Patent ID: 8321804

Claim:
A method of assessing reliability of a power system of a utility company that has an energy management system with a control panel, comprising: obtaining at least one main overview display; selecting by an operator an area of the main overview display which it wishes to focus on by at least one of rubber-banding or lassoing the area; detecting and analyzing a contingency case violation using a reliability assessment module; displaying an alert when a new violation appears following execution of the contingency case violation analysis; generating dynamically a contingent tab in the control panel with a list of contingencies impacting monitored elements in violations within the selected area; cutting and pasting the area into a fly-out; drawing projection lines to the fly-out; and interacting with the fly-out to provide the operator with an awareness of a context of situations and information about a reference source of the fly-out; interacting with the fly-out to display violation markers on the one main overview display; and updating a monitored elements tab with a list of monitored elements.