Patent ID: 8467983

Claim:
A method for detecting a conflict between a power supply guarantee request (PSGR) and an outage request (OR) in a power grid, comprising: receiving a first outage device set including OR related devices and a power supply guarantee device set including PSGR related devices; using geographic information about devices in the power grid to determine a second outage device set, the second outage device set including devices in the first outage device set and accompanying outage devices having atleast one geographic relationship, identified in the geographic information, with devices in the first outage device set; using topology information about the power grid to determine a power grid outage scale that includes all of the devices in the second outage device set; and detecting, using a computer, for each device in the power supply guarantee device set, whether the device is included in the power grid outage scale, to determine if there is a conflict between the PSGR and the OR.