Proprietary Data for energy

After four posts on vocabulary, market forces, colocation strategy, and due diligence, this final post in the series answers the question every developer actually wants a straight answer to: which states currently have the most real, available grid capacity for a large data center, solar farm, wind project, or battery storage site. The ranking below is built directly from LandGate's own platform data, not survey responses or self-reported figures. The colocation ranking The t

The 5-step process for finding and screening community solar sites with LandGate looks like this: sizing up the market and competition, filtering parcels by location and grid proximity, screening each site for physical and legal constraints, drilling into grid-level detail to catch fatal upgrade costs, and finally running the economics to make a clear go/no-go decision.

Whether you're evaluating a parcel for a data center campus or a utility-scale solar, wind, or battery storage project, the underlying question is the same: is this land actually powered, or is it just zoned. Parts 1 through 3 of this series covered the vocabulary and the market forces behind that question. This post turns it into a practical, step-by-step checklist you can run against any real site. Step 1: Confirm substation distance and available capacity Identify the near