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

The most established data center market in the country has agreed to tax the industry's power consumption for the first time. The deal is capped and temporary, but the signal it sends to developers, investors, and lenders is anything but. What the Virginia data center tax deal does After a months-long budget standoff that nearly triggered Virginia's first government shutdown, state House and Senate Democrats reached an agreement that imposes a new tax on data center electrici

The passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) signed into law July 2025 officially transitions the industry from the old "OZ 1.0" model into a permanent, structurally revamped framework known as Opportunity Zones 2.0 (OZ 2.0). This represents a shift from a one-time, expiring tax incentive into a permanent fixture of the federal tax code.

For battery storage developers, investors, and asset managers, the questions that decide a project are different from those that decide a solar farm. A battery does not generate energy; it earns by moving energy through time, charging when prices are low and discharging when they are high, and by providing capacity and grid services. That makes storage economics a function of two things above all: whether the site can actually connect to the grid, and whether the local market

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