Re: “Seattle Metropolis Gentle boosts its estimated fee will increase to about 5% a 12 months by means of 2030” [July 16, A1]:
Seattle fee payers are being performed as soon as once more. Elevated electrical energy prices regionally are being pushed by huge knowledge facilities, unproven inexperienced power conversions, large workplace and condo developments, and automobile electrification. Owners whose energy utilization stays largely unchanged are being caught with a disproportionate share of the fee.
It’s time infrastructure build-out is funded by the industries demanding it.
Vitality planners have to be reminded that “hope” will not be a method. Information facilities alone will enhance future power calls for effectively past the capability of wind, photo voltaic and a declining hydroelectric stock. Nuclear and, sure, pure fuel have to be reprioritized as essential components in our power combine.
Bob Stevens, Seattle
