PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- After years of planning and the
hard work of hundreds of employees, the Bonneville Power Administration
entered the year 2000 with the lights on and absent Y2K problems. When the
clocks rolled over to January 1, 2000, BPA's power and transmission functions
performed well, as expected.
Conscious of its important responsibility to the region, BPA started its
Y2K preparation early. BPA began its work in 1995 checking its systems not
only to determine that they read 01/01/2000 correctly, but for other key Y2K
dates as well.
BPA set March 31, 1999, as its target for being Y2K ready and BPA met that
target. BPA's hardware (including embedded chips), software, applications and
integrated systems had been assessed and determined to be functional into and
through the year 2000.
Judi Johansen, BPA CEO/Administrator, monitoring the rollover at BPA's
control center, announced, "As BPA's system rolled over to the new year
without incident, we're confident that the power system will continue to
provide safe and reliable power to the citizens of the Northwest. We are
grateful to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, and
Energy Northwest for their extraordinary performance."
SOURCE Bonneville Power Administration
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CONTACT:
Perry Gruber of BPA, 503-230-5131
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