Y2K Power Status re Ontario, Canada

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Some time ago, Ontario Hydro split into 3 companies, so I have been reviewing the Y2K information at their three sites this morning.... Ontario Power Generation (Power Plants Including Nuclear)

Status Report

Status Report 3 (~700k pdf file) - Sounds good, but I do wonder if the certification that they throw around all over is self-certification. Ontario Hydro Services (Transmission Lines & Equipment)

Y2K FAQ

Some interesting points about their lab and field tests. Independent Electricity Market Operator (Bulk Sales To Industry, Municipalities)

Click on Y2K Info and then the FAQ

Little information not covered above. While mostly relevant to people living up here, some of the references to NERC, etc will also be of interest to US residents. Their comments about the extent of the Transmission and Equipment problems found and the live testing of a transformer station serving 180,000 homes are encouraging in that they indicate real work being done, and not just puffery. I would feel better if Ontario Hydro hadn't dropped the ball so badly during the great ice-storm. If anyone has any newer information, please share it. ( FWIW, I see Y2K as a 6 or a 7 overall )

-- John (jh@NotReal.ca), October 30, 1999

Answers

The titles for the links slipped up to the end of the paragraph above them ... Sorry about that.

-- John (jh@NotReal.ca), October 30, 1999.

Thanks for this, John, and, welcome (in case you haven't posted before.) I for one would appreciate your updating Ontario/Quebec's situation as you learn about it--lots of friends in Ontario.

Have you read about TransAlta's recent bulk food purchases for employees in Alberta? And, are you aware of Rick Cowles' site? www.Energyland.org His links include energy companies throughout NA.

You say, "While mostly relevant to people living up here, some of the references to NERC, etc will also be of interest to US residents." Not so. The three grids run north/south throughout North America; if something happens south of the border to take out a part of a grid, it can affect us up here. And vice versa. A few years back when the power went down in California it went down in Calgary, too, as a direct result of their power outage.

Natural gas supplies have a somewhat similar "supply and demand" connection.

Got your wood burning stove?

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), October 30, 1999.


Thanks Rachel, I will check out Rick Cowles' site. We are retired and live in a rural area of Eastern Ontario with our own well and septic tank system. We went through the ice storm of 1998 and were without power for 8 days. After that ordeal, we have prepared for Y2K with a new wood stove, a generator, food supply and some cash.

I have posted before on our lessons from our ice storm experience on the Preparations thread. Here are the links again, if anyone missed them and is interested....

Y2K Lessons From The Trenches

Y2K - A Lighting Suggestion From The Trenches



-- John (jh@NotReal.ca), October 30, 1999.


John

I just read your posts in the prep form. Great information, lots of common sense stuff.

Hope you keep it up! There is precious little information on how to live with cold. You are indeed fortunate to have a wood stove. Having been up in the Canadian (sub) arctic for 6 years, love affairs with woodstoves are now natural.

-- Brian (imager@home.com), October 30, 1999.


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