Patent ID: 8706454

Claim:
A method, comprising the steps of: evaluating, in at least one computing device, a plurality of contingencies to generate a plurality of contingency results, where the evaluation is based at least in part upon a case associated with a transmission network, where at least one of the plurality of contingency results includes an overload condition in the transmission network; sorting, in the at least one computing device, the plurality of contingency results based upon corresponding overload-contingency pairs; and determining, in the at least one computing device, at least one potential remediation solution to the overload condition based at least in part upon the sorted plurality of overload-contingency pairs, where determining the at least one potential remediation solution comprises: determining at least one previous contingency result that corresponds to the contingency result including the overload condition based upon the corresponding overload-contingency pair; and designating a remediation solution associated with the at least one previous contingency result as the potential remediation solution to the overload condition.