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Developer briefings

Eight sourced briefings for the people who build, buy, and finance energy projects: how a point of interconnection is chosen, what a schedule really looks like in each market, what transfers when a project is acquired, what the public companies say in their filings, and where the demand is coming from.

Each briefing names its sources inline. Updated as the underlying filings and rules change; the date is on each page.

Before the site

  1. How to determine the point of interconnection

    Public data, voltage class, operator studies, reading the queue, the gen-tie, and the ERCOT rules that attach once a POI is chosen.

  2. Development schedule by market: Gantt with leads and lags

    Month-by-month charts for ERCOT, SPP, MISO, PJM, CAISO, NYISO, ISO-NE and FERC-default utilities: operator steps, imposed waits, and the work that must start early.

The deal

  1. Acquiring development-stage projects

    Stages and milestone payments, what transfers in ERCOT, the diligence list, public records for verification, and deal-market data.

  2. Diligence Reader

    Read a CIA, ALTA, title commitment, lease or interconnection study in your browser with your own API key: constraints, dates, costs, open items, what to commission next.

  3. Public companies in ERCOT: what their filings say

    Fleet MW, Texas projects, large-load requests, queue counts, capital plans and risk-factor language, quoted from SEC filings. No prices, no ratings.

The market

  1. Data centers needing power

    Large-load queues and forecasts, the Texas SB 6 rules, co-location and PPA deal structures, named campuses, and the risks regulators flag.

  2. Choosing suppliers: the public evidence

    Independent reliability scorecards, published market rankings, and the tax-credit, trade and safety rules that decide what a project can buy.

  3. Energy project development jobs: pay, growth, hiring

    Pay, projected growth, and hiring difficulty for development, engineering, construction, and field roles, from BLS, DOE, and IREC data.

Also for developers

  1. How to use Parcel & Grid

    Nine steps in the order a developer works a site, with what each gives you and its limit.

  2. The ERCOT Queue Brief

    A monthly, sourced digest of what changed in the ERCOT interconnection queue.

  3. Outage history by county and ZIP

    Minutes without power per year, outages per year, and outage length for every U.S. county and ZIP, 2013–2025, from EIA Form 861.

  4. Texas utility-scale approvals, stage by stage

    The twelve approvals from site control to energization, plus four the site can trigger.

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