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Q(®ars. in iyy», Allegheny ►3Power organized a Y2K '.♦Corporate Project Team that used a five-step program of inventory, assessment, remediation, testing and contingency plans.
“We are involved with testing now,” Staggers said.
By the end of the year, the company will have spent $20 million and employed 500 people to work on the Y2K problem.
The company plans on stockpiling coal, since 88 percent of the generating stations burn coal. Half of those use analog equipment with no embedded processors, and none of the generators are nuclear, he added.
“I feel pretty good, but the big thing is the unknown. The system has a built in redundancy, so if one thing fails, something else takes over,” he said.
Extra operating personnel would be duty on Dec. 31, Staggers said. “No one in our company is going to any New Year’s Eve parties.”
Rappahannock Electric Cooperative serves the remainder of Rappahannock County and was 92 percent compliant, said Harvey Hodges, the power company’s senior Y2K Project Manager.
Hodges is actually an employee of Intellisource, an information and technology company employed by the power company.
He said the company has been working on Y2K since 1984 and has every confidence the power will be uninterrupted. He added that he had not bought a home generator for
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