[UTILITIES] Some figure from the EPRI conference
'In article <6ji20m$pkh$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
fedinfo@halifax.com wrote:
>All along I have said that as far as utilities are concerned regular IT
>systems are virtually meaningless as compared to embedded systems. For all
>intents and purposes, nothing has been done. Morella rightly says that society
>would shut down in the wake of non-compliant utilities.
>
>So, name ONE compliant utility? Oh, you can? Name ten more. Can you? So
>what? Drop in the bucket. Meaningless. There are about 9,000 all together in
>the US. If the vast majority are not ready, you can forget the whole shebang.
Paul, Paul, Paul - Why do you continue to miss state facts that support your
view, even after you have been corrected. Yes, there are probably 9000 utilities
in the US, but a very few control the vast amount of generation and distribution.
Just going off the numbers from the EPRI Y2K conference, a mere 29 utilities
control 78.2% of all nuclear plant generation. These are the big guys who also
control a lot of the fossil generation, but I need to do some more fact compilation
before I can give you those numbers.
And of course no one can say they are compliant right now, there is still plenty
of work to do. But the work is getting done.
Just as a gut check, one person at the EPRI Y2K conference asked the entire
group if anyone thought their lights would be out on 1/1/2000. Before anyone
could answer, I spoke up and stated that question can't be answered with
certainty because Y2K testing is not complete at any utility (I know Paul, that
wasn't very pollyannish of me). That fact was understood by all, but the question
was repeated, just to see what peoples best guess was. Not a single person raised
their hands. Is this a guarentee? No. But it has to be an indication that a great
deal of people directly involved in the problem think that it is solvable.
Fred Swirbul
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Subject:
Re: Utilities
Date:
Sat, 16 May 1998 07:15:16 GMT
From:
Fred Swirbul <fswirbul@ix.netcom.com>
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