INDEX-UTILITIES - Index to utilities embedded software Y2K issues...
...that I found interesting.
Changed 6-28-1998
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Utility in Auckland
Auckland report
Message 3704770
Auckland: 'senior staff didn't panic early enough'
Message 3669232
Auckland 'Another excellent press release from Mercury
mercury.co.nz'
Status, pictures, maps showing the power lines.... gripping realistic picture of current
situation.
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UTILITIES
'...Rick Cowles, my predecessor in this column, also pointed out that utilities are also consumers in the supply chain. Significant disruptions in transportation, finance, or personal lives in 2000 will eventually hurt the utilities too. If this happens, the effect will be to see one plant, transmission line, or transformer at a time being removed from service because of supply difficulties.
Message 5032440
POWERONLINE: 'Taming the Millennium Bug
Although many in the industry have begun resolving software issues related to the year 2000, many are concerned about so-called embedded systems. Some microprocessors, chips, and other real-time operating systems may be unable to interpret the two-digit "00" for the year 2000. The system may either define "00" as the year 1900 or revert to the default year that was specified when it was manufactured.
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'For example, the electric utilities industry recently has embarked on a massive Year 2000 education and action campaign for electric companies large and small. The campaign stresses the need for the free sharing of information to ensure that no single, non-compliant Y2K company can bring down any other company as a result of a mutual dependence on the same power-distribution grids and systems. Any failure here may lead to power shortages or power rationing.
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Rick Cowles on nuclear plants.... in THE NATIONAL JOURNAL
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'The great problem in utility plants, Sen. Bennett said, is finding all the microchip systems ''embedded'' in the machinery, then testing them once they are repaired or replaced.
''You think you've got them all found, crank it up for the test and find out you didn't find them all. You fix them, crank it up again for the test and things still don't work,'' said Bennett, who recently visited two utility plants.
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'CHAIRMAN ROBERT Bennett, R-Utah, said a survey his office sent to 10 of the nation's largest electric, oil and gas utilities showed their preparations to ward off Year 2000 bugs were lagging.
Eight of the companies had not even finished assessing their automated systems, a first step in tackling the problem, Bennett said.
Message 4889066
Utilities and 'Islanding'
Message 4948269
Dependencies between utilities - by Rick Cowles; TAVA/RWBeck
Message 4884724
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'The below are excerpts from key writeups on today's US Senate hearing
on the Power Grid and Y2K. Both the leading Democrat and leading
Republican on the Committee are equally projecting severe risks that
are almost certain to occur.
Message 4850395
Senator Bennett's site
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Senate Y2K czar warns about possible blackouts
in Year 2000
Message 4744632
CSIS conference transcripts
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[UTILITIES] - 'Ms. Hirning' - Testimony of
Kathleen Hirning, Chief Information Officer
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
before the
Subcommittee on Technology
Committee on Science
Message 4653338
[UTILITIES] 'Millennium bug threat to power supplies '
By JOHN MACLEAY
4may98
THE managing director of the Australian Stock Exchange, Richard Humphry, has warned that
the Victorian electricity industry may be unable to fix the millennium bug computer problem on
time.
Message 4571939
[UTILITIES] Testimony of the Chief Information Officer (CIO)
for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC)
'Testimony of
Kathleen Hirning, Chief Information Officer
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Message 4476601
[UTILITIES] 'Extensive blackouts are the nightmare of the power industry
'SPACE PHYSICS
Geomagnetic Storms Can Threaten Electric Power Grid
Message 4485482
[UTILITIES] 'Welcome to The Edison Electric Institute
Here you see some numbers (of different types of electric utilities).
Message 4488283
[EPRI] INTERESTING! Rick Cowles' comment to Fred Swirbul on EPRI conference
Rick Cowles to Fred Swirbul: 'By your count, 75 *of the most
Y2k enlightened power companies* out of 9000 in the U.S. were at the
conference. I'm still preaching *awareness* to the other 8925.'
Message 4394822
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Cowles: There's an absolute wealth of information on EIA's site, but you have to be
willing to dig and read through some verrrryyy tedious reports.
[HAYES] Cowles on the Y2k book of Ulrich and Hayes
Rick Cowles: 'He co-authored "The Year 2000 Software Crisis - Challenge of the Century" (1997) and "The Year 2000 Software Crisis - The Continuing Challenge" (1998) with William Ulrich
I fully agree with Rick. I have read this book summer 1997 from front to end and backwards, so to speak. Still use it to get new ideas; or to check things. It gives the Y2k project manager a lot of backing is setting up and carrying out Y2k projects.
News from EPRI electrical power conference. Discussio Swirles / Cowles
Message 4409760
[UTILITIES]'Electric Power Research Institute once
again releases its Y2K Embedded Systems
Participating Utilities List
Message 4291629
Who is interested in EPRI's Website?
Message 4352476
[UTILITIES] The Electric Utility WWW Resource List
INCREDIBLE number of links to utilities! I suggest to look at a utility nearby; and start
looking for Y2K information!
Message 4352658
Cowles on electric utilities
y2ktimebomb.com
4/1998
'Most nuclear reactors can not start up (and then produce power), unless they initially get power from somewhere else
Message 3797173
Electric Utility Website EUY2K: Some highlights
Message 3796038
Feb.10 1997 Informationweek - Pacificorp
'Kappelman says government regulators should mandate deadlines for certain businesses, such as utilities and manufacturing, to fix not only software code but also equipment with embedded chips programmed with two-digit years.
Message 3728055
Electric Utility Website EUY2K: Some highlights
Message 3796038
'Y2K compliance means that the entire infrastructure has been tested as a system.
Message 3791506
3/1998
TECHNICAL From: 'Nuclear Utilities Software Management Group'-site
Message 3715099
EPRI: Second Workshop on Y2K Embedded Microprocessor
Problems in the Electric Power Industry
May 4-7, 1998
Message 3711857
EPRI Research Questionnaire: will there be electrical power?
epri.com
Message 3010141
EPRI Electrical Power Research Institute Y2K site - long post
epriweb.com
Message 3294734
EPRI Research Questionnaire: will there be electrical power?
epri.com
Message 3010141
From Rick Cowles well known site on utilities: 'the proposed GL is much stronger than the industry anticipated'
Message 3294495
'the industry needs to understand the intense pressure that the NRC is feeling on the issue'
'...one electric company that's got the guts to publicly recognize
that Y2K's an issue for them'
Rick Cowles, 16/10/1997 on C.S.Y2K
Message 3168272
Questions to be asked to your local electric company
Message 3125740
Y2K-EMBEDDED - the local General Electric plant in Salem, Va had to shut down for an extra week'
Message 3124716
Utility Y2K project in SW of GB
Message 3017136
swebuk.com
Message 3017120
'A priority is updating computer systems that control power-plant operations'
From the Columbus Dispatch, Ohio
dispatch.com
Message 3311107
'NRC GENERIC LETTER NO. 98-XX:
YEAR 2000 READINESS OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS
AT NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS'
News on the NRC - Nuclear Regulatory Commission:
nrc.gov
Message 3314692
Utilities zero in on Year 2000 problems
stlnet.com.
'Utilities zero in on Year 2000 problem
This seems to be a starting point for an inventory; but it has not progressed much up till now, IMO.
Message 3553059
epriweb.com
Ed Yourdon Replies to a Critic - also on electric utilities
'1998-03-02 12:00:02
There are approx 9,000 electric utility plants in the U.S., including 108 nuclear plants, and at the present time (Feb 25, 1998), NONE of them are Y2K compliant. None.'
Message 3576296
American Public Power Association - conference: Y2k issues will be a major topic of discussion'
Message 3612686
When: March 15 - 19, 1998
Frightening reading: Rick Cowles on Y2K status in the utilities
Cowles is the authority on Y2K in the electric utility industry.
Message 3508108
Feb/1998
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