The Basepoint Blog
Practical writing on interconnection, siting, design, and project finance for teams building energy projects.
What we write about
Every post is written by the team building Basepoint for the people developing solar, wind, storage, and data center power projects in the US. Four threads run through it: Interconnection, how queues, hosting capacity maps, and power flow screening decide whether a site can connect; Siting, what makes a parcel buildable, from setbacks and slope to ownership and community sentiment; Design, layouts, 8760 yield, and the engineering decisions that move a design from concept to bankable; Finance, pro formas, tax credits, and the numbers that turn a screened site into a financed project.
Most Recent
Interconnection
Power flow screening before you file for interconnection
Siting
Buildable acreage: how to calculate what a parcel can really hold
Siting
Data center site selection is now a power problem
Guides
The utility-scale solar development timeline, stage by stage
Design