell me that in electricity and steam there is more love for man than in chastity and abstinence from meat.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of men, make private interest submit to the interest of the public.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)