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Electric distribution outage records for simulated AI review
An outage review can test whether a system distinguishes a temporary data gap from a service interruption.
NAICS 221122 · Electric Power Distribution
An outage review can test whether a system distinguishes a temporary data gap from a service interruption. EIA points to public sources for information on unplanned infrastructure outages. Scale lists energy and utilities in its enterprise data partnership categories. Neither source establishes that a specific utility’s information is available for licensing or safe to export. EIA outage data references · Scale Data Partnerships
Use an invented interruption timeline
Set up a fictional service area and create an event record with a monitoring alert, one missing reading, an independently confirmed service state and a later update. Include a benign data gap that looks like the beginning of an interruption. Label which evidence is authoritative and when a human operator would review the case. Test whether the model distinguishes uncertain evidence and routes the case. Keep operational actions outside the exercise.
Record the event time, duration, coverage and any assumptions behind a synthetic series. Keep the ground truth separate during evaluation.
Keep operational topology private
Use no real feeder maps, control screens, switching information, customer outage records, credentials or precise asset locations. Confirm authority with the utility and security team. Use only a detached simulation or an approved fabricated packet for first review.
Describe the two event types and what confirms each one. Describe a dataset
Original Fiund exercise
Separate missing monitoring data from confirmed service evidence
A detached, invented timeline tests retrospective status interpretation. It includes no customer outage history, feeder information or connection to operational systems.
| Record | Source | What it records |
|---|---|---|
| ALERT-A1 | Practice monitoring alert | Area alias A has a missing observation at 10:00. |
| CHECK-A2 | Independent status note | At 10:02, the authorized practice reviewer records service present for A during that interval. |
| ALERT-B1 | Second practice alert | Area alias B has a missing observation at 10:00. |
| CHECK-B2 | Independent status note | At 10:04, the reviewer records an interruption for B from 09:58 to 10:03. |
Question for the model
Which record supports an interruption, and can both missing observations be labeled outages?
Show the reference answer and checks
CHECK-B2 independently records B's interruption and its interval. ALERT-B1 alone would not establish it. For A, the missing observation and CHECK-A2's stated service evidence must remain distinct; the supplied record does not support labeling the data gap itself an outage. Report what each source establishes without inferring a cause or an operational response.
- Converting every absent monitoring sample into a service interruption.
- Using B's independently confirmed event as ground truth for A.
- Extending a reviewed status beyond the interval it names.
Fields to preserve
- Area alias
- Match independent evidence to the correct synthetic case.
- Observation and event time
- Keep a missing sample separate from an interruption interval.
- Evidence role
- Distinguish an alert from the supplied independent status record.
Test another case
Omit CHECK-A2 in a new case. The answer should leave A's service state unresolved rather than infer either normal service or an outage.
Use fabricated records or an authorized detached simulation. Exclude real maps, switching information, customers, credentials and precise asset locations. No control action is requested.
Discuss a contribution
Describe the sources you control, the task they could support and what has already been checked. Use the existing-data assessment for an archive or the collection brief for a new recording project. The contributor agreement defines Fiund’s licensing authority and compensation. A guide or fictional exercise does not establish an accepted collection or a sale.