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

  • US 9,367,935 B2
  • Filed: 06/13/2008
  • Issued: 06/14/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An energy management system, comprising:

  • a processor; and

    a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory having stored therein computer-executable instructions, comprising;

    a control center component comprising one or more geographical displays of a power system;

    at least one logic resource component configured to provide, in the one or more geographical displays, real time situational awareness information of a potential energy management failure selected from at least one of, energy distribution, energy generation, energy transmission and energy market systems, the at least one logic resource configured to re-use at least a portion of data and configurations from pre-existing software applications already in place in the control center; and

    a user interface component configured to enable an operator to perform a lasso or rubber band input on a selected geographic area of a geographical display of the one or more geographical displays and drop the selected geographic area into a situational dashboard panel, wherein in response to dropping the selected geographic area into the situational dashboard panel, the user interface creates a fly-out window of the selected geographic area with projection lines drawn from the selected geographic area of the geographical display to the fly-out window.

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