[UTILITIES]'Electric Power Research Institute once
again releases its Y2K Embedded Systems
Participating Utilities List
04/28/1998: After several months of withdrawing its Y2K Embedded
Systems Participating Utilities List from public view, EPRI has a web
page listing its EPRI Year 2000 Embedded Systems Project
Participants (Agreements Finalized and or In Process).
Fortunately, for MAPP utility customers (MAPP is the Mid-Continent
Area Power Pool (http://www.mapp.org), several utilities, including
my own, NSP (http://www.nspco.com) have joined. The list as of
4/17/1998 includes the following companies. Note that some of
them are foreign-based, which is good. The ones that belong to
MAPP, according to a legislator familiar with MAPP's utilities have an
asterisk after their name below. Another item of interest is that
Houston Industries is the parent company of Minnegasco, the gas
utility serving the Twin Cities and other locations, in Minnesota.
Note, by itself, belonging to EPRI does not mean they will be
successful, however it is better than nothing. One can not pass a
course test if they do not take the class; at least now, it appears
some large Minnesota utilities are at least taking the class. However,
whether they are doing adequate homework and whether they have
the smarts, that is another thing -- the final exam is what counts and
only that. On top of this, this is a class where the exam answers are
not known ahead of time, even to the Professor? And the class has
never been taught before. The professor is nothing more than a
better student than the rest. Do you want to bet your life on all of the
critical players in the class getting an "A"? I am willing too if there is
a first class, community-wide fallback plan that people know and are
comfortable with like a fire drill.
Otherwise, I am uncomfortable not being safely prepared. That's
because, for Minnesotans, that involves: your electric utility, the
water and gas utilities, the toxic chemical factories (that if they
explode endanger nearby residents) the railroads that deliver the
coal that supplies about 80% of Minnesotans' electricity, the mining
companies, the petroleum companies that supply the diesel to the
trains, the oil tankers, the shipping ports both here and in the OPEC
companies, the oil rigs, oil wells, oil refineries, and all of the electric
utilities that supply the electricity to the electronic switches that the
trains rely upon from their source of coal to Minnesota? (If the coal is
from Wyoming, where a lot of the coal comes from, that means a lot
of utility service areas in that railroad route.) That is so many players
that it is a classroom full and how many times have you seen a
whole classroom get A's on their grade?
Allegheny Power System
Ameren Union Electric
American Electric Power
Arizona Public Service
Baltimore Gas & Electric
Boston Edison
Carolina Power & Light
Central & Southwest
Central Hudson Gas & Electric
Chevron (Caltex)
Cinergy
Commonwealth Edison
Consolidated Edison
Dairyland Power Coop.*
Dayton Power & Light
Detroit Edison
Dominion Energy
Duquesne Light Company
East Kentucky Power Coop.
Edmonton Power (Canada)
Electric Power Develop. Co., Ltd. (Japan)
Entergy
Eskom (So. Africa)
First Energy Corp.
Florida Power Corp.
General Public Utilities
Houston Industries
IVO (Finland)
Illinois Power Company
Indianapolis Power & Light
Israel Electric
Kansas City Power & Light
LA Dept. of Water and Power
Long Island Lighting Co.
MidAmerican
Nebraska Public Power District*
Nevada Power Company
New York Power Authority
Niagara Mohawk
North Atlantic (Seabrook Nuclear)
Northeast Utilities
Northern States Power*
Nuclear Electric (England)
Omaha Public Power District*
Orange & Rockland
PECO Nuclear
PacifiCorp
Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
Potomac Electric Power Company
Public Service Co. of New Mexico
Public Service Electric & Gas
SASK Power (Canada)
Salt River Project
South Carolina Electric & Gas
South Texas Project
Southern California Edison
Southern Company
Tennessee Valley Authority
Texaco (Caltex)
Texas Utilities Electric Company
Trans Alta (Canada)
Western Resources
Wisconsin Electric Power*
Wisconsin Power & Light* |
