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A Developer's Guide to LandGate's Nationwide Solar Pro Forma Data
For solar developers, investors, and lenders, knowing that a project will generate well and clear an economic screen is necessary but not sufficient. Before capital moves, someone has to see the full financial statement: what the project costs to build, what it earns and spends every year, how it is financed, and whether the cash it throws off actually covers its debt. That is what LandGate's Solar Pro Forma provides. Where an economic report distills a project into a single
Jul 29 min read


A Developer's Guide to LandGate's Nationwide Solar Due Diligence Report Data
For solar developers, investors, and asset managers, a project lives or dies at the intersection of three questions: can it connect to the grid, what will it earn where it settles, and how do those economics compare to real projects nearby. A strong resource and a clean parcel mean little if the interconnection triggers millions in network upgrades, if the project's pricing node sits well below the trading hub, or if comparable projects are signing offtake at prices this one
Jul 29 min read


Reading the Map Before It's Drawn: How to Evaluate Sites Against Proposed Transmission Projects
Proposed transmission lines are electric transmission projects that have been announced, planned, or are under development but have not yet been constructed or energized.
Jul 16 min read


A Developer's Guide to LandGate's Nationwide Solar 8760 Report & Long Term Generation Data
For solar developers, investors, and asset managers, confirming that a site has strong sun and clean, buildable land is only the starting point. The harder physical question is how the project will actually perform: exactly how much electricity it will generate, when that generation lands across the hours of a day and the seasons of a year, and how steadily that output will decline as the equipment ages. Those questions sit at the heart of LandGate's Solar 8760 & Long Term Ge
Jun 258 min read


Wood Mackenzie acquires LandGate to deliver connected intelligence for the new era of US power markets
Acquisition of 150 million parcel-level land intelligence dataset strengthens Wood Mackenzie’s leading market position and will drive faster, higher-confidence capital allocation decisions for power, renewables, and data center developers. LONDON/HOUSTON/SINGAPORE, 24 June 2026 – Wood Mackenzie, a global leader in data, analytics and insights for the energy and natural resources industry, today announced the acquisition of LandGate. The deal combines Wood Mackenzie’s power ma
Jun 243 min read


A Developer’s Guide to LandGate's Solar Economic Report Data
For solar developers, investors, and asset managers, confirming that a site has strong irradiance and clean land characteristics is only the beginning. The harder question is whether the project will actually pencil out: what it costs to build, what it earns across decades of operation, and what all of that is worth in today’s dollars. That question sits at the heart of LandGate’s Solar Economic Report, which models the full economic profile of a solar asset or portfolio, fro
Jun 1710 min read


A Developer’s Guide to LandGate's National Environmental Report Data
Environmental risk is one of the most common sources of project delay in energy and data center development. Federally protected species, wetlands, contaminated land, and soil conditions can each add months or years to a permitting timeline, and identifying them late in the process is expensive. LandGate's Environmental Report consolidates these risk factors into a single, structured document that developers can use to screen sites and prioritize further investigation before
Jun 97 min read


A Developer's Guide to LandGate Nationwide Asset Report Data
Energy developers and institutional investors rarely evaluate a single parcel in isolation. More often, the question is how a collection of parcels performs as a portfolio: which assets carry the most value, which are worth prioritizing for development, and which energy use cases are the best fit for each piece of land. LandGate's Asset Report data is built for exactly that kind of multi-parcel analysis, delivering parcel-by-parcel valuations across land, solar, wind, and car
Jun 46 min read


A Developer's Guide to LandGate Nationwide Property Data
When evaluating land for a utility-scale solar project, a battery storage facility, or a data center campus, the due diligence process can be slow, expensive, and fragmented. LandGate's Property Report consolidates the critical signals (land value, topography, solar resource, and electrical infrastructure) into a single document that lets developers quickly screen sites before committing to deeper feasibility work. This post walks through each section of a LandGate Property R
May 295 min read


A Structural Analysis of Why BESS Site Selection Fails… and How to Fix It
The Market Imperative and the Due Diligence Gap The battery energy storage system (BESS) market has entered a period of rapid, capacity-constrained growth. Grid operators across the United States are managing an increasingly complex balancing act: integrating high volumes of intermittent renewable generation while simultaneously meeting peak demand events that stress aging transmission and distribution infrastructure. Storage assets are no longer optional additions to the gri
May 286 min read


The "PWA Penalty" Wave: Why Renewable Developers are Seeing Surprise IRS Notices
In the rush to capitalize on the 5x credit multiplier offered by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), many renewable energy developers and tax equity investors are now hitting a regulatory wall. As projects from the 2023–2024 vintage move through the tax cycle, the IRS has begun issuing significant penalties and late fees related to Prevailing Wage and Apprenticeship (PWA) non-compliance. What was intended to be a massive tax saving is, for some, turning into a costly administr
May 52 min read


How Geography Defines Success Under the OBBB
In the early 2020s, renewable energy development was a game of "if". Today, in the wake of the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) of 2025, it has become a game of "when." The IRA (inflation Reduction Act) was once the bedrock of the industry. The IRA is now six years old and significantly leaner. For energy developers, the OBBB has replaced broad incentives with a high-velocity survival race. With the July 4, 2026, "Begin Construction" deadline looming, the difference between a pr
Apr 273 min read


The Hunt for Powered Land: Real Estate is Rebranding for AI in 2026
A quiet yet powerful shift is currently reshaping the real estate market. What was once dominated by traditional residential, commercial, and industrial developments is being fundamentally transformed by the infrastructure needs of the AI revolution. We have officially moved past the "Data Center" era and entered the age of the AI Superfactory: large-scale facilities intended solely to cater to the unimaginable rates of artificial intelligence computing needs. In 2026, land i
Apr 223 min read


The Data Center Power Paradox: Natural Gas Bridging the Gap
The global race for artificial intelligence supremacy and the expansion of cloud computing have triggered a transformation in industrial energy consumption. As digital infrastructure scales, the sector is confronting a stark reality: data center power needs are massive and growing at an exponential rate. While the tech industry has been a primary driver of renewable energy adoption, the sheer scale of modern computing requirements is testing the limits of current power gene
Apr 134 min read


Behind-the-Meter Report: 2026 Outlook
For decades, data center site selection has been a binary choice: finding the perfect site entailed a reasonably sized parcel of land, fiber connectivity, and a utility that has the capacity needed. However, in more recent years, we are seeing an increasing difficulty in power procurement. In comparison to previous years, where utility growth almost felt stagnant, the data center market has caused a boom where more growth is seen year over year than in previous decades. This
Apr 82 min read


Agentic Workflows & Data: The Digital Gold of a New Era
In the current Artificial Intelligence gold rush, many enterprises are realizing a hard truth: public data is a commodity that often leads to hallucinations and inaccuracies. Feeding an AI agent general web-scraped data yields inaccurate results. For the energy and real estate sectors, high-stakes decision-making requires sophisticated, high-fidelity datasets. The future of work is defined by agentic workflows . While these workflows may integrate various platforms, their ult
Apr 25 min read


Comparing Electric Planning Areas: The Grid-First Approach to Site Selection
The North American grid is divided into three major synchronous interconnections: Eastern Interconnection, Western Interconnection, and ERCOT (Texas). Within those, many RTO/ISO regions serve as large planning jurisdictions (CAISO, PJM, MISO, ISO-NE, SPP, etc.).
Feb 236 min read


Behind the Meter vs. The Grid: Comparison for Data Center Developers
For hyperscale developers, the bottleneck is no longer land or capital- it is the time-to-power. With interconnection queues in major RTOs like PJM and ERCOT now extending four to seven years and grid cost inflation eroding margins, the Behind-the-Meter (BTM) model has moved from a niche alternative to a strategic necessity.
Feb 237 min read


LandGate’s New Battery Storage Analysis Tool: Instant Intelligence for BESS Site Selection
The Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) market is experiencing significant growth. LandGate has launched its Battery Storage Analysis tool, which is designed to provide automated, engineering-grade Battery Storage Due Diligence Reports instantly.
Feb 164 min read


AI-Driven Site Selection for Data Centers and Energy: LandGate’s AI Data Agent
The future of infrastructure is being built by developers who can query the grid as easily as they query a search engine. By unifying proprietary data with natural language access and secure architecture, LandGate provides the high-fidelity intelligence layer required for precise capital deployment.
Feb 104 min read
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