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Electricity industry says everything's OK for Y2K
By Rob Garretson and Jessica Davis
InfoWorld Electric
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?990116.whelectric.htm
Posted at 7:20 AM PT, Jan 16, 1999
What good would it do to fix corporate year-2000 problems if there
will be no power to run the systems?
The North American electric industry this week sought to reassure
the public on that issue, saying it is confident it will solve
year-2000 problems with little or no disruption to electricity
supplies, according to the latest industry self-assessment.
Although they acknowledged there is much more to be done, and that
some companies will not meet the industry's recommended deadlines,
the industry cited significant progress on year-2000 preparations
since the industry's first report to the Energy Department in
September 1998. They predicted any date-related computer glitches
would be minor.
Analysts welcomed the news, but as with anything related to year
2000, they questioned what would really happen when 2000 comes.
"They are stating it as best they know it at this point," said Karl
Jessen, director of the retail energy practice at the Yankee Group,
in Boston. "No one really knows what will happen."
However, many analysts believe mission-critical failures, or
failures in delivering power to customers, will be few or
nonexistent. Noncritical systems, such as building security or
customer billing, are more likely to be affected by the year-2000
bug, analysts said, and the chances of a national blackout are
remote.
The North American Electric Reliability Council, a private industry
group charged with coordinating the industry's year-2000 readiness
effort, identified some remaining critical issues.
•Reliance on third-party voice and data communication and its
limited ability to test its external communication systems. Real-time
operations and control of electric systems is dependent on
telecommunications service providers. The electric industry has been
working with this industry on joint year-2000 rollover tests this
year.
•Interdependence of the components in the electric power grid
requiring virtually all of more than 3,000 entities that generate,
transmit, and distribute electric power to meet the year-2000
targets to ensure uninterrupted service.
•The radial design of electric distribution systems that provide few
options for correction in real time in the event of a failure.
However, these are the "least digital" components and the least
susceptible to year-2000 anomalies.
The North American Electric Reliability Council can be reached at
www.nerc.com.
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