To Bonnie or Rick:

This was posted to the TBY2k site. Thought you might be interested in checking it out. He has posted twice. I would e-mail him but I am not computer literate enough to utilize the material if I received it. I suspect he does not have a password to your site.

Ok folks, this will probably be my last post to this forum. I have these files. They are publicly available from the NERC site, but hard to locate. There are 12 Excel spreadsheets. One is a summary of all utility companies, the rest are summaries by interconnect. Zipped, the Excel files are 1.5 meg. I also have a batch of Powerpoint presentations, the largest is 740K. Good luck finding any of this on NERC's site, but they are there. This data is what the NERC is using to prepare it's testimony before the Senate on August 5. I invite you to e-mail me and I will send them to you. Look them over, then using actual data from the utilities, tell us what is likely to happen to the grid. I will give this one last try - then I'm outta here.

-- Tim Castleman (aztc@earthlink.net), July 30, 1999 Answers

-- Anonymous, July 30, 1999

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Nadine, while many of the NERC files do not have hot links from the NERC Y2K site, they are available if anyone has the time to search through other routes. As Mr. Castleman noted, it's unlikely the average person would run across many of these because you have to be specifically looking for them. You also need both an Adobe Acrobat reader and Powerpoint to be able to read all of them.

I have posted this link to the NERC documents at other times when referencing various reports, but here it is again:

ftp://ftp.nerc.com/pub/sys/all_updl/docs/y2k/

Anyone can access other NERC docs (Board of Trustees meetings, teleconference minutes, etc.)which are not necessarily Y2K related, but can have Y2K information, by going to different level directories from the above. It should be noted that all access to these files is logged. The main difficulty is having the time to both access and carefully read all the information which is available! If anyone wants to gain a good overview of how the electric industry has dealt with the Y2K problem, I would recommend reading all the files beginning with those of at least a year ago. I believe it would be quite eye-opening for many. (An example can be found in my recent post titled, "Why assessing electric industry statements is so difficult..")

I applaud Tim Castleman for compiling some of this information, and certainly it would be worth e-mailing him for anyone who would like to save themselves access time or who wasn't already aware of all the info that is out there. At least that way you could print off his info as a lump sum and read it when away from the computer.

-- Anonymous, July 30, 1999