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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (298)	4/3/1998 2:31:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 618

Earlier I had stated that US Electric Generation used basically old technology (due to the age of their plants), and therefore would expect to find fewer Y2K problems than other industries. Here is some data to back it up. The first column is the range of years in which the new generation capacity was added. The second column is Electric Utility Generation Addition The third column is Non-Utility Generation Addition (All numbers in GigaWatts) 1980-1988 --- 109 --- 17.4 1989-1995 --- 37 --- 37.0 Note that Non-Utility generation is typically made up of many smaller units. The Utility generation are typically the big baseload plants. A relatively large baseload plant is about 1 GigaWatt electric. I am looking for total eletrical generation numbers to complete the picture. This data is summarizd from a 3/98 Power Engineering article by John Zink. His data was from SFA Pacific which was from the EIA and EEI data. Fred Swirbul _____ From: Fred Swirbul Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000 Subject: US Electric Utility Age and Y2K Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 03:12:27 GMT