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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BM who wrote (871)	1/12/1998 12:52:00 AM
From: Josef Svejk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Humbly report, BM, from a document that I have in front of me, but cannot quote the source (a y2k compliance official in a power plant) by name: I really don't know what will happen in the power industry come year 2000. I know that the shorting out of one plant in the middle of winter could feasably bring down the grid in other plants that are not able to cope with the increased load. In a private conversation with X, he expressed the opinion that a 30% outage is not out of the realm of reality. If 30% of the nation's grid goes, the rest may go as well. That is a reason that the few and far between plants that are ready (or at least closer to being ready) for the year 2000 are considering isolation. That is not exactly an easy task. Also to consider: a customer who is serviced by a power transmission center rather than a power generation station could just be out of luck, even if his (far away) generation station is still pumping out power. This brings us to another point. Under current National law, a power generator capable of producing excess power must be connected (whether on or off-line) to the power grid. This includes windmills (!) and private companies power generation stations. Svejk (GL-15 applies: digiserve.com ;-)