Hoff -

Thanks for the other thread where you list Electric Utilities announcing readiness.

Do you know of a site/document that lists, in order, the largest 100 providers of electricity in N America (along with their share of the "market")? The reason I ask is that it would be interesting to compare that list to the list of companies on your previous thread.

Quite a few of the posters on that thread brought up the "well, 25 - 50 - 100 you listed is only a small percentage of the overall total". My hunch is that the companies you listed are the biggies and that they provide a large chuck of the continent's electricity.

By way of example, if Ontario Hydro declares it is Y2K-ready while the electric company in Upper Rubber Boot, Minnesota, says it isn't ready yet, one feels much more optimistic for the status of the grid as a whole than if the opposite were true. (Not much comfort for the denizens of Upper Rubber Boot, I know [g])

Johnny - who hopes Ontario Hydro is ready 'cuz warm beer sucks.

-- Johnny Canuck (j_canuck@hotmail.com), July 02, 1999

Answers

This link lists the generation by company:

http:// www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/epmt56.txt

But it doesn't do the ranking. It may be somewhere here:

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/page/at_a_glance/gen _tabs.html

-- Hoffmeister (hoff_meister@my-deja.com), July 02, 1999.

Hoff

Thanks for the speedy response. I'll check into those sites over the weekend and see if I can compile some sort of ranling table. Maybe I'll have something posted by Monday.

Regards

Johnny

-- Johnny Canuck (j_canuck@hotmail.com), July 02, 1999.

John

You are worried about beer being cold in Ontario during the rollover??

I present a worse senerio, frozen beer. You can't even drink that.

Have you hear about the status of the brewry corps? They had better be compliant!!! Can you imagine a national tragity worse than a Canadian without beer??

Now that is a doomer view.

-- Brian (imager@home.com), July 02, 1999.

Brian -

Yeah, frozen beer sucks, too. I remember one New Years we celebrated at a remote central Ontario cottage that had no electricity. We left the two-four outside to chill, and forgot that it was -25C. Two hours later we had beer-sicles.

Back in the early 80s there was a beer strike in Ontario. Almost brought the place to its knees. We were reduced to importing [shudder] Pabst and Meisterbrau (we nicknamed it Monsterbrew).

Oh yeah, this is a thread on electricity.......never mind.

-- Johnny Canuck (j_canuck@hotmail.com), July 02, 1999.

24 hours in a day - 24 beers in a case - Coincidence?

-- CD (not@here.com), July 02, 1999.