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Category: Power_Grid

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(Links to documents appear after the summary.)

Electrical power is the Big One. This is the heart of Western Civilization. If the power generation plants fail because of the effects of the Millennium Bug, it's literally over for the West. We are all hooked up to the system. But no public utility will survive if the power goes down and stays down. No business will survive. It will be a total breakdown. As Roberto Vacca titled his 1973 book, it would mean THE COMING DARK AGE.

The issue here is the domino effect. Power generation in the United States relies on coal -- in the range of 40%. The problem here is railway freight. How can the plants get delivery of coal if the railroad system goes down because of noncompliance? Coal delivery problems began in the winter of 1997-98.

Then there is nuclear power, which supplies about 20% of the power generated in the United States. What if the Nuclear Regulatory Commission closes nuclear plants in late 1999 because they are not y2k compliant. At present, they are not compliant. The NRC has sent a warning to all 108 nuclear plants. Take 20% of the nation's power off line in one day -- 40% in some regions -- and what happens to the grid?

The typical large city power plant has something in the range of 5,000 suppliers of goods and services. How will they be paid if the banks go down? Also, how will users pay the power companies? This problem must be dealt with now, not in 2000 and beyond.

The grid may not go down overnight. (Then again, it may.) The problem is erosion: the second law of thermodynamics. Things wear out. How do they supply the plants with replacement parts if the banking system is in a crisis? This is the problem of the division of labor. A banking failure threatens the grid. The failure of the grid threatens everything.

If your local power plant somehow solves these problems, what happens if others don't solve them? What if an overloaded grid shuts down? It could take down your local system. This is the coordination problem: among the local generation stations, among the regional grids, and among the suppliers.

We don't want to think about this. But the problem exists. The articles I've posted give some hint of the magnitude of the problem. There are over 7,800 power-supplying organizations in the United States. They are all tied together in one gigantic mainframe-controlled system that is laced with embedded chips. Canada is tied into our system.

Sometimes power goes down all over a region. There are several regional districts. They are interconnected. Supposedly, the regional grids can be separated from the others if one goes down. But this circuit-breaker system, like everything else on the grids, relies on computers.

"It can't happen," you say. I hope you're correct. Tell me, why can't it happen? Please don't respond, "Because I don't want it to."

Are you dependent on local public utilities that will go down if your local power generation system goes down? Yes, you are. You are TOTALLY dependent, in all likelihood. What if your local power system goes down with the regional system? Or even the national? What if your local system actually does get compliant, but then is pulled into the black hole of the national power grid? Maybe it can pull out in time. Maybe the computers inside the region are all compliant as well as integrated. Don't count on it.

It's not good enough to get a local system y2k-compliant. Most of the power systems of the nation must be compliant or they all go down, region by region, in one gigantic rolling blackout. If New York City goes down, Hog Jowls, Alabama probably will, too.

Then so does every computer in the country, compliant or not. And if they all go down, nobody will be able to repair any of them. There is no tomorrow if the national power grid goes down on Jan. 1, 2000.

Again, I am not predicting this. What I am predicting is that the fractional reserve banking system is at risk, and that government controls on banking will not help to repair that endangered system. I fear erosion: the wearing out of all complex systems and the inability of engineers to get replacement parts because of a failure in the means of payment and a contracting division of labor. If railway freight is compromised at the same time, the likelihood of power failures rises.

Nobody in authority is talking about the relation of y2k and the electrical power generators of the world. Yet there is no issue more critical to our survival.

I am making my personal plans based on what I understand. What I understand is this: (1) there is not one compliant plant in the U.S.; (2) power plants must be supplied with fuel, which requires trains (coal) or nuclear power; (3) power plants rely on suppliers (up to 6,000); (4) things wear out; (5) it takes power to generate power, i.e., the suppliers that make power generation possible. In short, it takes the division of labor. I think the division of labor will collapse in 2000. If the power grid goes completely down, it will stay down. The division of labor will collapse to early 19th century levels, except that we have lost early 19th century skills. This is unthinkable, of course, but I keep thinking about it.

One site is devoted to y2k and electrical power. I suggest that you visit it.

(Other categories: "Domino Effect," "Noncompliant Chips.")

Updated - Subject

09-Jun-97   Solar Flares in 2000: Another Disaster Factor
24-Jun-97   A Vulnerable, Brittle System
24-Jun-97   Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Y2K
24-Jun-97   The Vulnerable Power Grid
24-Jun-97   The Day the Power Shut Down: July 3, 1996
16-Jul-97   Summary of Y2K Issues Facing Nuclear Power
22-Jul-97   Outsourcing Repairs? The Door Is Closing
28-Jul-97   Shutdown: If 2 or More Primary Lines Go Down at Once
28-Aug-97   Specialist Predicts NRC Will Shut Down Nuclear Plants in 12/99
28-Aug-97   Y2K Dependent Areas of a Utilities Company That Could Tank It
20-Sep-97   The Embedded Chip Problem: Personal Testimony
02-Oct-97   Risks to Nuclear Power Plants
02-Oct-97   The Nuclear Regulator Commission's Dependence (and Ours)
06-Oct-97   Warning: Nuclear Power Plants Are Not Compliant
07-Oct-97   Industry Group Asks Terrifying Questions
22-Oct-97   Noncompliant Chips and Public Utilities
24-Oct-97   Australian Phone Company Worries About Electricity
27-Oct-97   Threat to Power Generating Stations: Bad Chips
01-Nov-97   Open Letter to the Power Industry
01-Nov-97   If the Trains Can't Deliver Coal to Power Generation Stations
03-Nov-97   Warning from TVA's Y2K Manager: What Systems Could Fail
04-Nov-97   A Looming Disaster, Says Former Oklahoma Representative
10-Nov-97   California Power Company Y2K Repair Overseer Says, No Problem!
11-Nov-97   Nuclear Power Problem: How Dependent Is Your Region?
14-Nov-97   Y2K Problems for Nuclear Power Plants: Will They Stay Open?
25-Nov-97   New Government Move to Centralize the Grid
01-Dec-97   Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC): Still Assessing
03-Dec-97   Y2K Project Manager Warns: The Embedded Chip Problem Is Real
04-Dec-97   Railroad Jam-Up Creates Coal Shortage, Power Problems
08-Dec-97   English Utility Owned by Huge US Power Company Lists Problem Areas
10-Dec-97   Embedded Chips Shut Down Plant for 13 Days
11-Dec-97   Why the NRC Is Likely to Shut Down All 108 Nuclear Power Plants
29-Dec-97   Electric Utilities Begin Selling Off Assets. Why?
12-Jan-98   Theatened Systems and Silent Public Utilities in Minnesota
12-Jan-98   No Y2K Fix for Power-Generation Systems Yet -- Just Billing
22-Jan-98   Expert Says Chance of Failures Is 100% (This Seems Fairly High)
05-Feb-98   Nuclear Power Plants at Risk
05-Feb-98   Nuclear Power Industry Is Not Being Forthright, Says Y2K Programmer
05-Feb-98   Fried Green Transformers in 2000, Specialist Warns
05-Feb-98   NRC Calls for Comments on Plants' Operations
11-Feb-98   SEC Sends Out a Warning Letter to Public Utilities
12-Feb-98   Warning from Y2K Repairman: The Industry Is Still in Denial
20-Feb-98   BUSINESS WEEK Admits: The Experts Aren't Sure
23-Feb-98   Aukland Shuts Down
24-Feb-98   Aukland Described: A Mess
27-Feb-98   The Industry Won't Make It, Says Industry Watchdog
28-Feb-98   Check Your Region's Dependence on Nuclear, Coal/Oil
09-Mar-98   Montreal Power: Outside Suppliers Saved the System (1998)
09-Mar-98   Auckland: A Catastrophe and Foretaste of Things to Come
10-Mar-98   British Government Fears a Power Failure
11-Mar-98   6,000 Different Things That Can Disrupt Your Power Company
11-Mar-98   Contingency Planning in Britain for Power Failures
13-Mar-98   Near-Breakdown in Auckland: One Man's Testimony
17-Mar-98   BUSINESS WEEK Feedback: Utilities at Risk.
07-Apr-98   Good News from Joel Skousen (A Rare Event)
07-Apr-98   A Nuclear Power Plant's 1999 Schedule: 60 Days to Spare
07-Apr-98   Huge Power Company Admits It's Not Compliant Yet
08-Apr-98   Texas Utilities: 100 Million Lines, Began in Mid-1996
08-Apr-98   Ontario Hydro Admits the Problem: The Grid's Participants
08-Apr-98   Classic Strategy: Warn Readers About Their Outfits' Y2K Problems
08-Apr-98   Meanwhile, Back in the Nation's Capitol....
08-Apr-98   Could You Be a Little More Specific?
08-Apr-98   No Standards for the Repair
09-Apr-98   Gas Pipelines: Another Power Problem
09-Apr-98   $75,000 to Belong to an Embedded Chip Work Group
13-Apr-98   Russian Nuclear Power Plants
13-Apr-98   Deregulation: Problems for the Grid
16-Apr-98   Hackers Can Shut Down Power Grid, Military Admits
23-Apr-98   Ontario Hydro: 40% Finished With Code Repair
24-Apr-98   Emergency Power Ends When the Generators Run Out of Fuel
29-Apr-98   Southern Company: 50 Million Lines of Code
29-Apr-98   Florida Power & Light: Barely to Code Remediation
30-Apr-98   Vicious Circle: Coal - Trains - Electrical Train Switching
02-May-98   Lonely Natural Gas Company Reveals Y2K Plans
03-May-98   Natural Gas in Reno: Vague, Vague, Vague
04-May-98   U.S. Nuclear Power Industry Is at the Chips Inventory Stage
05-May-98   CIA Specialist Warns of the Threat
06-May-98   Utility Insider Voices Doubts
07-May-98   Dallas in the Dark: Not Much Time Remaining
12-May-98   Deadline for Nuclear Power Plants' Compliance: July 1, 1999
13-May-98   Y2K Tests Crash Power Companies Every Time
15-May-98   Monitors That Are Not Compliant: Shut-Downs Assured
15-May-98   We Just Don't Know Says Senior Government Bureaucrat
15-May-98   Largest Utilities in Texas: $300,000 Budgeted Per Utility
15-May-98   NRC Is Tightening the Screws
15-May-98   Nuclear Energy Industry Will Be Compliant, Says Industry Official
15-May-98   U.S. Capitol: Local Company Hasn't Yet Assessed Embedded Chips
15-May-98   The Stakes Are Very High, Says Cong. Morella
16-May-98   EPRI Meeting Report: Barely at Assessment, Test Failures
16-May-98   Rebooting Takes Six Times Normal Power
16-May-98   Noncompliant Firms, 7,800; Compliant Firms, 0
19-May-98   Smaller Utilities Could Bring Down the Grid
19-May-98   Natural Gas: A Vital But Noncompliant Industry
22-May-98   Australia's Power Supplies May Not All Make It
26-May-98   Embedded Chips: The Big Problem, Says Florida Power Official
26-May-98   Florida Power & Light: Halfway There (1995-98)
31-May-98   Ontario Hydro Is Working on Its Business Systems
02-Jun-98   Sgroi #1: The Nature of the Problem
02-Jun-98   Sgroi #2: A Possible Solution
08-Jun-98   Cambridge University Specialist Issues Warning
12-Jun-98   Industry Executives Admit: Some Systems Will Fail
12-Jun-98   Map of All U.S. Nuclear Power Plants
12-Jun-98   Senate Hearings on Grid: Bordering on Gloom and Doom
12-Jun-98   Natural Gas Industry Decides to Skip Full Testing
13-Jun-98   Senate Hearings on the Grid: Media Coverage Is High
15-Jun-98   Yardeni Reports: The Utilities Aren't Talking
17-Oct-98   Why the NRC Must Act Decisively on July 1, 1999
22-Oct-98   Oregon/Washington Gas Company Is Compliant -- in Billing
22-Oct-98   Ontario Hydro: Billing Looks Ready!
22-Oct-98   Maine in Winter Without Electricity
27-Oct-98   Rick Cowles Issues a Plea to the Industry: Abandon Denial
28-Oct-98   Australian Researcher Reports to Parliament: Power System at Risk
29-Oct-98   Solar Storms in 2000 Will Add to Chaos
30-Oct-98   Denial Here Can Kill You. Start Facing Reality.
30-Oct-98   Niagra Mohawk Says, Actions Are Underway!
31-Oct-98   Ice Storm, 1998: Montreal Almost Lost Drinkable Water -- No Warning
04-Nov-98   Iowa Power Company Estimates Costs: $32 Million to $75 Million
05-Nov-98   China Diesel Generators: The Orders Pile Up
11-Nov-98   Breaking Up the Grid in Advance: Is It Possible?
11-Nov-98   Midwestern Power Company Completes Its Inventory After Two Years
13-Nov-98   Power Company Keeps Ancient Posting: Compliance on Dec. 31, 1998
13-Nov-98   Power Failure Leads to Huge Spill of Polluted Water
16-Nov-98   Chicago's ComEd Has Billing Sofrware Snafu: Phones Jam Up
16-Nov-98   286's Are Running This Giant Power Generator
17-Nov-98   Cong. Horn on the Iron Triangle: Power, Telecommunications, Water
17-Nov-98   Conectiv Corp: 0% Finished With Power Production Repairs
19-Nov-98   Conective Seeks Buyers of Four Power Plants
19-Nov-98   Springfield, Missouri Utility Says Tests Revealed No Problems
21-Nov-98   British Power/Water Utiulity Company Warns of Breakdown
23-Nov-98   Where You Can Still Buy Home Generators (Maybe)
24-Nov-98   Nuclear Power Outside the U.S.: Bad News
25-Nov-98   TVA System Passes a Y2K Test
25-Nov-98   Rick Cowles Revisits the Alliant Energy Story
25-Nov-98   Seabrook, NH Plant Has Now Begun Code Remediation
25-Nov-98   The Grid in New England: A Subcommittee Has Been Formed!
25-Nov-98   Minnesota Plant Will Begin Code Remediation in December
26-Nov-98   Brunswick, North Carolina: No Testing of Embedded Systems
26-Nov-98   Nine NRC Audits Remain to Be Published
26-Nov-98   The Politics of Nuclear Power
28-Nov-98   Detroit Edison Has Completed Its Assessment of Its Mission-Critical Systems
30-Nov-98   Vermonteers Abandon Wood Heat
30-Nov-98   Nuclear Engineer Says Plants Have Diesel: No Problem!
01-Dec-98   Utilities Are Spending 2.6% on IT Departments
01-Dec-98   The Alliant Energy Flap: Generating Controversy
02-Dec-98   New Zealand's Local Governments Worry About Electricity
02-Dec-98   Water, Property Values, and the West
04-Dec-98   Victoria, Australia: 100% Complete on December 31, 1998
07-Dec-98   Michigan Gas Company: What About Code Repair?
07-Dec-98   Why The Grid Will Stand or Fall as a Unit
07-Dec-98   Massive Profits for Suppliers in a Blackout
09-Dec-98   San Francisco Power Shutdown Raises Y2K Fears Among Officials
10-Dec-98   A Summary of the Power Industry: Embedded Systems
10-Dec-98   The Southern Company Finished Assessment on Many Plants in Mid-1998
10-Dec-98   Inexpensive Wood Burning Stoves
14-Dec-98   Environmental Group Uses Y2K to Pressure Nuclear Power Plants
14-Dec-98   Outside Power Is Needed to Run a Nuclear Power Plant
14-Dec-98   NRC Reaffirms Its July 1, 1999 Deadline Requirement
14-Dec-98   One Second to Shutdown: San Francisco
15-Dec-98   San Francisco: Fail-Safe Systems Failed
15-Dec-98   Energy Companies Have Spent Small Portions of Their Y2K Budgets
16-Dec-98   Georgia's CIO Warns of Power, Water Failures
17-Dec-98   If the Power Grid Goes Down, What Is the Case for Optimism?
18-Dec-98   NRC Says a Power Grid Failure Is the Main Threat
18-Dec-98   CSW to Finish Assessment of Embedded Systems in Sept., 1998
18-Dec-98   Niagara Mohawk's SEC Report: Is Your Power Company Any Better?
21-Dec-98   Power Failures and Water Treatment: Orange County, California
21-Dec-98   South Dakota's Vulnerability: Natural Gas
22-Dec-98   Middle Eastern Oil, Noncompliant Systems
22-Dec-98   Bubble, Bubble, Toil & Trouble: Chemical Industry
23-Dec-98   Petition to the NRC: Enforce Your Own Rules
23-Dec-98   Not One Compliant U.S. Utility, According to Filings
23-Dec-98   Y2K Is not on Top Priority List of Utilities' Senior Computer Executives
29-Dec-98   Texas PUC Describes the Y2K Institutional Problems
30-Dec-98   Loss of Back-Up Generators Created Scottish Nuclear Power Plant Crisis
02-Jan-99   The Effects of Unplugging a Local Utility from the Grid
08-Jan-99   Rick Cowles Applies Pareto's 80-20 Rule to the U.S. Power Industry
09-Jan-99   Reporters, Like the Public, Don't Get the Picture
11-Jan-99   National Guard Officers Say Guard Expects Grid's Failure
11-Jan-99   New England Utilities Say They Will Miss June Deadline
11-Jan-99   New England Utility Promises Nothing
12-Jan-99   Nothing to It, Says ComEd of Chicago. NERC Agrees
12-Jan-99   Bonneville Power Says They'll Be Finished on March 31
12-Jan-99   NERC's Report: I'd Love to See It
13-Jan-99   Australian Power Companies Miss 12/31/98 Deadline
13-Jan-99   NERC Says Nuclear Plants Are OK, Will Soon Finish Assessment Stage
13-Jan-99   Cowles on the Mythology of Going Manual
13-Jan-99   Cowles Forecasts a Month of Really Bad Troubles
13-Jan-99   NERC Report: "We Just Don't Know"
13-Jan-99   NERC Report: Telecommunications Industry Holds The Key
13-Jan-99   NERC Report: 44% of Systems Seem OK
13-Jan-99   NERC Offers Industry Goals, Shuns Guarantees
13-Jan-99   NERC Report: One-Third of Power Companies Have Completed the Initial Assessment
13-Jan-99   NERC's Schedule: 30 Days from Testing to Y2K Ready
13-Jan-99   The GPS Rollover Next August: Will It Shut Down Power Plants?
13-Jan-99   NERC on Embedded Chips: Description of Problem, Silence on Solutions
13-Jan-99   NERC's Standard: Y2K Ready, not Y2K Compliant
14-Jan-99   Spinmaster Press Summarizes NERC Report
14-Jan-99   Local Co-op Describes Supply Chain Problem
15-Jan-99   NERC: The Bell-Shaped Curve of Completion
16-Jan-99   Spent Fuel Rods: 5 Months to Cool
18-Jan-99   Over 50% of U.S. Nuclear Plants Are in Assessment Phase
18-Jan-99   3,690 of a Company's 6,000 Suppliers May Be Noncompliant
18-Jan-99   Here Is a Year Old Posting from a Corporate CIO
18-Jan-99   Here Is a Y2k Site That Tells It Like It Is
19-Jan-99   Generators Are Getting Scarce
19-Jan-99   How to Read an Industry Press Release
20-Jan-99   Misreading the NERC Report: 50% of Plants Compliant
21-Jan-99   U.S.A.: What Fuel Sources Run Your State's Power Plants?
22-Jan-99   77% of U.S. Electricity Firms' Critical Systems Weren't Compliant in November
22-Jan-99   If Your Power Company Isn't on This List, You're Fried
22-Jan-99   The Complexity and Personnel Costs of Replacing Embedded Chips
23-Jan-99   Dick Mills Dismisses Balkanization of the Grid as Disastrous
23-Jan-99   Saskatchewan Power May Have to Run Its Systems Manually
23-Jan-99   Canadian Electrical Industry Says It's A-OK
25-Jan-99   Company Announces Compliant Status (of Its Business Systems)
25-Jan-99   Duke Energy: Compliant Next Summer, Maybe
25-Jan-99   Status of Natural Gas Industry: Who Knows?
25-Jan-99   Warnings from the Natural Gas Industry
25-Jan-99   Natural Gas Industry Is Facing a Disaster
26-Jan-99   PG&E Is Working on It
26-Jan-99   Here Is a Gas Disclosure Statement Written by Lawyers
26-Jan-99   Lights Out in Tokyo: The TEPCO Report
28-Jan-99   Y2K Specialist Warns of Grid Failure
28-Jan-99   SCADA Systems and the Threat to Fuel Deliveries
28-Jan-99   Happy-Face Howard Belasco on the Big Lie
28-Jan-99   NRC Audit: Hope Creek
28-Jan-99   NRC Audit: Davis-Beese
28-Jan-99   Company Web Sites Don't Reveal Much on Y2K
29-Jan-99   NRC Audit: Watts Bar
29-Jan-99   NRC Audit: Limerick
02-Feb-99   Web Site for Home Generators
03-Feb-99   When a Railroad Fails to Deliver the Coal
03-Feb-99   Natural Gas Association Says Not to Worry; They're Working on It
03-Feb-99   When the Heat Goes Off in Winter: A 1998 Personal Testimony
04-Feb-99   Australia: No Problem, Say Electricity Industry Smokesmen
08-Feb-99   NERC's Statistics and Methodology Called into Question
08-Feb-99   NRC's Proposed Contingency Plans
08-Feb-99   How Can the System Be Fixed in 2000, After the Bug Hits?
08-Feb-99    "On Course" in Britain Means Less Than 50%
08-Feb-99   British Gas Is Well on Its Way, Says Rating Organization
09-Feb-99   NERC's Statistics: More Bad News
12-Feb-99   New Jersey's Largest Power Plant Will Be Compliant . . . in 2004
12-Feb-99   Australia's Public Utilties Are Saying Little Publicly
15-Feb-99   NRC Requests Comments, Re: Diesel Fuel Requirements
15-Feb-99   Company's Generator Sales Are Up by a Factor of 10
16-Feb-99   Peco Energy (Philadelphia) Has Spent $21 Million Out of $75 Million
17-Feb-99   Generators for Sale (Maybe Until Feb. 18)
17-Feb-99   NERC Schedules Industry Drill, Recommends Ways to Make It Successful
22-Feb-99   Contingency Plans by Late 1999: Too Late
26-Feb-99   Classic Mid-1970's Videotape Describes What May Be Coming
26-Feb-99   Bad News for Texas Coal-Fired Power Plants: Trains
01-Mar-99   Y2K Threat to Desalination Plants Is Finally Admitted
02-Mar-99   The Nation Warns of Seabrook Plant's Noncompliance
03-Mar-99   Nuclear Plant's Monitoring Equipment Goes Off in a Y2K Test
03-Mar-99   No Power Shutdown, Says Energy Secretary
08-Mar-99   Just Another Winter Storm, Says Michigan's Public Utilities Reps
12-Mar-99   New Mexico Power CompanyThreatens Grid Withdrawal
12-Mar-99   Y2K Test Crashes Philadelphia Area Nuclear Power Plant's Monitoring Systems
12-Mar-99   Ontario Hydro Claims 98.8% Compliance, 100% by June 30
12-Mar-99   Detroit Edison Faces Major Problems
12-Mar-99   Detroit's Consumers Energy: Info for Customers vs. Info for Regulators
15-Mar-99   Dick Mills and the World of Fantasia
15-Mar-99   The Three Major Risk Areas of the Power Grid
15-Mar-99   Smaller Cooperatives: Are They Behind the Big Boys?
17-Mar-99   Senate Y2K Committee Report: Oil and Natural Gas
20-Mar-99   Ukraine's Nuclear Plants: Unexpected Events
20-Mar-99   Columbia, Missouri, Water & Light Has Serious Contingency Plans
20-Mar-99   German Nuclear Power Plants Started Too Late
23-Mar-99   Gartner Group: Happy-Face Summary, Terrifying Evidence
25-Mar-99   NRC Audit: Braidwood
25-Mar-99   NRC Audit: WNP-2
26-Mar-99   Senate Y2K Committee's Warning About Chernobyl-Design Plants
26-Mar-99   Oil Exporting Nations Are Not Compliant
29-Mar-99   Dick Mills' Ice Skating Analogy: The Grid
29-Mar-99   NRC Will Begin Superficial Reviews of 91 More Power Plants on April 1
29-Mar-99   Russian Nuclear Power and Y2K: The DOE Is Not Saying Much
31-Mar-99   Pennsylvania's PUC Is Not Convinced That Utilities Have Solved Y2K
31-Mar-99   Brazilian Power Plant Test Created Havoc Last Year
31-Mar-99   Ohio's Small Towns: The Benefits of Being Archaic
01-Apr-99   The Nuclear Power Industry Got Started Late
01-Apr-99   Southern California Edison Claims 80% Readiness
02-Apr-99   California's PUC Criticizes PG&E on Blackout
02-Apr-99   A Non-Event, Says Industry Representative
02-Apr-99   Conectiv Has a Y2K Plan: Vague
02-Apr-99   Australian Power Company Upgrades PC's to NT 4 (Noncompliant)
08-Apr-99   Oil and Gas Industry Will Be 94% Ready in October, Survey Predicts
08-Apr-99   Is This Y2K Related?
09-Apr-99   NERC-Orchestrated Test Will Be Run Today
10-Apr-99   NERC Says Test Was a Success. What a Surprise.
10-Apr-99   PG&E Will Miss the NRC's July 1 Deadline
12-Apr-99   There Will Be No Crisis in Texas, Says PUC
12-Apr-99   There Will Be No Crisis in Texas, Says PUC
12-Apr-99   Power Company Engineer: Public Must Take Our Word for It
12-Apr-99   Over 50% of British Producers Face Problems
12-Apr-99   Energy Companies in Britain: No News Yet
15-Apr-99   2 Canadian Plants Will Miss the June Deadline
16-Apr-99   The U.S. Army's Sobering Presentation on the Power Grid
17-Apr-99   NRC Audit: North Anna
17-Apr-99   Deadlines Will Be Missed, Says GAO
17-Apr-99   GAO Report in Full
19-Apr-99   No Big Problem, Says European Electrical Power Industry Groups
21-Apr-99   4/10ths of 1% Have Done Date Testing
21-Apr-99   10,421 Electric Utilities in the U.S., as of 1/1/98
22-Apr-99   The Montreal Ice Storm of 1998: Prelude to Y2K?
22-Apr-99   Koskinen Warns About Russia's Nuclear Power Plants
23-Apr-99   Cowles on GAO's Report on the Power Industry
23-Apr-99   Oil & Gas Industry: September 30 Deadline
24-Apr-99   Admission on Chernobyl-Type Plants


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