Anderson Optimization provides end-to-end, early-stage land siting and energy system modeling services through two primary GIS software products:

• AO Prospect: A platform designed to optimize the siting and development of renewable energy projects and storage. The platform enables developers to identify and evaluate optimal locations by leveraging geospatial data, analytics, and optimization algorithms and assessing factors like land suitability, proximity to transmission lines, and environmental constraints.

  • Capacity Analysis: Integrated within AO Prospect, AO Capacity evaluates grid available capacity and interconnection feasibility to ensure the grid can handle the project's power output. Thus, it provides insights into transmission constraints, geo-located capacity, and interconnection costs, allowing for more accurate project planning. By incorporating predictive energy market pricing data, increases the likelihood of long-term financial success.
  • LMP Data: Prospect also offers nodal LMP information inclusive of solar and peak averages, 4 hour min/max data, basis, and negative hour information that is fully geo-located allowing developers to ensure their projects are in areas of financial viability.

• Distribution Grid Mapping: Integrated within AO Prospect, AO Distribution Grid provides distribution network mapping to allow developers easy access to guide their site selection efforts and eliminate manual mapping efforts.

Anderson Optimization also offers a mix of advanced data paired with novel workflow automation allowing the developers to have a platform to manage their entire development process.

• AO Capacity Data Add-On: Accelerates solar project planning with grid capacity data, helping identify substations and transmission lines. This way, developers can assess project feasibility and financial viability with automatic updates and heat maps, simplify site selection, speed up timelines, and reduce costs.
• Distribution Grid Data Add-On: Provides information about the distribution grid topology by using ML and image recognition to scan satellite imagery and map the grid.
• Flood Data Add-On: Integrates flood risk analysis with enhanced data, with access to new layers for site planning that considers future flood risk.
• Grid Data Add-On: Provides detailed substation and transmission line locations, along with information not publicly available.
• Phone Number Data Add-On: Facilitates communication by providing access to phone numbers of landowners in potential project areas.

Software as a Service company. Their pricing is flexible based upon the features, territory, and users within a company's license.

Quickly move into new markets

Traditionally, moving into a new market can take several weeks while you find all of the right data and rebuild your siting approach. Anderson Optimization has nationwide coverage, so you can move into a new market the same day and have a consistent process for siting no matter where you are.

All the data for renewable energy siting in one place

Eliminate the need to collect and consolidate disparate GIS data sources. All key layers needed for effective renewable siting come pre-loaded and ready to use: grid infrastructure, parcels and GIS layers (including topo, wetlands, flood, tree cover, bedrock, etc.)

Automate time-consuming environmental GIS analysis to quickly calculate buildability

Finding potential parcels and evaluating parcel quality and buildability can be tedious and time-consuming with traditional GIS programs. AO Prospect helps users automatically create constraint maps and calculate buildable acreage in just a few clicks.

• Quickly identify potential parcels based on substation or line radius and minimum acreage.
• Calculate buildable acreage and create hazard constraint maps.
• Sort and filter parcels based on buildable area to hone in on highest value sites.

Easily view and export landowner contact information for LOIs

Once you have a shortlist of high quality parcels, access the land owner information.

Seamlessly collaborate across teams in the cloud

Projects automatically save in real-time so work is accessible from anywhere. Export land owner data, KML constraint maps, and PDF reports for seamless downstream design and landowner outreach activity.

Automated distribution grid siting

Automatically find sites that intersect 3-phase lines and are within a nearby radius of a substation.

Expedite and simplify early-stage land siting

Identify ideal parcels for renewable development and automate complex GIS analysis to find high-quality sites in just minutes.

Use automated constraint analysis and filters to identify the most productive development sites available. Evaluate land size, radius to points of interconnection, and narrow down buildable acreage using the most detailed hazard analysis on the market

Instant Injection Studies

Identify interconnections that have ample injection capacity required for your project without waiting for Injection Studies.

Nationwide distribution grid mapping

Find distribution (< 69 kV) substations and lines anywhere in the United States without the need for manual line tracing. Anderson Optimization is the the only company to offer distribution grid data across the entire nation.

Whether it is for planning a renewable energy project or commercial real estate development, understanding where the interconnected web of transmission and distribution networks lie is crucial in order to ensure your projects are nearby for successful interconnection.