I've read alot about electric Utilities and Y2K. What about the Y2K outcome of other utilities such as telephone services and natural gas distribution?

-- Anonymous, June 13, 1999

Answers

To the best of my knowledge, there is no counterpart to euy2k.com in the natural gas or telephone utilities. The best I can do is refer you to the Gas Research Institute (www.gri.org) and the Telco2000 forum (www.telcoforum2000.org).

While the potential Y2k impact on telco and natural gas services are very important, a discussion of either (except as they relate to the Y2k readiness of the electric industry) is off-topic for this forum.

-- Anonymous, June 13, 1999

Rob-

Connecticut DPUC released the first (as far as I know) independent audit of a state's regulated utilities last week.

It's a bit turgid, but after a couple of readings, I found it a valuable overview. Interestingly, the audit berated ALL of the utilities for not talking with each other.

While the results will obviously differ from state to state, the problems faced and methodologies used may be representative so you may find it useful.

Discussion and link:

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000vvN

BTW, Rick or Bonnie, and further thoughts on the results in this audit? It seemed to me that non-nuke electric was somewhat better off that gas or water (they scared me), but none of them have any margin of error. Nuclear seems to have a surprising amount of work remaining.

And last I heard, CT is 42% nuclear...

Regards

-- Anonymous, June 14, 1999