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The City of Seattle
Ordinance
Council Bill
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An ordinance relating to the City Light Department; establishing new retail rate schedules; establishing a new customer class and conditions of service for data centers whose electricity demand constitutes a new large load; modifying customer charges for service connections; modifying customer eligibility for residential rate assistance; augmenting the rate stabilization account mechanism; amending Sections 21.49.020, 21.49.030, 21.49.040, 21.49.052, 21.49.055, 21.49.057, 21.49.058, 21.49.060, 21.49.065, 21.49.083, 21.49.086, 21.49.110, and 21.49.130 of the Seattle Municipal Code; adding a new Section 21.49.059 to the Seattle Municipal Code; and repealing Section 21.49.081 of the Seattle Municipal Code.
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The City Light Department (Department) is projecting growth in retail electricity sales driven largely by increased adoption of electric vehicles and other forms of environmentally beneficial electrification.
The cost for procuring new, reliable, carbon-free power resources needed to serve this growing load has risen substantially in an increasingly competitive regional market.
The region's transition from bilateral power trading to organized energy markets is increasing the complexity and volatility of both long-term resource procurement and short-term energy trading, requiring new tools, expertise, and staffing the Department has not needed during decades of declining load.
The Department's costs for labor, materials, and contracted services necessary to provide electrical services are increasing faster than general inflation.
The Department has deferred a significant amount of maintenance and asset replacement in the distribution system, including underground cable replacement, requiring accelerated work over the coming decade to maintain adequate relia...
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