Seattle Steam Company

Steam plant

Enwave Seattle, formerly known as the Seattle Steam Company, is a district heating public utility that provides steam (generated by burning natural gas, diesel oil, and recycled wood) to over 175 business in downtown Seattle and on First and Capitol Hills via 18 miles of steam pipeline.[1] Its plants are located on Western Avenue at Union Street, just west of the Pike Place Market, and on Post Avenue at Yesler Way, in Pioneer Square.

Seattle Steam was founded in 1893 as the Seattle Steam Heat and Power Co. It owns 18 miles of pipes under the streets of Downtown. Its average winter output is 250,000 to 300,000 lbs of steam per hour; this drops to less than 100,000 pounds in the summer.[1]

Seattle Steam's biggest customers are Swedish Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, and Virginia Mason Medical Center, which use the steam for heat and sterilization. Other big customers include hotels, which use the steam for heat and for generating hot water, Seattle Public Library, which uses it for heat and the Seattle Art Museum, which uses it for heat and humidity control.

In May 2014, Seattle Steam was bought by Enwave Energy Corporation, a unit of Brookfield Asset Management of Toronto, and renamed Enwave Seattle.[2][3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Bill Virgin (March 31, 2006). "Seattle Steam switching from gas to wood fuel". Seattle P-I. Retrieved 2007-11-30.
  2. ↑ Bill Lucia (May 12, 2014). "Seattle Steam Co., old utility with new ideas". Crosscut.com. Retrieved 2014-05-12.
  3. ↑ Private Seattle downtown steam utility sold, Seattle Times, May 8, 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-22
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