Patent ID: 7233843

Claim:
A real-time performance monitoring system for monitoring an electric power grid, comprising: a monitor computer for monitoring at least one of reliability metrics, power grid operations metrics, generation metrics, transmission metrics, suppliers metrics, grid infrastructure security metrics or markets metrics over a plurality of control areas of the electric power grid operated on a plurality of different platforms by a plurality of different business systems or companies; a database for storing the metrics being monitored by the monitor computer; and at least one display computer in at least one of said plurality of control areas of the electric power grid, the at least one display computer having a monitor for displaying a visualization of the metrics being monitored by the monitor computer, said at least one display computer in one of said plurality of control areas being adapted to enable an operator located in and responsible for monitoring the one of said plurality of control areas to monitor one or more of said plurality of control areas that are different from the control area in which the operator is located.