I found these two messages in a parallel "private" board on greenspun "Electric Utilities and Y2K". Is this old news on this board or not? If not any comments?

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Electric utilities 60% complete, rest to finish June 2000, did YOU see this TV news clip?

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I friend of mine called me about a 2 minute TV news clip she saw on Monday, Dec. 6th on the evening news. She said it was on one of the three network stations, CBS, NBC, or ABC (station unknown).

The person being interviewed (identity unkwown) made a statement saying that the electric utilities industry was only 60% complete with its Y2K remediation, and that the rest will finish between now and June 2000. The reporter doing the interview did not ask any questions about this extreme statement.

DID ANYONE SEE THIS TV NEWS CLIP? I did not see it, and I could not find any articles in the newspaper to confirm this information. I am trying to follow up on this statement, so if anyone here saw this, please let me know.

Thanks, Gail

-- Gail H. Byars (gailhbyars@softwaresmith.com), December 08, 1999

Answers

I did not see this, but I was informed three weeks ago by the person who set up Joel Willemssen's (of the US GAO) recent lecture in Rockford, IL, that the FCC is extending the telecommunications industry Y2k compliance due date to June 30, 2000, because the telecommunications companies are currently having extensive problems with data from non-compliant systems corrupting the compliant systems.

Telecommunications industry is, of course, critical to the electric power industry. Feel free to email me if anyone has further questions.

-- BrianL (bliebenstein@camcar.textron.com), December 08, 1999.

Didn't see it Gail - the figures sound wildly out of whack, though. Perhaps it was an interview from earlier this year or late last year. Hopefully someone else saw it and will be able to provide a reference / report.

-- Rick Cowles (rick@csamerica.com), December 08, 1999.

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This reports on data from September. Two-thirds of the operators responded to the FCC. Of those, only 80% were done. The charts, which did not copy here, are worth looking at. There is no mention I can find of embedded systems, which we can pretty well assume have not been remediated, since there is no evidence to the contrary.

http://www.fcc.gov/year2000/ib-supp.html

FCC Y2K Communications Sector Report: Satellite Supplement (October 1999)

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In June 1999, in an effort to obtain updates on the status of the satellite industry's Y2K readiness, the FCC re-surveyed the respondents to the December 1998 survey. Results of the December 1998 survey were reported in the FCC's Y2K Communications Sector Report released in March 1999. The survey response rate was moderately satisfactory. The Commission contacted 18 operators who had responded to the first survey for updated information. We received 12 responses. As the respondent companies constitute a large percentage of the satellite services industry, their responses provide a viable Y2K industry analysis. The second survey data indicates that overall the completion dates for some companies slipped slightly, but there is no significant variance from the first data. The August and September dates in this report were followed up and confirmed with phone calls due to the time lapse between survey date and the publish date.

Figure 1- Average Percent Complete

[Table shows 80% complete - worth looking at]

Of the responding companies, over 70 percent indicated they have implemented a formal Y2K plan. As represented in figure 1, the respondents with formal Y2K processes have on average completed almost 100 percent of the inventory stage and nearly 95 percent of the assessment stage for network elements, support systems, and auxiliary systems. Inventory stages for most companies were completed by January 1999 and assessment stages were, on average, finished by March 1999. Approximately 90 percent of the remediation and testing for network elements have been accomplished, and average completion date for all respondents was June 1999. (See figure 2.)

Responses for the integrated testing phase, as in the first survey, varied. Responses ranged from 20 to 100 percent completion. About half of the companies have reached 100 percent completion in the testing phase. Yet, a roughly equal number have only attained readiness levels of 75 percent or below.

Survey results indicated rollout phases for companies' network elements, support systems, and auxiliary systems had the lowest preparation levels. Rollout phases for network elements only averaged 68 percent completion, with 100 percent completion by August 1999. Similarly, the average percentage completion for the rollout phase of support systems and auxiliary systems was only 78 percent and 81 percent respectively.

Figure 2- Average Completion Date

[Table didn't copy]

Responses to questions addressing probability of failure and risk showed over 90 percent completion in all areas. These included network elements, support systems, auxiliary systems, electric power, and suppliers. Companies expected finalization for network elements, support systems, auxiliary systems, and electric power by June 1999, and for suppliers by July 1999.

Questions regarding the preparation of contingency planning also received mixed responses. While 4 companies' responses indicated 100 percent completion, another 5 were between 25 to 85 percent complete, and 3 others failed to respond to the contingency questions. However, as seen in figure 3, the companies still average nearly 80 percent preparedness for all areas of the contingency planning phase. But, the contingency planning question had, on average, the latest date forecasted for completion on the entire survey. The contingency planning completion date for all areas (network elements, support systems, auxiliary systems, electric power and suppliers) was August 1999. (See figure 4.) Figure 3

Figure 4

As seen in figure 5, some of the companies responded that they would not be completed with network elements and support systems for the inventory, assessment, and remediation phases until October 1999. One respondent even predicted that they would not be complete in their rollout phase until December 1999. The average latest completion date for all respondents for all phases was September 1999. All but one of the respondents indicated that their latest completion date for all phases - inventory, assessment, and remediation phases - was September 1999.

Based on these results, the Commission is generally pleased to see that many satellite companies are prepared for the year 2000 transition. However, there is still concern for those companies whose responses indicated late completion dates and low percentages for certain phases and areas. The integration and rollout phases are prime examples. (See figure 5.) The Commission urges these companies to attain 100 percent completion in these phases by or before the dates predicted. Figure 5- Latest Completion Date

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-- F. Snyder Gokey (sgokey@vogellaw.com), December 08, 1999

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-- Interested Spectator (is@aol.com), December 08, 1999