SitePath grades all 3,134 U.S. counties on permitting stringency, project history, and ordinance trajectory. Underwrite a market in minutes. Every figure traces to the original ordinance.
A clean A grade saves you months of land control and consulting spend. SitePath shows you the counties where utility-scale solar is actually permitted today, the ones drifting that way, and the ones quietly closed off by a board vote last month.
Standalone storage is governed by ordinance language most platforms ignore. We surface BESS-specific setbacks, fire-marshal review requirements, and recent denials so you can underwrite siting risk before optioning land.
Data-center siting is now an interconnection and zoning problem first. SitePath overlays utility IRP signals, RPS targets, and county-level industrial-use ordinances so your siting team can shortlist counties where both the substation and the BoS are friendly.
Every utility-scale solar ordinance event we catalogued in the last 30 days, color-coded by direction. The platform sees these before they hit commercial pipelines.
Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to remove utility-scale solar as a permitted use across all zoning districts. Functions as a de facto ban.
Open county →180-day moratorium on solar development extended while the county council drafts a comprehensive ordinance. Active permits frozen.
Open county →County commissioners passed a resolution creating a solar exclusion zone covering all unincorporated agricultural land. 25th Ohio county to do so under SB 52.
Open county →PA 233 in effect: state-level siting authority now applies to solar and storage projects over 100 MW, overriding local zoning conflicts. Material easing for developers.
View affected counties →Special use permit granted for a 250 MW solar farm, with prior contested-case denials reversed under CEJA's state-level standards. Pattern repeating in central IL.
Open county →Two additional counties adopted the NC model solar ordinance, bringing the aligned-county total to 89. Predictable setbacks for siting teams.
View affected counties →A national map, source-document research, and continuous monitoring, designed for solar origination, development, and underwriting teams.
All 3,134 U.S. counties scored on compliance stringency, market saturation, board trajectory, and active moratoria. Each grade is built from primary documents, never a survey, never a model.
Each county opens to the ordinance number, the adoption date, and a direct link to the source PDF on the county website. Every field traces to a primary government document: setbacks, acreage caps, height limits, denied applications.
Add markets to a watchlist and review active moratoria, recent ordinance amendments, and board-meeting items across all of them in one feed. Most ordinance changes appear in the platform weeks before they reach commercial pipelines.
Every figure on this platform is sourced from a county ordinance, board minutes, a state filing, or a utility resource plan. If a value can’t be verified against a primary document, it isn’t published.
Anyone can quote a state RPS target. SitePath is the only platform that grades the county-by-county permitting record: the layer that decides whether a project clears entitlement. We pair that grade with the state RPS and utility IRP signals that tell you where the demand is going. Permitting depth, in context.
Two Mecklenburg counties, one in Virginia and one in North Carolina. Both real, both sourced to primary government documents. Identical name, opposite ends of the risk spectrum.
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