Energy management system that provides a real time assessment of a potentially compromising situation that can affect a utility company

• US 20090031241A1
• Filed: 06/13/2008
• Published: 01/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd. (Alstom SA)
• Original Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd. (Alstom SA)
• Inventors: Jones, Lawrence Edmund, Hackett, Michael, Castelli, Gennaro, Brand, Heath Daniel, Shung, HulChu Su, Howard, Michael Quinn
• Granted Patent: US 9,367,935 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/772
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/40 Testing power supplies testing photovoltaic devices H02S50/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06315 Needs-based resource requirements planning or analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 23/00 Alarms responsive to unspecified undesired or abnormal conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/377 for mixing or overlaying two or more graphic patterns G09G5/02, G09G5/397 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2203/20 Simulating, e g planning, reliability check, modelling or computer assisted design [CAD]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/00 Circuit arrangements for ac mains or ac distribution networks
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/0012 Contingency detection
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/008 involving trading of energy or energy transmission rights
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/00 Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/50 Systems or methods supporting the power network operation or management, involving a certain degree of interaction with the load-side end user applications
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/20 : Information technology specific aspects, e.g. CAD, simulation, modelling, system security
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 50/10 : Energy trading, including energy flowing from end-user application to grid

Abstract

An energy management system has a control center at a utility company and logic resources that provide a real time assessment of a potentially compromising situation that can effect the utility company. At least one situational dashboard panel is provided. The logic resources enable users to dynamically create their own dashboards from large overviews, regional schematic displays and station one-line displays that assist in assessing the potentially compromising situation of the utility company.

Claims

1. An energy management system, comprising:

a control center at a utility company;

logic resources that provide a real time assessment of a potentially compromising situation that can effect the utility company; and

at least one situational dashboard panel, wherein the logic resources enable users to dynamically create their own dashboards from large overviews, regional schematic displays and station one-line displays that assist in assessing the potentially compromising situation of the utility company.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one situation dashboard panel is created from geographical overviews, regional schematic displays and station one-line displays.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the dashboards are saveable and reuseable.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the potentially compromising situation is selected from at least:

system violations of type branch, low voltage, high voltage or delta voltage.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the dashboards can be built on-the-fly by combining subset of at least one of, different displays, tabulars, one-lines, regional schematic and geographic overviews.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein a user can use and select areas of existing displays by rubber-banding and placing the rubber-banding into a dashboard.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the dashboard is created with rubber-banding portions from original displays, dragging and dropping into the dashboard.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the portions of the displays that are dropped onto a dashboard display continue to be updated in real-time with live data.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein creation of the dashboard enables a user to select only the information that is relevant to the situation.