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Still, deregulation has pushed utilities to cut labor and other costs, and those that are deepest in negotiations with regulators haven't been as focused on preventing problems related to the millennium bug, Daley said.

``The utilities most distracted by deregulation aren't doing enough to identify and prevent problems,'' Daley said. ``There are a number of instances where utilities didn't go deep enough into their systems -- they accepted vendors' words that parts of a system were compliant.''

-- lisa (lisa@work.now), December 02, 1999

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Lisa, At this point, we'll see. This is five months later and recently Rick Cowles said he didn't expect pervasive outages. With a situation so changeable, while it's interesting to see this material, I don't know that we can say it represents the current situation. Thanks for posting though

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), December 02, 1999.

Right, Mara, just trying to piece together the recent Cherry/CEO stuff.

Kernel of truth and all that.......

-- lisa (lisa@work.now), December 02, 1999.

Daley/COO/Tava appears well positioned to play the role of Mr CEO.

Locally, my electrical provider - Cinergy has identifed three concerns for rollover;

1. Embedded systems.

2. Large industrial customers that take themself offline and want to switch back on according to the customer's quick schedule rather than a thorough restart procedure suggested by Cinergy.

3. Other power companies and transmission systems - Cinergy is a net exporter of power.

-- Bill P (porterwn@one.net), December 02, 1999.