TierraLens for renewables
Renewable developers
Screen 10,000 parcels a day. Deep-dive the top 50.
Utility-scale solar, wind, and BESS developers live and die by site-selection speed. TierraLens gives your siting team an API that can rip through tens of thousands of candidate parcels a day — scoring each on Edwards Aquifer karst, Article 24 wetlands, SEQRA Type I triggers, and transmission queue proximity — before a single consultant hour is billed. When you find the fifty parcels worth a deep-dive, the same API returns citations, permit paths, and typical timelines in machine-readable JSON.
Why it hurts today
SEQRA + Article 24 in New York
Post-2022 amendments dropped the Article 24 wetlands threshold to 7.4 acres (2025) and will cover all regulated wetlands by 2028. SEQRA Type I review on a 10-acre+ parcel tacks 12–24 months onto the schedule before you even touch ORES.
Edwards karst + SOS in Central Texas
The Austin–San Antonio solar corridor sits on top of USFWS karst-invertebrate critical habitat and the Edwards Recharge Zone. WPAPs, HCPs, and Austin SOS net-zero loading can kill a project that looked perfect in a CAD overlay.
Transmission queue + interconnection timing
ERCOT and NYISO queue positions change weekly. A parcel that pencils with 2027 in-service slips past its PPA strike window if permit timelines aren't modeled alongside the ISO shot clock.
Community opposition you didn't see coming
Local moratoria, NYC DEP watershed vetoes, and Article 24 adjacent-area expansions can flip a green-lit parcel red between quarters. Static GIS exports don't catch that — a monitored API does.
Why TierraLens
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API-first, not report-first
POST coordinates, get JSON. No PDF wrappers, no consultant re-entry. Your internal siting tool hits /v1/screen directly during the nightly batch and surfaces only the parcels still worth a human look.
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Regulations, not just geometry
Every layer ships with its triggering regulations — code, citation, authority, typical timeline, and permit path. Edwards overlap returns TX-EAPP-WPAP; NYC watershed overlap returns NYC-WR-18. No guessing what a layer means.
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ORES-aware
For projects ≥25 MW the API flags NY-94c and the 1-year ORES shot clock alongside the local zoning that gets preempted. You see the siting win before your land team has to make the call.
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Monitored, not snapshotted
/v1/monitor watches Article 24 remapping, TCEQ EAPP rule amendments, and ORES dockets. Your portfolio gets a webhook the day a parcel's regulatory posture changes.
Sample queries
3 examplescurl -X POST https://api.tierralens.co/v1/screen \
-H "Authorization: Bearer tl_live_..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"state": "TX",
"geometry": { "type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[...]] },
"acreage": 500,
"use_case": "utility_solar",
"include_regulations": true
}'curl https://api.tierralens.co/v1/layers?state=NY&category=renewable \
-H "Authorization: Bearer tl_live_..."curl -X POST https://api.tierralens.co/v1/monitor \
-H "Authorization: Bearer tl_live_..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"parcel_id": "tx-travis-0142-77",
"webhook": "https://siting.example.com/tl-hook",
"events": ["regulation_change", "layer_remap"]
}'Relevant in our launch states
New York
Texas
- TX-EAPP-WPAPhighTexas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)Water Pollution Abatement Plan (Recharge Zone)30 TAC §213.5
- ESA-7-KARSThighUSFWS Austin Ecological ServicesESA §7 — Karst Invertebrates16 U.S.C. §1536; 50 CFR §17
Ship a faster siting funnel
Join the waitlist to plug TierraLens into your siting pipeline. We onboard renewable developers first — TX and NY today, CA and CO next.