How Asset Developers Can Browse Changes to the Grid

If you’re thinking of investing in a multimillion-dollar infrastructure project, you need data – and plenty of it. You need to know what plants, transmission lines, and load centers will come online or retire near your proposed project. You need to know whether congestion or a competitor is nearby. 

This information may be publicly available but is often hard to find, organize, or analyze. 

There’s a better way with a new Yes Energy tool.

The New Builds Dataset for Viewing Changes to the Grid

Firstly, Yes Energy’s New Builds Dataset details upcoming retirements and new projects across the generation and transmission space, so you can have a more accurate view of the grid. It pulls from over 2,000 sources to add and update projects including:

• 7,000 generation projects
• 11,000 transmission projects
• 1,500 data center and crypto mining projects
• 1,200 oil and gas infrastructure projects.

The deepest and the most thoroughly researched database of all energy infrastructure projects in North America, this dataset gives you access to deep insights into the ever-changing status of generation, transmission and distribution, and load center (e.g. industrial, data centers, and cryptocurrency) facilities.

By incorporating this tool into your analysis, you can better understand upcoming fluctuations to supply and demand that might impact asset revenue.

New Builds Dataset Use Cases

For example, you can see the number of upcoming retirements by year in the US and Canada. 

Source: New Builds Dataset

You can dive into the data even further to see key information for projects, including:

• Location
• Project type
• Ownership information
• Status/status history
• Plant/line characteristics and equipment information
• Timeline
• Permits
• PPA/off-take information for plants.

For example, you can see the contractor, interconnection queue ID, and contact information for an upcoming project in ERCOT. 

Example of a proposed project we’re tracking, with an included full set of the data points we strive to collect

You can view this data in your API or download it as a CSV file. 

Conclusion

Avoid time-consuming data collecting with the New Builds Dataset. Want to learn more? Request a demo.