Please help...

can anyone give links to specific statements that the IEEE has made, if any, about the power grid, utilites in general. I am not talking about the recent statements they made (6/9/99) about litigation.

Thanks very much,

Dina

-- Dina McCullough (DinaLM11@aol.com), July 11, 1999

Answers

Dina, here is the recent:

IEEE Letter to Congress

Ray

-- Ray (ray@totacc.com), July 11, 1999.

uh, Ray,

Dina said,

I am not talking about the recent statements they made (6/9/99) about litigation.

Those are the ones you provided.

-- reader (of@posts.xyz), July 11, 1999.

Study their website...

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

http://www.ieeeusa.org

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), July 11, 1999.

Dina, The IEEE Y2K page is at www.ieeeusa.org/Y2K/. Scroll down to the bottom to find the IEEE specific links...good luck though, IEEE has been pretty much non-existant in the Y2K efforts (other than the "legal" letter which reads straight out of 1997. Apparently they haven't even completed the y2k TAB working group draft linked at the bottom. Those involved in the electric utility industry Y2K efforts (including myself) have found NEI/NUSMG, EPRI, and NERC much more helpful and knowledgeable. You can find these organizations at: NEI Y2K Library
NERC Year 2000
EPRI's Year 2000 Program
I'm not sure what you can get to at the epriweb site without membership. Interestingly enough, I did just get my IEEE Spectrum magazine, and it has several articles on Y2K, and starts this way: "Checking up on Y2K" "Should you be stocking up on freeze-dried food, cashing out your bank accounts for gold Krugerrands, building a bomb shelter, and training carrier pigeons in anticipation of 1 January 2000? "No, no, no, and no. Critical systems- those for power, communications, financial, defense, air trafrfic control, and medical- are expected, for the most part, to function just fine when the millenial clock turns over." Various articles cover power, communications, banking, securites tradding, SS, defense safeguards, IRS, and the like. The articles are generally positive, but again, not very deep. Rather amusing that the articles are so contradictory to the IEEE Y2k hype legal letter the TAB put out. For the most part the articles quote other sources (including those I list above) as well as the Gartner group (the everchanging prognasticators ;). Hope this helps. Regards,

-- FactFinder (FactFinder@bzn.com), July 11, 1999.