Skip to main content

Fire Weather

Warm, dry and windy conditions are forecasted for eastern Washington, including the Kittitas Valley, over the weekend.

As part of PSE’s wildfire safe operations, we will be turning on system settings in the affected areas. These settings, which are more sensitive to potential hazards like a tree branch touching a power line, will stay in place as long as high wildfire risk conditions are present.

Enhanced Powerline Settings are designed to help keep you safe, but they may result in unplanned power outages. This is not a Public Safety Power Shutoff, where we proactively turn off power in advance of severe weather.   

For more information or to report a power outage, visit PSE’s Outage map.

alert 

Safety first. Never touch or go within 35 feet of downed power lines because they might be energized. Call PSE at 1-888-225-5773 or 911 to report problems.

Report and track power outages online

Lake Hills-Phantom Lake 115 kV transmission line

Project overview

PSE built a new 115 kV transmission line between the existing Lake Hills and Phantom Lake substations. This critical upgrade, completed in 2021, was required to increase electric service reliability for more than 12,000 Bellevue residential and commercial customers in the Crossroads, Robinswood, Lake Hills, Eastgate, College Hills and Phantom Lake neighborhoods.

Additionally, we "looped" Lake Hills Substation, meaning it is now connected to two transmission lines instead of one. If one line loses power, the other line will still feed the substation and provide uninterrupted power to customers. By adding another transmission pathway to the electric system, we can continue to supply our Bellevue customers with dependable power for years to come.

Lake Hills Phantom Lake
Map of Lake Hills-Phantom Lake 115 kV transmission line (Download PDF)