They finally name names. Haven't seen this posted yet.

http://news.excite.com/news/r/991119/21/y2k-utilities

-- Lucy (taxslave@webtv.net), November 19, 1999

Answers

It looks like the only substantial one is in Az. Hopefully most of the others are ok.

-- r white (cw5410@netscape.net), November 19, 1999.

Now I see why those businesses in Kansas were freaking out about showing the movie on Sunday.

4 out of the 13 are in Kansas:

--Seward Electric Department (Seward, Kansas)

--Radium Light Department (Radium, Kansas)

--Isabel City Electric Department (Isabel, Kansas)

--City of Herndon (Herndon, Kansas)

"There's no place like home, there's no place like home..." :-)

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), November 20, 1999.

Hawk: How about "Everything's up to date in Kansas City..."

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), November 20, 1999.

I can not get it ,it says forbidden....Do you have the correct link?

-- me (y2kme1@hotmail.com), November 20, 1999.

[For educating porpoises only:]

Thirteen U.S. utilities may not be ready for Y2K

Updated 9:43 PM ET November 19, 1999

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thirteen local electrical utilities around the United States have failed to report their readiness status for computer problems that could switch off the lights at the end of the year, the Energy Department said Friday.

But the department said in a statement that bulk and local utilities serving 99.99 percent of the population were ready for the end of the year.

"Today we are releasing the names of 13 municipal utilities, serving 1,937 customers, that still have not reported on their Y2K readiness status," Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said. "By releasing names, we're hoping to apply pressure."

Y2K is shorthand for the Year 2000 computer bug, in which older computer programs that use only two digits to represent the year may fail to recognize 2000 or mistake it for 1900.

Every sector of the U.S. economy has launched a major drive to correct the problem, which could potentially cause breakdowns in all areas of modern life controlled by computers, from traffic signals to electrical power.

Richardson said his department had been working flat out "from Maine to Moscow" to prepare for Y2K. "The Energy Department is aggressively working in partnership with industry to assure Americans that their lights will stay on past midnight on New Year's Eve," he said.

The utilities that have failed to report their status are:

--Electrical District No. 8, Maricopa County (Phoenix, Ariz.)

--Tuolumne County Public Power Agency (Sonora, Calif.)

--Declo Municipal Electric Department (Declo, Idaho)

--Albion Light & Water Plant (Albion, Idaho)

--Seward Electric Department (Seward, Kansas)

--Radium Light Department (Radium, Kansas)

--Isabel City Electric Department (Isabel, Kansas)

--City of Herndon (Herndon, Kansas)

--Town of Whalan (Whalan, Minn.)

--Mansfield Municipal Light System (Mansfield, Mo.)

--Elk Creek Light & Water Department (Elk Creek, Neb.)

--Holbrook Municipal Light Plant (Holbrook, Neb.)

--Custar Board of Public Affairs (Custar, Ohio)

-- counting (down@the.days), November 20, 1999.

(note: since hotmail is fried, who cares)

Funny, FPL, our state monopoly is not listed? Once again, I ask those in the alleged know: Why, if they are ready were the top executives having FPL employees install generators at their estates earlier this year???? 10 months, no answer...hmmmm, I'll bet I know why!

Got candles?
John 9.5

-- John 9.5 Galt (jgaltfla@whatthehell.com), November 20, 1999.

1,937 customers? Is that right? All those utliity companies and only that few amount of people? JO

-- Jo Stang (tj4261@geneseo.net), November 20, 1999.

>that didn't report

So they didn't report to some stupid survey. At least they didn't lie!

Why does the media continue to reward liars? :-(

-- cgbg jr (cgbgjr@webtv.net), November 20, 1999.

Can someone verify the # of utilities poled for y2k compliance? If I recall correctly, we have a several thousand Power plants and this compliancy pole has about 300 or so replying to the Y2K ready status? Thanks and good luck.

-- Rich (Rluck@aol.com), November 20, 1999.

This info. simply follows the party line of the big are OK and the small are not. Didn't Senator Bennett say that 75% of ALL electric utilities don't report their Y2K status. Or they don't file regular reports. Spin, spin, and more spin....

-- PJC (paulchri@msn.com), November 20, 1999.

Maybe Laura aka ladylogic can answer since she seems to be wired into the Millennium Group (oldest Y2K group on the Planet) and a fixture in The Valley of the Sun...Where the hell is Maricopa County Electrical District No. 8???

I am only familiar with Arizona Public Service (operator of the largest Nuke in the World, and therefore not able to get away with stonewalling), and the Salt River Project, the first ever Reclamation project, a public utility with close ties to the FEDS and therefore an unlikely stonewall candidate.

How would I find out what this Elec. District No. 8 is???

-- K. Stevens (kstevens@ It's ALL going away in January.com), November 20, 1999.