Gentlemen,

I have been asked to provide an update concerning Year 2000 (Y2k) system readiness at Greeneville Light & Power System. Progress in several areas of concern is as follows:

TVA: We have received an update from TVA stating that they are on track to meet their goal of being operationally ready in June, 1999. They have achieved closure on 89% of all mission critical items being tracked in the agency wide program.

Hydro Operations has completed 100 percent of its mission-critical work at 30 hydro plants.

Eighteen fossil units have been converted to Year 2000 date and 14 units continue to generate poser in the Year 2000 mode.

Seven transmission substations and switchyards have been converted and are transmitting power in the Year 2000 mode. All microprocessor relays are now Year 2000 ready.

Nuclear plants are ahead of schedule on completing all mission-critical work by the end of June. An NRC review of Watts Bar Nuclear Plant found no significant Year 2000 issues. TVA will submit a written response to the NRC confirming that its nuclear plants are Year 2000 ready by July1, 1999.

For updates see the TVA web site at www.tva.gov.

GLPS SCADA: The last update to the Board indicated that we had tested our SCADA system for Year 2000 functionality. Advanced Control Systems will be providing the latest HP operating system soon. After installation of this update, we will conduct another test of the SCADA system including substation devices. A determination will then be made as to when we will start operations in advanced Y2k mode.

GLPS Telephone PBX: Roy Byrd of Sprint was given the target date of June 15, 1999 for software upgrades for the ROLM PBX and Toshiba voice mail systems. Ronnie Waddell is coordinating this update.

Meter Reading Equipment: April 20, 1999 was the date that installation and training of the MVRS software for the meter reading hand-helds was started. Work with CSA concerning file transfers is still in progress. Ronnie Waddell is coordinating this project.

CSA’s Customer Information and Billing System: The OS/390 operating system and all of its components are Year 2000 compatible. The CICS transaction processing software is also Year 2000 compatible. All CSA application software has been updated and the testing of each program as an individual entity has been completed. Full system testing is now complete for several systems and is underway on the remaining systems. Final application system testing is scheduled to be completed by the end of June, 1999. For updates, check the CSA web site at www.csa1.com.

GLPS Personal Computers and Servers: Most personal computers have been tested. Those left include 3 laptop machines and a small number of infrequently used, non-critical machines. Progress is being made concerning the update of the Novell file server. This machine is functionally compliant with the remainder of Y2K patches relating to date displays. The testing is being done on a new Linux server which may replace the Windows NT server which is currently not Y2k ready. After testing, either the machine will be replaced with the Linux server or the Windows NT software will be purchased which will be Y2k ready.

Computer programs with potential Y2k abnormalities that have been developed in-house at GLPS have been identified and a schedule for re-writing those programs has been initiated. These include the vehicle maintenance program, weather program, and trouble call tracking program.

Documentation concerning the GLPS Y2k program (including this memo) is now posted on our web site at www.glps.net. Links to TVA, TVPPA and others are also included on our web site.

If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to call 636-6214.

Allen Tweed
Senior Engineer
Greeneville Light & Power System

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