Methods for creating dynamic lists from selected areas of a power system of a utility company

A method of injecting or removing a unit of reactive power of an alternating current (VAR) from a power system of a utility company, the utility company having an energy management system with a control panel and logic resources, comprising:

• using the logic resources to provide a real time situation awareness of a potential failure relative to the utility company that can effect one or more conditions prior to an occurrence of a failure in the power system, the situation awareness being an auditory or visual comprehension in the power system;
• accessing one or more source displays of the selected one or more geographic areas;
• identifying station or line elements located in an operator selected one or more geographic areas to obtain information relative to station or line elements at the one or more geographic areas;
• creating one or more lists of operator defined information relative to the station or line elements that are savable for future use for at least a portion of the station or line elements;
• obtaining information relative to the station or line elements in selected one or more geographic areas;
• in response to determining an amount of VAR reserves available, generating an overlaid geographic display by overlaying a geographic display with a superimposed VAR reserve;
• using the overlayed geographic display to identify potential low or high voltage instances in the selected one or more geographic areas;
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• injecting or removing a VAR in or from the selected one or more geographic areas from the power system.