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Article: Seattle Utility Says Top Power Users Are Industrial, Commercial Customers.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- March 18, 2001
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By Ross Anderson, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 18--While Seattle homeowners dim their lights and lower their thermostats to cope with an energy crisis, a huge proportion of the city's megawatts goes to two streets where virtually nobody lives.
According to Seattle City Light, most of the city's top power users are clustered along East Marginal Way and along Fifth Avenue in downtown Seattle, where individual buildings suck up enough electricity to power a good-sized town. The industrial users are clustered in a narrow corridor extending from Harbor Island to Boeing Field. Here Seattle's hydropower is used to manufacture ...