does this count?

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dgman....You said.."So far, Y2k has had NO impact on customer outages." Several northeast states ordered oil barges offshore for the rollover. This has had an impact on supplies and contributed to the northeast's problems. Does this count?...nancy

-- Anonymous, January 27, 2000

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Nancy,

The heating oil and kerosene are in short supply, not bunkers for power plants. If that is what was in the barges, then there was no impact and they got the oil at cheaper prices but paid extra for storage, so it would be a sort of break even.

-- Anonymous, January 27, 2000


Nancy,

Read my posts on Marcella's last article and that should answer most of your questions.

-- Anonymous, January 27, 2000


Hi Nancy, I don't believe we've met.

What I meant by "impact on customer outages," I am talking about any Y2k-caused power outage. During the rollover period, and as far as I know up to the present, there has not been a single power outage caused by a Y2k problem.

Some of the things we in the utility biz were also concerned about were "Y2k related" kinds of problems. For example, sabotage, or if enough large customers disconnected from the grid all at once. These could have resulted in outages as well, but fortunately, customers were not impacted by this. The scenario you describe is, if true, a secondary kind of item. And I think that is certainly more Y2k- related than these stories of oil refinery explosions. Do you have a url for the situation you described?

-- Anonymous, January 27, 2000


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