If the power grid in your area loses its billing system should it just shut down?

What I don’t get is why they couldn’t gather the data manually to keep things running and sorted it out after the fact. They didn’t have any DR planning for something like this? Station people with clipboards and cameras at all meters. Measure the inputs and outputs as they occur. It seems there was just no real impetus to act responsibly here.

Who do you hire to do that?

How quickly can you train them?

Where do they send the collected information?

How is the collected info processed and aggregated?

How much money is lost doing the above versus just shutting down?

I think their DR was fine. It is the HA that was not.

$5mil from net revenue of $400 mil is less than 2% of profits, and it has been operating for 80 years.

Honestly, I think the environmental damage the pipeline has caused is much worse.

That's expensive. You have to have someone do all that paerwork, the paperwork has to exist (printing and doc management), and there needs to be a hard copy of the business agreement on a per customer basis.

I mean, I'm kinda old timey, so ot"s not infeasible from my point of view; but in today's hyper-optimized, bottom-line over-fault-tolerance world, I don't see that happen all that much.

Heck, I have trouble getting a straight answer out of the youngin's to "What is a filing system?"