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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: Jeff Redman who wrote (194)9/13/1997 8:51:00 AM
From: Jim Rathmann   of 9818
 
I work for a large midwestern utility in the transmission and generation control center. The electric grid is mechanically a simple machine which hasn't changed much since its initial development. (besides capacity, obviously) The huge amount of redundant interconnected equipment is what gives it stability. Trouble on the grid is localized because each piece of equipment, from the largest nuclear generating complex to your local distribution transformer, will act to protect itself by disconnecting from the grid if need be. It happens every day. The protective relaying schemes for all this equipment are also relatively simple devices that have no date or time dependancies, nor do they need them. That is why there will be no millenium crash of the electric grid. Incidently, when I see disasterous predictions for collapse of the grid from people who apparently do not grasp the concept of how the grid operates, it makes me skeptical of the severity of whole Y2K problem.
jim
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