"TVA Tennessee Valley Authority Y2K Testing"

Interesting. -- Diane

Initial news story source http://headlines.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/Tech/Year_2000_Problem/ Yahoo News -- Full Coverage:Science and Technology:Year 2000 Problem

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NBC Local News http://www.msnbc.com/local/WOWL/30455.asp TVA conducts Y2k tests by TVA Florence, AL -- WOWL 15 TV

TVAs Gallatin Fossil Plant and Chickamauga Dam rang in New Year 2000 several months early to get an idea how things will go when the new millennium rolls around for real.

Both sites completed Year 2000 unit-startup tests last month, and both continue to run using 21st-century dates. The goal of the tests was to ensure that all equipment with date-related functions will operate properly when the date 01/01/00 arrives. Startup conditions were chosen as the best test of plant equipment. The reason is that changes occur in all plant systems at startup, offering a good look at how equipment will operate during those changes. At Gallatin, the coal-handling system also was included in the test. Before startup, all clocks at each site were set to let them naturally progress to Jan. 1, 2000. The leap-year date of Feb. 29, 2000, also was tested. The consensus of many in the utility industry, including the Electric Power Research Institute, is that testing these two dates yields an accurate indication of equipments Y2k compliance. All four power-generating units at Chickamauga and units 1-3 at Gallatin were successfully tested. (Due to a planned outage, Gallatins unit 4 will be tested at a later date.) The clocks at both sites will be left to run in the year 2000 until early January 1999. The Y2K team that conducted the test included representatives from Fossil & Hydro Engineering, F&H Operations, Information Services, Telecommunications and Transmission/Power Supply.

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TVA: Yesterday, today and tomorrow http://www.msnbc.com/local/WOWL/27401.asp

President Roosevelt (FDR) envisioned TVA as a totally different kind of agency.

On May 18, 1933 congress backed the president and the Tennessee Valley Authority was born. It was to be a corporation clothed with the power of government but possessed of the flexibility and initiative of a private enterprise, according to FDR. Today TVAs power-service area covers 80,000 square miles in seven southeastern states. It is the nations largest producer of electricity, and its power system is self-financed. TVA provides power to large industries and 159 power distributors that serve about 8 million consumers.

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Tennessee Valley Authority web-site: http://www.tva.gov/

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), December 07, 1998

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Great. Good. Fantastic. Okay. Yay. Add other superlatives as required.

(No sense ignoring good news.)

Was this before or after they finished remediation and off-line testing?

-- Robert A. Cook, P.E. (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), December 11, 1998.