The North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) today provided the U.S. Department of Energy the first comprehensive report on the Year 2000 readiness of the industry's electricity supply and delivery systems for operation in the year 2000. A copy of the report, "Preparing the Electricity Systems of North America for the Transition to the Year 2000" and the NERC press release announcing availability of the report (88 pages) are available on the NERC web site at: http://www.nerc.com/~y2k/y2k.html

NERC also published a 43 page inventory of equipment which are used in many electric utilities.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 1998