Solar Site Selection Software Built To Find More Viable Land In Minutes
Simplify Your Solar Site Selection With AO Prospect’s Easy-To-Use GIS Platform
Quickly Complete Solar Site Selection
Moving into a new market used to take several weeks while finding all of the right data and rebuilding your siting approach. But with AO Prospect, you can move into a new market the same day and have a consistent process for siting no matter where you are. Whether you need to turnaround an RFP next week or are moving into a new market for the long-term, AO Prospect can help.
Simplify Parcel Search
Automate your land search based on known substations and transmission lines, or use our AO Capacity Maps to uncover the best points of interconnection for your Solar project.
Search Criteria
Search based on distance from the grid and parcel minimum and/or maximum acreage.
Parcel Data
Industry-leading parcel data coverage including standardized ownership records to simplify mailers.
What Our Customers Are Saying
“Everyone here is very impressed with the Anderson tool. We all watched Chris get set up in a matter of days and be ready to mail letters to potential landowners. He is out this week meeting all of the landowners he made contact with and we even have signed LOI’s already in the land bank!”
Derrick Worden - Senior Land Manager, The AES Corporation
“Anderson Optimization has improved our team’s siting process by providing our Development Team with a tool that empowers us to autonomously pursue new sites for development faster and more efficiently than ever before. This access is critical for developers who seek out geographical data when siting new projects, while allowing our GIS team to allocate their time towards more technical tasks.”
Jamie Mears - Senior Associate, Development, Orsted
“Anderson Optimization has helped our company bring our site acquisition efforts in-house and scale up our impact. The tools speeds up our work and saves us money.”
Tyson Buerkle - Director of Site Acquisition, BlueWave
Automate Constraint Analysis
Stop wasting time evaluating parcel quality and buildability with traditional GIS programs. AO Prospect helps users automatically create constraint maps and calculate buildable acreage in just a few clicks.
Integrated Data
AO Prospect offers key layers, premium data sets, and easily integrates your proprietary data so you have everything you need in one place.
Sliver Removal
Avoid tracts that are smaller than your minimum buildable acreage requirements.
Vibrant Maps
Visualize your buildable area with clearly marked constraint maps
Speed Up Your Solar Site Selection
Built For Collaboration
Teams work best when barriers are removed. AO Prospect allows your teams to communicate more efficiently internally, and with other departments.
Manage Projects Efficiently
Track project status and stages, rate parcels, leave notes, and save templates for an easy and consistent workflow across your team.
Instant Updates
AO Prospect updates on the cloud in real time, allowing changes made in a project to be reflected across your teams instantly.
Import/Export
Import your existing GIS data, and export KMLs, Shapefiles, and Excel CSVs for seamless downstream collaboration, as well as PDF’s for Mailers.
How does AO Prospect improve your business?
Easy to use
Anyone - not just GIS developers - can easily perform complex environmental analysis
Reduce soft costs
Own the process from end-to-end and forego the need to hire costly GIS analysts, external land agents, or new developers
Fill your pipeline
A simple, repeatable site selection process makes it easy to maintain a steady flow of active projects
Identify owner info
Quickly identify landowners with the highest quality land, so that you don’t waste time working on infeasible sites
Expedite projects
Users typically increase site selection efficiency by 2-4 times allowing for faster landowner outreach
Download The 2024 Solar Site Selection Guide
