Patent Document ID: 10139844
Application ID: 14747217
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for reducing a probability of large-scale failures in a transmission network, the system comprising: one or more processors and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having executable instructions encoded thereon such that when executed, the one or more processors perform operations of: receiving input data regarding tripped or damaged transmission lines in a transmission network following a cascading failure, wherein a circuit breaker having a tripping threshold is connected with each transmission line; identifying a subset of transmission lines connected with circuit breakers to be modified; randomly selecting at least one unbroken transmission line, wherein the subset of transmission lines comprises all tripped or damaged transmission lines plus the at least one unbroken transmission line; specifying a capacity threshold value for each transmission line in the subset of transmission lines to alter long-term dynamics of the transmission network; following the cascading failure, suppressing power-law distributed cascading failures by causing the circuit breaker to be electronically reset or causing the tripping threshold of the circuit breaker to be altered, wherein a distribution of any future cascading failure is sub-critical, such that the greater a size of any future cascading failure, the less it is to occur; and performing a cascading failure simulation of the transmission network.