AO Prospect introduces new updates that focus on improving renewable energy project management. These enhancements offer simplified project initiation, access to updated Solar Weighted Average LMP and Interconnection Queue Data, and new U.S. and Germany-specific layers. Read the article and learn how to use the new updates in your projects.

Explore the latest updates and features in AO Prospect designed to streamline your solar development projects in both the US and Europe. From enhanced LMP data and updated capacity information to advanced parcel filtering in Germany and landowner identification in England and Wales, our new tools are here to save you time and money. Discover how these powerful enhancements can optimize your site selection process and drive your renewable energy projects forward.

Dive into AO Prospect's newest update and streamline your renewable energy projects with enhanced features. View live interconnection queue data, assess climate risks with comprehensive analytics, and utilize shared templates for consistent Buildable Area Analysis. Plus, check out our updated capacity data and newly added U.S. nationwide layers. All designed to save you time and money while optimizing your site selection process.

The new release features streamlined project tabs and innovative distance metrics for parcels, power lines, and substations.

Discover the latest enhancements to Anderson Optimization's platform, designed to streamline your solar site selection process. With extended parcel search capabilities, new allocated cost insights in AO Capacity, and improved map tool accessibility, we're making it easier than ever to identify optimal sites and manage project costs efficiently. Dive into our newest features and see how they can elevate your next solar project.

Discover the future of project efficiency with Anderson Optimization's latest update. A sleek new sidebar brings essential GIS and grid mapping tools directly to your fingertips, simplifying workflows and supercharging your site development capabilities. Start transforming your strategies today with our sophisticated, yet user-friendly new features.

We pride ourselves on listening to your feedback and we have a number of feature improvements – large and small – based on customer feedback. Thank you to everyone who suggested these updates and we hope these will continue to help optimize your land siting process in Anderson Optimization.

If your company is seeking to invest in energy communities eligible for tax credits under the Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Credit (Section 48C(e)), we highly recommend exploring the latest map layer available in AO Prospect. This map layer allows you to efficiently identify and target these specific areas for your solar developments.

Want to reduce the number of landowners for a given site? We’ve helped automate this through our updated parcel search!

When you search for parcels, you can now choose to include contiguous parcels with the same owner whose total acreage meets your minimum acreage size in the search results. This way, if you need 300 contiguous acres, it will not only pull in 300-acre parcels and larger, but it would also pull in scenarios like: three, contiguous, 100-acre parcels from the same landowner that are within the target search area.

We know that as you continue to grow and scale, being able to answer these questions and see your full portfolio of projects on one map is critical. We’ve launched a new set of tools to make it simple to view and analyze your full portfolio.

We know that the direction a slope faces may impact the extent to which you can site a solar project on that terrain.

To help you better understand how much buildable acreage you actually have, we’ve added in a new setting where you can adjust the slope tolerance for different slope aspects to get a more nuanced and usable buildable acreage calculation for your projects in AO.

Many clients have reached out about integrating the latest Energy Communities layers that were provided in yesterday’s announcement from the Treasury about the latest guidelines for the Energy Community Tax Credit Bonus.

We have integrated two new layers into Anderson Optimization directly from the latest guidance. They are in the layer catalog under the Energy Communities (IRA) section; Coal Closures, and MSAs/non-MSAs with more than 0.17% Fossil Fuel Employment

We’ve updated our hosting capacity maps to include the polygon select and bulk create functionality to help speed up adding grid infrastructure to projects without all the manual work.

As you may have heard, the U.S. Treasury Department, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Internal Revenue Service issued guidance on Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) provisions to incentivize investment in underserved communities and hard-hit coal communities. We know renewable developers across the U.S. are trying to make sense of these ever-evolving guidelines and how to best target the different “Energy Communities” defined in the various programs set forth under the IRA. What follows is a breakdown of what we know so far about two newly established programs, how you can leverage Anderson Optimization and resources to keep you in the loop on this ever-evolving legislation.