How Station A flags fatal flaws before a site reaches its marketplace

Station A uses Fordje's jurisdiction data during early site qualification to identify potential setbacks, moratoria, and permitting risks before the team invests more work in a site.

15–20%

of sites screened with Fordje data were flagged as prohibited for battery storage under local rules.

At a glance

Company: Station A
What they do: Screen enterprise real estate portfolios for solar and storage opportunities, then run competitive bidding among developers and installers
Who uses Fordje: Akshay Shetty, Senior Product Engineer, early-stage site qualification
Problem: Catching setbacks, moratoria, and permitting roadblocks before more work goes into a site
Fordje data used: County-level setbacks, moratoria, and permitting requirements for the states in Station A's client portfolios
Early result: 15 to 20% of sites screened with Fordje data flagged as prohibited for battery storage

The challenge: catching fatal flaws early

Station A helps enterprise real estate owners find where solar and storage pay off across their portfolios. A client hands over a list of addresses, often spread across the country. Akshay Shetty sorts those sites by technology and market and builds the ROI case for each group.

Sites the client approves go into Station A's marketplace. Solar and battery developers and installers bid, Station A levelizes the bids, and the client picks a provider.

But even sites with strong economics can have fatal flaws. Setbacks, moratoria, and other permitting restrictions can derail a project, often after months of work and thousands of dollars in pre-development costs. Local storage rules may not surface until permitting is underway.

Many of Station A's clients come from real estate and aren't familiar with these permitting complexities. Drawing on its team's energy development experience, Station A works to identify potential roadblocks earlier, avoiding unnecessary costs and focusing resources on sites with real project potential.

"Energy projects can get derailed in so many different ways, and this is one way we can save our time."

Akshay Shetty · Senior Product Engineer, Station A

What changed: jurisdiction data in the first screen

Akshay's team uses Fordje's county-level data during early qualification to look for setbacks from buildings and roads, active moratoria, and other permitting roadblocks. Fordje delivers the data state by state for the geographies in Station A's client portfolios.

Station A's platform can map setbacks onto a parcel to show where a battery fits. Akshay says Fordje's data helps the team be more accurate, because they know they have taken the right requirements into account.

"We want to identify the fatal flaws at a site level, and do it as early in our process as we possibly can. If the fatal flaw is too big, then we just don't spend the time on it."

Akshay Shetty · Senior Product Engineer, Station A

Early results

Of the sites Station A screened with Fordje data, 15 to 20% came back prohibited for battery storage under local rules. Station A flags those sites during qualification, so the recommendations it brings to clients already account for local storage rules, and developers in its marketplace avoid bidding on sites where batteries aren't allowed. This saves money, time, and effort for the developer and the real estate customer.

About Station A

Station A is the leading clean energy marketplace connecting commercial real estate owners with vetted energy providers. We combine an evaluation platform, a trusted marketplace, and a team of advisors to ensure the optimal value of every site.

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About Fordje

Fordje gives clean energy teams up-to-date zoning, permitting, and interconnection requirements, plus active moratoria, from prospecting through PTO, so projects don't stall on surprises. Fordje covers 28,000+ U.S. jurisdictions.