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Puget Sound Energy recently released a newsletter spotlighting what it has done on Bainbridge Island in the past year.Upgraded the electric distribution system along NE Baker Hill Road and NE Hidden Cove Road. It replaced existing wire with tree wire and moved a section of overhead line underground to protect power lines from falling branches.It replaced overhead wires across Highway 305 at NE Hidden Cove Road and north of NE Day Road. To minimize impacts to customers and the public, it did the work at night and closed part of the highway.Updated aging equipment at the Port Madison Substation....

Puget Sound Energy said another "flex event" is happening Thursday morning. But this one won't be a repeat of what happened during last month's cold snap.

The bill would ban any gas company that serves more than 500,000 customers from connecting new natural gas lines to new buildings.

Customers received an email or a pre-recorded phone message alerting them to the flex event, but the message failed to explain what a flex event means.

Conserving energy is one of the most cost-effective ways of reducing heating and cooling bills when electricity demand spikes during cold snaps and heat waves.