Common Grounds consolidates everything a co-location decision needs — from geospatial and environmental records to financial information and infrastructure maps — into one resource. Click a card to see the datasets behind each layer of the Common Ground Index.
Active oil & gas lease parcels on both federal and state trust land, overlapping leases, rights-of-way, and well records — the acreage already disturbed and ready to put to work.
Elevation, slope, and land-cover layers define what is physically buildable; solar irradiance turns that footprint into a megawatt potential.
Nodal electricity prices, effective capacity value, and distance to transmission — the revenue side of a co-location project.
Protected habitat, grazing allotments, and land-use buffers that constrain or exclude development on a parcel — flagged before they become a surprise.
County-level zoning ordinances, setback and height rules, and approval pathways — distilled into a permitting score and surfaced through the Permitting Assistant. Co-location cuts down on the time and paperwork needed to meet regulations.
