{
  "schema_version": 1,
  "generated_on": "2026-09-27",
  "title": "Strict discovery research packets",
  "status": "READY_FOR_RESEARCH",
  "admission_rule": "Explicit source-level load classification is required before load-discovery work.",
  "candidates": [
    {
      "case_id": "NEXT-AESO-P3066",
      "queue_id": "P3066",
      "rto": "AESO",
      "project_name": "Leedale Data Load",
      "capacity_mw": 1864,
      "public_load_classification": "Load",
      "geographic_context": "Clearwater County / Caroline planning area",
      "current_identity_gap": "Developer/owner not exposed in retained public queue surface",
      "current_physical_gap": "No defensible facility coordinate retained",
      "novelty_boundary": "A secondary public tracker calls this a proposed data center; that is corroboration, not proof of developer, operator, or compute.",
      "source_ladder": [
        {
          "kind": "aeso_primary",
          "url": "https://www.aeso.ca/assets/Uploads/project-reporting/September-2026-Project-List.xlsx",
          "status": "PUBLISHER_SNAPSHOT"
        },
        {
          "kind": "queue_mirror",
          "url": "https://www.interconnection.fyi/project/aeso-p3066",
          "status": "CURRENT_PUBLIC_RECORD"
        },
        {
          "kind": "facility_tracker",
          "url": "https://www.datacenter.fyi/public-record/p3066-leedale-data-load-764c0be1",
          "status": "SECONDARY_CORROBORATION"
        },
        {
          "kind": "infrastructure_context",
          "url": "https://gridlens.ca/substation/378S",
          "status": "PLANNING_CONTEXT"
        }
      ],
      "next_gates": [
        "entity_resolution",
        "physical_targeting",
        "public_record_corroboration",
        "transformer_or_service_search",
        "adjudication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "case_id": "NEXT-AESO-P3198",
      "queue_id": "P3198",
      "rto": "AESO",
      "project_name": "Lynx Data Load",
      "capacity_mw": 1800,
      "public_load_classification": "Load",
      "geographic_context": "Strathcona County / Fort Saskatchewan planning context",
      "current_identity_gap": "Developer/owner not exposed in retained public queue surface",
      "current_physical_gap": "No defensible facility coordinate retained",
      "novelty_boundary": "Fort Saskatchewan planning/substation records are context only; similarly named GLDC projects must not be treated as P3198 without direct linkage.",
      "source_ladder": [
        {
          "kind": "aeso_primary",
          "url": "https://www.aeso.ca/assets/Uploads/project-reporting/September-2026-Project-List.xlsx",
          "status": "PUBLISHER_SNAPSHOT"
        },
        {
          "kind": "queue_mirror",
          "url": "https://www.interconnection.fyi/project/aeso-p3198",
          "status": "CURRENT_PUBLIC_RECORD"
        },
        {
          "kind": "planning_context",
          "url": "https://gridlens.ca/substation/439S",
          "status": "PLANNING_CONTEXT"
        },
        {
          "kind": "planning_context",
          "url": "https://gridlens.ca/substation/233S",
          "status": "PLANNING_CONTEXT"
        }
      ],
      "next_gates": [
        "entity_resolution",
        "physical_targeting",
        "public_record_corroboration",
        "transformer_or_service_search",
        "adjudication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "case_id": "NEXT-AESO-P3108",
      "queue_id": "P3108",
      "rto": "AESO",
      "project_name": "Wild Rose Power Hub Load",
      "capacity_mw": 1300,
      "public_load_classification": "Load",
      "geographic_context": "Calgary planning area",
      "current_identity_gap": "Developer resolved to Chinook Development LP by Alberta/municipal public planning records; the AESO queue surface itself does not publish the developer field.",
      "current_physical_gap": "Official Rocky View County planning point and three legal quarter sections established; site-specific processed remote-sensing observation is the remaining physical gate.",
      "novelty_boundary": "The project title does not name a data center, operator, or developer; the investigation must establish end use and physical identity from independent records rather than from the name alone.",
      "source_ladder": [
        {
          "kind": "queue_mirror",
          "status": "CURRENT_PUBLIC_RECORD"
        },
        {
          "kind": "aeso_primary",
          "url": "https://www.aeso.ca/assets/Uploads/project-reporting/September-2026-Project-List.xlsx",
          "status": "PUBLISHER_SNAPSHOT"
        },
        {
          "kind": "municipal_planning",
          "status": "SEARCH_REQUIRED"
        },
        {
          "kind": "land_permitting",
          "status": "SEARCH_REQUIRED"
        },
        {
          "kind": "utility_regulator",
          "status": "SEARCH_REQUIRED"
        }
      ],
      "next_gates": [
        "physical_observation",
        "transformer_or_service_search",
        "operational_status",
        "compute_end_use"
      ],
      "public_project_status": "PROPOSED",
      "evidence_refs": [
        "https://www.rockyview.ca/build-plan-and-develop/planning/planning-projects-underway/wild-rose-power-hub-area-structure-plan",
        "https://majorprojects.alberta.ca/details/Wild-Rose-Power-Hub/12207",
        "https://www.interconnection.fyi/project/aeso-p3108"
      ]
    },
    {
      "case_id": "CONTROL-AESO-P2958",
      "queue_id": "P2958",
      "rto": "AESO",
      "project_name": "Hydrogen Canada MPC Load",
      "capacity_mw": 320,
      "public_load_classification": "Load",
      "geographic_context": "Fort Saskatchewan planning context",
      "current_identity_gap": "Developer/owner not exposed in retained public queue surface",
      "current_physical_gap": "No defensible facility coordinate retained",
      "novelty_boundary": "The project is explicitly labeled Industrial Load in the retained AESO record; it is a control case, not an assertion of hidden compute.",
      "source_ladder": [
        {
          "kind": "aeso_primary",
          "url": "https://www.aeso.ca/assets/Uploads/project-reporting/September-2026-Project-List.xlsx",
          "status": "PUBLISHER_SNAPSHOT"
        },
        {
          "kind": "queue_mirror",
          "status": "CURRENT_PUBLIC_RECORD"
        },
        {
          "kind": "municipal_planning",
          "status": "SEARCH_REQUIRED"
        },
        {
          "kind": "utility_regulator",
          "status": "SEARCH_REQUIRED"
        }
      ],
      "next_gates": [
        "entity_resolution",
        "physical_targeting",
        "public_record_corroboration",
        "transformer_or_service_search",
        "adjudication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "case_id": "CONTROL-AESO-P2614",
      "queue_id": "P2614",
      "rto": "AESO",
      "project_name": "Dow Fort Sask. Load",
      "capacity_mw": 231,
      "public_load_classification": "Industrial Load",
      "geographic_context": "Fort Saskatchewan planning context",
      "current_identity_gap": "Developer/owner not exposed in retained public queue surface",
      "current_physical_gap": "No defensible facility coordinate retained",
      "novelty_boundary": "The retained AESO record labels this as Industrial Load; the control tests entity and physical resolution without treating a large load as AI by default.",
      "source_ladder": [
        {
          "kind": "aeso_primary",
          "url": "https://www.aeso.ca/assets/Uploads/project-reporting/September-2026-Project-List.xlsx",
          "status": "PUBLISHER_SNAPSHOT"
        },
        {
          "kind": "queue_mirror",
          "status": "CURRENT_PUBLIC_RECORD"
        },
        {
          "kind": "municipal_planning",
          "status": "SEARCH_REQUIRED"
        },
        {
          "kind": "utility_regulator",
          "status": "SEARCH_REQUIRED"
        }
      ],
      "next_gates": [
        "entity_resolution",
        "physical_targeting",
        "public_record_corroboration",
        "transformer_or_service_search",
        "adjudication"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "selection_note": "Five-case queue: three primary ambiguity targets plus two explicit industrial-load controls. Controls are included to test classification discipline and avoid treating unresolved large loads as compute by default."
}