{"schemaVersion":"report-figure-v1","report":{"slug":"gb-demand-connection-queue-2026","title":"Two Data Centre Figures for One Queue, and What Ofgem Leaves Unstated","url":"https://solaranalytica.com/gb-demand-connection-queue-2026","datePublished":"2026-08-23","lastReviewed":"2026-10-21"},"figure":{"id":"gb-demand-queue-scale","title":"Great Britain's demand connection queue, the undated data centre figure and peak demand","unit":"GW","provenance":{"dataSource":"Ofgem, Curate: Demand Connections Reform, 29 July 2026, executive summary and paragraphs 2.6 and 2.7","dataType":"Published regulatory analysis","scope":"Great Britain transmission and distribution demand queue","statistic":"Contracted offers, and the system peak Ofgem states for scale","interval":"November 2024 and June 2025; data centre reading undated; peak demand 2025 (2025/26 in chapter 2)"},"caption":"Contracted offers at two dated readings, Ofgem's undated data centre figure drawn apart from both, and the system peak Ofgem states for scale.","series":[{"label":"Queue, Nov 2024","value":41},{"label":"Queue, Jun 2025","value":125},{"label":"Data centres (undated)","value":73},{"label":"GB peak demand, 2025","value":45}]},"csv":"https://solaranalytica.com/reports/gb-demand-connection-queue-2026/figures/gb-demand-queue-scale/data.csv","publicationState":"fixed-edition","boundary":"The figure remains bound to the report edition. A newer upstream release creates a review obligation and never rewrites these rows automatically."}