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Every site, every deadline, every dollar that depends on a date.

One data model for solar developers, owners, EPCs and operators. Public data about land, grid and rules is built once and kept current. Your projects sit on top of it. Score every site, re-score the pipeline when the rules or the grid change, track the dates that carry money, and keep the evidence that goes with them.

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SOLAR MODEL / 10.26 SITE TO OPERATION

Two layers. Public reference data, and your projects on top.

Reference data

Land, grid and rules, built once and kept current

Transmission lines and substations, feeder hosting capacity over time, interconnection queues, wetlands, flood zones, protected land, habitat, soils, energy communities and program areas, zoning. Elevation, land cover, irradiance and aerial imagery. Wage determinations, credit rules and program rules as tables with effective dates. Zoning bylaws read by Aquifer AI, each value with its citation.

Your projects

Your pipeline, in your own account

Each project with its technology, size, mount, offtake, program and stage. Its interconnection requests, site control, permits and tax credits. Installed quantities by block and week. Every fact with the record, document page or person it came from and the date. Your data never goes into the shared reference layer.

Reference data underneath. Your pipeline on top.

The grid, the land, the programs and the rules are built once and kept current for everyone. Your projects stand on that layer in your own account, and nothing of yours goes into it. Underneath, the dates that carry money, each with the room left before it.

SOLAR MODEL TWO LAYERS SHARED REFERENCE YOUR ACCOUNT
The solar model: public reference layers underneath, your projects on top, and a timeline of the dates that carry money with the buffer before each REFERENCE DATA · SHARED, BUILT ONCE, KEPT CURRENT Transmission and substations Hosting capacity over time Interconnection queues Wetlands · flood · habitat Soils · elevation · irradiance Program areas · zoning · wage rules Rules as tables with effective dates. Bylaws read by Aquifer AI, each value with its citation. YOUR PROJECTS · IN YOUR OWN ACCOUNT Site candidate In interconnection study Permitting Under construction Each project with its technology, size, offtake, program and stage. Every fact with its source and date. YOUR DATA NEVER GOES INTO THE SHARED LAYER Interconnection request Site control: options and leases Permits, each with its clock Tax credit and its evidence Installed quantities by block ONE PROJECT, WHAT THE MODEL HOLDS THE DATES THAT CARRY MONEY · EACH WITH THE BUFFER BEFORE IT TODAY Option expiry site control Study deposit due interconnection Permit decision statutory clock Continuity deadline tax credit Placed in service by tax credit A shaded band is the room left before the date. It narrows as the date approaches, and an alert fires when a forecast crosses it.
Top, the two layers and what the model holds for one project. Bottom, the dates that carry money, with the buffer before each.

What the model holds for a solar project.

MDL.01 — Energy project

The project as a solar project

Technology, DC and AC size, storage, mount, offtake type, program and stage, linked to the site candidate it came from and to the project record every other app uses.

MDL.02 — Interconnection

Every request, from application to permission to operate

The utility or grid operator, the queue position, the point of interconnection, the study stage, study costs and deposits, the upgrade cost allocation, agreement dates, and the steps left to permission to operate.

MDL.03 — Site control

Options, leases and their deadlines

Parcels, the counterparty, the type of agreement, the term, option expiry, rent and escalators, and the obligations that come with them.

MDL.04 — Permits

Each permit, its clock and its conditions

The authority, the type, the status, application and decision dates, the statutory clock, hearings, conditions and expiry dates. The same object serves any project that needs a permit.

MDL.05 — Tax credit

The credit, its dates and its evidence

The credit claimed, the begin-construction method and date, the continuity deadline, the placed-in-service-by date, adders, prevailing-wage and apprenticeship status, and sourcing ratios, each with the evidence behind it.

MDL.06 — Project facts

Every value with its source and date

Each fact about a project, from each source that states it, with the record, document page and quote or the person it came from, the date, and whether it was accepted. Two sources that disagree are flagged, never merged.

MDL.07 — Installed quantities

What went in, by block and by week

Piles, racking, modules, wiring, inverters and energized blocks by location, activity or cost code and date, from the field or from forms, rolled up against the schedule of values.

MDL.08 — Scores

Scores that show their work

Hard exclusions with their reasons, weighted metrics, and an optional calibration to your own outcomes. Every score names the version of the definition it used, and re-scores only when something it depends on changes.

Three kinds of company, one model.

Developers and owners
Where should we build, and are our projects still on track?

Every potential site scored against land, grid and rules. The pipeline re-scored as rules and grid capacity change. Deadline and tax-credit tracking with the buffer left on each date. The interconnection record for every request.

EPCs
What will this site cost to build, how long will it take, and can we prove it?

A site report for any polygon for the bid. Weather-delay evidence from weather records against the schedule and the daily log. Prevailing-wage evidence from payroll against the county determination. Installed quantities rolled into the pay application. The handover package.

O&M firms and asset managers
What is happening across the fleet?

Weather alerts per site, technician routing, production against expected output, and an asset record per inverter and transformer with its warranty.

How it works, day to day.

Step 01 — Track

The dates that carry money, on one page

Placed-in-service-by and continuity dates, option and permit expiries, interconnection agreement deadlines and program deadlines for every project, each with its slip history and the buffer left, and an alert when a forecast crosses one.

Step 02 — Evidence

A tax-credit evidence binder per project

Begin-construction evidence, the continuity log, prevailing-wage and apprenticeship records against the wage determination, domestic content and sourcing records, assembled as the work happens and kept current for tax equity, credit buyers and auditors. Evidence, not tax advice.

Step 03 — Bill

Installed quantities to progress billing

Weekly quantities per block roll up against the schedule of values and drive the pay application and earned value, shown on the site model in Studio.

Step 04 — Interconnect

One record per interconnection request

One record per request with its study stage, costs, deposits and upgrade allocation, values read from the study PDFs with page citations, and public queue data and hosting-capacity maps on the same map.

Step 05 — Hand over

The handover package and the sale data room

As-built drawings, equipment and serial lists, commissioning tests, warranties and O&M documents for handover. The same package plus site control, permits, interconnection agreements and the tax-credit binder for a sale.

Where the solar model's data comes from.

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Every app reads the same model.

Common questions about the solar model.

FAQ.01

Does our data go into the shared reference layer?

No. Reference data is public and shared. Your projects, scores and outcomes live in your own account. Your scores are computed over the shared metrics but stored only in your account, so your data stays private.

FAQ.02

What happens when the rules change?

Rules are tables with effective dates, not code. A new wage determination, a changed threshold or a program block update changes the table, and only the metrics, scores and alerts that depend on it are recomputed.

FAQ.03

Can an EPC use it without being a developer?

Yes. The bid site report, weather-delay evidence, prevailing-wage evidence, installed quantities to billing and the handover package need none of the development objects. They work from your projects and the public reference data.

FAQ.04

Which parts are AI?

AI reads what is unstructured, such as zoning bylaws, study PDFs, leases and certificates, and each value it reads carries the document, the page and the quote it came from. The scoring is rules, weighted metrics and statistics you can inspect, with an optional calibration to your own outcomes.

Start with your pipeline, or one site.