Grid-forecasting program — the hidden dependency

Context

A grid-forecasting program. Outage prediction reports green on its model metrics, but a SCADA/sensor (OT) data dependency is degrading — the model looks fine while its inputs quietly fail, making its real health red.

The decision

The steering call is on the dependency nobody watches: the outage workstream is green on model accuracy but red on an OT-data feed, and the fix is upstream, not in the model.

What most miss

Everyone watches the model's accuracy; nobody watches the OT-data pipeline feeding it. The hidden red is a dependency, and it surfaces as a model problem when it isn't one.

Stakes

An outage model running on stale OT data mis-predicts exactly when the grid is stressed — a reliability and safety exposure.