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 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.
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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
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22-Oct-98 |
Oregon/Washington Gas Company Is Compliant -- in Billing
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22-Oct-98 |
Ontario Hydro: Billing Looks Ready!
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22-Oct-98 |
Maine in Winter Without Electricity
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27-Oct-98 |
Rick Cowles Issues a Plea to the Industry: Abandon Denial
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28-Oct-98 |
Australian Researcher Reports to Parliament: Power System at Risk
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29-Oct-98 |
Solar Storms in 2000 Will Add to Chaos
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30-Oct-98 |
Denial Here Can Kill You. Start Facing Reality.
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30-Oct-98 |
Niagra Mohawk Says, Actions Are Underway!
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31-Oct-98 |
Ice Storm, 1998: Montreal Almost Lost Drinkable Water -- No Warning
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04-Nov-98 |
Iowa Power Company Estimates Costs: $32 Million to $75 Million
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05-Nov-98 |
China Diesel Generators: The Orders Pile Up
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11-Nov-98 |
Breaking Up the Grid in Advance: Is It Possible?
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11-Nov-98 |
Midwestern Power Company Completes Its Inventory After Two Years
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13-Nov-98 |
Power Company Keeps Ancient Posting: Compliance on Dec. 31, 1998
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13-Nov-98 |
Power Failure Leads to Huge Spill of Polluted Water
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16-Nov-98 |
Chicago's ComEd Has Billing Sofrware Snafu: Phones Jam Up
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16-Nov-98 |
286's Are Running This Giant Power Generator
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17-Nov-98 |
Cong. Horn on the Iron Triangle: Power, Telecommunications, Water
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17-Nov-98 |
Conectiv Corp: 0% Finished With Power Production Repairs
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19-Nov-98 |
Conective Seeks Buyers of Four Power Plants
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19-Nov-98 |
Springfield, Missouri Utility Says Tests Revealed No Problems
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21-Nov-98 |
British Power/Water Utiulity Company Warns of Breakdown
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23-Nov-98 |
Where You Can Still Buy Home Generators (Maybe)
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24-Nov-98 |
Nuclear Power Outside the U.S.: Bad News
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25-Nov-98 |
TVA System Passes a Y2K Test
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25-Nov-98 |
Rick Cowles Revisits the Alliant Energy Story
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25-Nov-98 |
Seabrook, NH Plant Has Now Begun Code Remediation
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25-Nov-98 |
The Grid in New England: A Subcommittee Has Been Formed!
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25-Nov-98 |
Minnesota Plant Will Begin Code Remediation in December
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26-Nov-98 |
Brunswick, North Carolina: No Testing of Embedded Systems
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26-Nov-98 |
Nine NRC Audits Remain to Be Published
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26-Nov-98 |
The Politics of Nuclear Power
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28-Nov-98 |
Detroit Edison Has Completed Its Assessment of Its Mission-Critical Systems
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30-Nov-98 |
Vermonteers Abandon Wood Heat
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30-Nov-98 |
Nuclear Engineer Says Plants Have Diesel: No Problem!
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01-Dec-98 |
Utilities Are Spending 2.6% on IT Departments
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01-Dec-98 |
The Alliant Energy Flap: Generating Controversy
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02-Dec-98 |
New Zealand's Local Governments Worry About Electricity
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02-Dec-98 |
Water, Property Values, and the West
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04-Dec-98 |
Victoria, Australia: 100% Complete on December 31, 1998
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07-Dec-98 |
Michigan Gas Company: What About Code Repair?
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07-Dec-98 |
Why The Grid Will Stand or Fall as a Unit
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07-Dec-98 |
Massive Profits for Suppliers in a Blackout
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09-Dec-98 |
San Francisco Power Shutdown Raises Y2K Fears Among Officials
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10-Dec-98 |
A Summary of the Power Industry: Embedded Systems
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10-Dec-98 |
The Southern Company Finished Assessment on Many Plants in Mid-1998
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10-Dec-98 |
Inexpensive Wood Burning Stoves
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14-Dec-98 |
Environmental Group Uses Y2K to Pressure Nuclear Power Plants
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14-Dec-98 |
Outside Power Is Needed to Run a Nuclear Power Plant
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14-Dec-98 |
NRC Reaffirms Its July 1, 1999 Deadline Requirement
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14-Dec-98 |
One Second to Shutdown: San Francisco
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15-Dec-98 |
San Francisco: Fail-Safe Systems Failed
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15-Dec-98 |
Energy Companies Have Spent Small Portions of Their Y2K Budgets
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16-Dec-98 |
Georgia's CIO Warns of Power, Water Failures
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17-Dec-98 |
If the Power Grid Goes Down, What Is the Case for Optimism?
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18-Dec-98 |
NRC Says a Power Grid Failure Is the Main Threat
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18-Dec-98 |
CSW to Finish Assessment of Embedded Systems in Sept., 1998
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18-Dec-98 |
Niagara Mohawk's SEC Report: Is Your Power Company Any Better?
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21-Dec-98 |
Power Failures and Water Treatment: Orange County, California
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21-Dec-98 |
South Dakota's Vulnerability: Natural Gas
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22-Dec-98 |
Middle Eastern Oil, Noncompliant Systems
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22-Dec-98 |
Bubble, Bubble, Toil & Trouble: Chemical Industry
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23-Dec-98 |
Petition to the NRC: Enforce Your Own Rules
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23-Dec-98 |
Not One Compliant U.S. Utility, According to Filings
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23-Dec-98 |
Y2K Is not on Top Priority List of Utilities' Senior Computer Executives
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29-Dec-98 |
Texas PUC Describes the Y2K Institutional Problems
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30-Dec-98 |
Loss of Back-Up Generators Created Scottish Nuclear Power Plant Crisis
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02-Jan-99 |
The Effects of Unplugging a Local Utility from the Grid
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08-Jan-99 |
Rick Cowles Applies Pareto's 80-20 Rule to the U.S. Power Industry
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09-Jan-99 |
Reporters, Like the Public, Don't Get the Picture
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11-Jan-99 |
National Guard Officers Say Guard Expects Grid's Failure
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11-Jan-99 |
New England Utilities Say They Will Miss June Deadline
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11-Jan-99 |
New England Utility Promises Nothing
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12-Jan-99 |
Nothing to It, Says ComEd of Chicago. NERC Agrees
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12-Jan-99 |
Bonneville Power Says They'll Be Finished on March 31
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12-Jan-99 |
NERC's Report: I'd Love to See It
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13-Jan-99 |
Australian Power Companies Miss 12/31/98 Deadline
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13-Jan-99 |
NERC Says Nuclear Plants Are OK, Will Soon Finish Assessment Stage
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13-Jan-99 |
Cowles on the Mythology of Going Manual
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13-Jan-99 |
Cowles Forecasts a Month of Really Bad Troubles
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13-Jan-99 |
NERC Report: "We Just Don't Know"
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13-Jan-99 |
NERC Report: Telecommunications Industry Holds The Key
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13-Jan-99 |
NERC Report: 44% of Systems Seem OK
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13-Jan-99 |
NERC Offers Industry Goals, Shuns Guarantees
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13-Jan-99 |
NERC Report: One-Third of Power Companies Have Completed the Initial Assessment
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13-Jan-99 |
NERC's Schedule: 30 Days from Testing to Y2K Ready
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13-Jan-99 |
The GPS Rollover Next August: Will It Shut Down Power Plants?
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13-Jan-99 |
NERC on Embedded Chips: Description of Problem, Silence on Solutions
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13-Jan-99 |
NERC's Standard: Y2K Ready, not Y2K Compliant
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14-Jan-99 |
Spinmaster Press Summarizes NERC Report
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14-Jan-99 |
Local Co-op Describes Supply Chain Problem
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15-Jan-99 |
NERC: The Bell-Shaped Curve of Completion
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16-Jan-99 |
Spent Fuel Rods: 5 Months to Cool
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18-Jan-99 |
Over 50% of U.S. Nuclear Plants Are in Assessment Phase
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18-Jan-99 |
3,690 of a Company's 6,000 Suppliers May Be Noncompliant
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18-Jan-99 |
Here Is a Year Old Posting from a Corporate CIO
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18-Jan-99 |
Here Is a Y2k Site That Tells It Like It Is
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19-Jan-99 |
Generators Are Getting Scarce
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19-Jan-99 |
How to Read an Industry Press Release
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20-Jan-99 |
Misreading the NERC Report: 50% of Plants Compliant
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21-Jan-99 |
U.S.A.: What Fuel Sources Run Your State's Power Plants?
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22-Jan-99 |
77% of U.S. Electricity Firms' Critical Systems Weren't Compliant in November
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22-Jan-99 |
If Your Power Company Isn't on This List, You're Fried
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22-Jan-99 |
The Complexity and Personnel Costs of Replacing Embedded Chips
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23-Jan-99 |
Dick Mills Dismisses Balkanization of the Grid as Disastrous
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23-Jan-99 |
Saskatchewan Power May Have to Run Its Systems Manually
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23-Jan-99 |
Canadian Electrical Industry Says It's A-OK
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25-Jan-99 |
Company Announces Compliant Status (of Its Business Systems)
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25-Jan-99 |
Duke Energy: Compliant Next Summer, Maybe
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25-Jan-99 |
Status of Natural Gas Industry: Who Knows?
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25-Jan-99 |
Warnings from the Natural Gas Industry
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25-Jan-99 |
Natural Gas Industry Is Facing a Disaster
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26-Jan-99 |
PG&E Is Working on It
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26-Jan-99 |
Here Is a Gas Disclosure Statement Written by Lawyers
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26-Jan-99 |
Lights Out in Tokyo: The TEPCO Report
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28-Jan-99 |
Y2K Specialist Warns of Grid Failure
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28-Jan-99 |
SCADA Systems and the Threat to Fuel Deliveries
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28-Jan-99 |
Happy-Face Howard Belasco on the Big Lie
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28-Jan-99 |
NRC Audit: Hope Creek
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28-Jan-99 |
NRC Audit: Davis-Beese
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28-Jan-99 |
Company Web Sites Don't Reveal Much on Y2K
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29-Jan-99 |
NRC Audit: Watts Bar
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29-Jan-99 |
NRC Audit: Limerick
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02-Feb-99 |
Web Site for Home Generators
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03-Feb-99 |
When a Railroad Fails to Deliver the Coal
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03-Feb-99 |
Natural Gas Association Says Not to Worry; They're Working on It
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03-Feb-99 |
When the Heat Goes Off in Winter: A 1998 Personal Testimony
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04-Feb-99 |
Australia: No Problem, Say Electricity Industry Smokesmen
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08-Feb-99 |
NERC's Statistics and Methodology Called into Question
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08-Feb-99 |
NRC's Proposed Contingency Plans
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08-Feb-99 |
How Can the System Be Fixed in 2000, After the Bug Hits?
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08-Feb-99 |
"On Course" in Britain Means Less Than 50%
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08-Feb-99 |
British Gas Is Well on Its Way, Says Rating Organization
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09-Feb-99 |
NERC's Statistics: More Bad News
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12-Feb-99 |
New Jersey's Largest Power Plant Will Be Compliant . . . in 2004
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12-Feb-99 |
Australia's Public Utilties Are Saying Little Publicly
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15-Feb-99 |
NRC Requests Comments, Re: Diesel Fuel Requirements
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15-Feb-99 |
Company's Generator Sales Are Up by a Factor of 10
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16-Feb-99 |
Peco Energy (Philadelphia) Has Spent $21 Million Out of $75 Million
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17-Feb-99 |
Generators for Sale (Maybe Until Feb. 18)
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17-Feb-99 |
NERC Schedules Industry Drill, Recommends Ways to Make It Successful
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22-Feb-99 |
Contingency Plans by Late 1999: Too Late
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26-Feb-99 |
Classic Mid-1970's Videotape Describes What May Be Coming
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26-Feb-99 |
Bad News for Texas Coal-Fired Power Plants: Trains
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01-Mar-99 |
Y2K Threat to Desalination Plants Is Finally Admitted
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02-Mar-99 |
The Nation Warns of Seabrook Plant's Noncompliance
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03-Mar-99 |
Nuclear Plant's Monitoring Equipment Goes Off in a Y2K Test
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03-Mar-99 |
No Power Shutdown, Says Energy Secretary
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08-Mar-99 |
Just Another Winter Storm, Says Michigan's Public Utilities Reps
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12-Mar-99 |
New Mexico Power CompanyThreatens Grid Withdrawal
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12-Mar-99 |
Y2K Test Crashes Philadelphia Area Nuclear Power Plant's Monitoring Systems
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12-Mar-99 |
Ontario Hydro Claims 98.8% Compliance, 100% by June 30
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12-Mar-99 |
Detroit Edison Faces Major Problems
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12-Mar-99 |
Detroit's Consumers Energy: Info for Customers vs. Info for Regulators
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15-Mar-99 |
Dick Mills and the World of Fantasia
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15-Mar-99 |
The Three Major Risk Areas of the Power Grid
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15-Mar-99 |
Smaller Cooperatives: Are They Behind the Big Boys?
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17-Mar-99 |
Senate Y2K Committee Report: Oil and Natural Gas
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20-Mar-99 |
Ukraine's Nuclear Plants: Unexpected Events
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20-Mar-99 |
Columbia, Missouri, Water & Light Has Serious Contingency Plans
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20-Mar-99 |
German Nuclear Power Plants Started Too Late
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23-Mar-99 |
Gartner Group: Happy-Face Summary, Terrifying Evidence
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25-Mar-99 |
NRC Audit: Braidwood
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25-Mar-99 |
NRC Audit: WNP-2
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26-Mar-99 |
Senate Y2K Committee's Warning About Chernobyl-Design Plants
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26-Mar-99 |
Oil Exporting Nations Are Not Compliant
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29-Mar-99 |
Dick Mills' Ice Skating Analogy: The Grid
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29-Mar-99 |
NRC Will Begin Superficial Reviews of 91 More Power Plants on April 1
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29-Mar-99 |
Russian Nuclear Power and Y2K: The DOE Is Not Saying Much
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31-Mar-99 |
Pennsylvania's PUC Is Not Convinced That Utilities Have Solved Y2K
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31-Mar-99 |
Brazilian Power Plant Test Created Havoc Last Year
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31-Mar-99 |
Ohio's Small Towns: The Benefits of Being Archaic
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01-Apr-99 |
The Nuclear Power Industry Got Started Late
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01-Apr-99 |
Southern California Edison Claims 80% Readiness
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02-Apr-99 |
California's PUC Criticizes PG&E on Blackout
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02-Apr-99 |
A Non-Event, Says Industry Representative
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02-Apr-99 |
Conectiv Has a Y2K Plan: Vague
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02-Apr-99 |
Australian Power Company Upgrades PC's to NT 4 (Noncompliant)
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08-Apr-99 |
Oil and Gas Industry Will Be 94% Ready in October, Survey Predicts
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08-Apr-99 |
Is This Y2K Related?
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09-Apr-99 |
NERC-Orchestrated Test Will Be Run Today
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10-Apr-99 |
NERC Says Test Was a Success. What a Surprise.
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10-Apr-99 |
PG&E Will Miss the NRC's July 1 Deadline
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12-Apr-99 |
There Will Be No Crisis in Texas, Says PUC
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12-Apr-99 |
There Will Be No Crisis in Texas, Says PUC
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12-Apr-99 |
Power Company Engineer: Public Must Take Our Word for It
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12-Apr-99 |
Over 50% of British Producers Face Problems
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12-Apr-99 |
Energy Companies in Britain: No News Yet
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15-Apr-99 |
2 Canadian Plants Will Miss the June Deadline
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16-Apr-99 |
The U.S. Army's Sobering Presentation on the Power Grid
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17-Apr-99 |
NRC Audit: North Anna
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17-Apr-99 |
Deadlines Will Be Missed, Says GAO
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17-Apr-99 |
GAO Report in Full
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19-Apr-99 |
No Big Problem, Says European Electrical Power Industry Groups
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21-Apr-99 |
4/10ths of 1% Have Done Date Testing
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21-Apr-99 |
10,421 Electric Utilities in the U.S., as of 1/1/98
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22-Apr-99 |
The Montreal Ice Storm of 1998: Prelude to Y2K?
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22-Apr-99 |
Koskinen Warns About Russia's Nuclear Power Plants
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23-Apr-99 |
Cowles on GAO's Report on the Power Industry
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23-Apr-99 |
Oil & Gas Industry: September 30 Deadline
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24-Apr-99 |
Admission on Chernobyl-Type Plants
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