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Автор: David W. Wilma, Walt Crowley
Название: Power for the People: A History of Seattle City Light
ISBN: 9780295985763
Издательство: Wiley EDC
Классификация:

История индустриализации и развития промышленности

Электроэнергетика

ISBN-10: 0295985763
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 128
Вес: 0.98 кг.
Дата издания: 2010-10-15
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 158 illus.
Размер: 290 x 261 x 17
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Основная тема: History of the Americas, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)
Подзаголовок: A history of seattle city light
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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 Seattles 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 utilitys 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.

Power for the People: A History of Seattle City Light, David W. Wilma, Walt Crowley