Patent ID: 8606686

Claim:
A system comprising: a processor; a display unit; and a non-transitory data storage device that includes instructions when executed by the processor comprising: a data gathering unit to gather power data and locational marginal pricing (LMP) data from a plurality of remote power data sources and to convert the power data and the LMP data into a common data format; a data analysis unit to correlate real-time power data with the LMP data for identifying causal factors; and a database to store at least the gathered real-time power data and the LMP data, the converted power data and the LMP data, and the correlated data of causal factors, wherein the display unit displays at least one of the converted power data and the LMP data, and the correlated data of causal factors, and wherein the data gathering unit gathers the real-time power data and the LMP data over a network to correlate the real-time power data.