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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem
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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (358)5/10/1998 3:49:00 AM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (1) of 618
 
[UTILITIES] Cowles comments on number of utilities in the US

'On Sun, 10 May 1998 00:30:53 GMT, scottd@nbnet.nb.ca (Don Scott) wrote:

>
>Rick Cowles mentioned in another post that attendance at an Embedded
>Systems conference was disappointing because only "75 *of the most
>Y2k enlightened power companies* out of 9000 in the U.S." were in
>attendance.
>
>Are there really 9,000 power companies either generating or
>distributing power in the United States?

Source:

http://www.eia.doe.gov

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.

Out of that 9000, the vast majority are primarily transmission only.
American Public Power Association (APPA) and the National Rural Electric
Coop Association (NRECA) combined represent about 5000 municipal power
authorities and electric co-ops. The U.S. has a very non-centralized
electric power industry. And each individual electric company relies on a
bevy of others to deliver the juice.

I honestly don't know how the Canadian electric industry is structured, so
can't speak for our neighbors in the Great White North.

--
Rick Cowles (Public PGP key on request)

Now Shipping From AMAZON.COM: "Electric Utilities and Y2k" - The Book
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Subject: Re: To Rick C. - 9,000 power companies?
From: rcowles@waterw.com (Rick Cowles)
Date: 1998/05/09
Message-ID: <3554fd0c.6630815@enews.newsguy.com>
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