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Portland, Ore., Electric Utility Declares Itself Y2K-Prepared.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 1999 by Woodward, Steve
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 9 -- It wasn't exactly a magnum of New Year's champagne.
It was, to be prosaic, a plastic ballpoint pen with the slogan "PGE: putting the OK in Y2K."
Peggy Fowler, president of Portland General Electric, used the pen last week to sign off on the utility's nearly 3-year effort to eradicate the Year 2000 computer bug from its 550 most important computerized systems. All but two of those systems can process dates in the year 2000, and both remaining systems will be finished by fall.
Fowler's signature signaled that PGE, like its Oregon counterpart, Pacific Power, had reached its June 30 goal in the race to keep the lights on in the year 2000.
PGE and PacifiCorp, which operates Pacific...
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