Quality Site Control You Can Count On
I find and tie up greenfield sites for utility-scale developers before they reach a broker, a listing, or a competitor's pipeline. Engagements are exclusive by state: one developer gets first look at everything I originate in a territory, on a retainer plus success fee.
Servicing developers across renewable energy and data center site control.
Solar and storage developers and data center developers are chasing overlapping ground — transmission capacity, flat buildable acres, cooperative counties, willing owners. The origination work is the same. The screens are not.
Solar & battery storage
Sites screened against the constraints that actually kill projects at diligence, not the ones that look good on a map.
- Proximity and headroom at target POIs; queue congestion read before outreach
- Buildable acreage net of wetlands, floodplain, slope, and setbacks
- Zoning posture, moratoria, and county-level political temperature
- Landowner contact, negotiation, and executed option
- Title, ROW, and access issues flagged before you spend on diligence
Data center greenfield
Land packages built around the two things that decide a campus: power on a credible timeline, and fiber.
- On-grid and behind-the-meter service capabilities
- Contiguous acreage assembly, including multi-owner tracts
- Fiber routes, water availability, and substation distance
- Entitlement path, tax abatement posture, and workforce basics
- Purchase option negotiated to your form
Four stages, boots on the ground at stage three.
Every site follows the same sequence. Nothing reaches you until it has cleared the desktop screen and a real conversation with the owner.
Desktop screening
Parcel, transmission, and constraint layers run against the criteria we set. Ownership research and title basics before a single call is made.
Landowner communication
Direct contact with the owner. Establish willingness, expectations, and whether the family is actually aligned before anyone spends money.
In-person visit & initial diligence
I walk the ground. Access, topography, drainage, neighbors, and the substation. Field observations get written up with the package.
Negotiation & execution
Terms negotiated and site control executed as a purchase option or a lease option, drafted on your form and delivered signed.
Two forms, chosen to fit the asset and the owner.
The form of site control is a negotiation in itself. Picking the wrong one costs a deal more often than price does.
Purchase option
An exclusive right to buy the parcel at a fixed price within a defined term, with extensions priced up front. The standard form where the asset needs fee title — data center campuses, substation and switchyard parcels, and BESS sites where the footprint is small and the ground is worth owning outright.
Lease option
An option to enter a long-term ground lease, with rent, escalators, and term negotiated at signing so there is nothing left to argue about at exercise. The standard form for utility-scale solar, where the acreage is large, the owner wants to keep the land in the family, and annual payments beat a single closing.
Both forms are negotiated to the developer's template. Where a landowner will not option, I will pursue a right of first refusal or a letter of intent to hold position while terms are worked.
2,790 MW and 5,870 acres originated across nine states.
Every site was sourced from a desktop screen, negotiated directly with the landowner, and taken to executed site control. All of the sites below were signed with utility-scale developers.
| State | Sites | MW | Acres | Market | Interconnecting utilities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 5 | 675 | 2,389 | MISO | Xcel Energy · Otter Tail Power · Connexus |
| Missouri | 5 | 675 | 283 | SPP | Evergy · Liberty Utilities · Springfield City Utilities |
| Michigan | 2 | 500 | 43 | MISO / PJM | DTE · Consumers Energy · AEP |
| Oklahoma | 4 | 450 | 1,311 | SPP | OG&E · PSO |
| Montana | 1 | 150 | 783 | WECC / SPP | NorthWestern Energy |
| Kansas | 1 | 100 | 635 | SPP | Evergy · Western Farmers Electric Coop |
| Colorado | 1 | 90 | 396 | WECC / SPP | Tri-State G&T |
| North Dakota | 1 | 75 | 15 | SPP | Otter Tail Power |
| Wisconsin | 1 | 75 | 15 | MISO | Alliant Energy · Adams-Columbia Electric Coop |
| Total | 21 | 2,790 | 5,870 | 4 markets | 16 utility counterparties |
Technology
- Standalone storage (BESS)
- 13 sites
- Solar + storage
- 8 sites
Market
- SPP
- 11 sites
- MISO
- 7 sites
- WECC / SPP
- 2 sites
- PJM / MISO
- 1 site
Parcel size
- Smallest
- 10 acres
- Largest
- 900 acres
- Median
- 79 acres
Priced per state, per developer.
One developer per state. That developer sees every qualified site I originate in the territory before anyone else does. The retainer buys the exclusivity and funds the search; the success fee is earned when site control is delivered.
Renewables — retained
Utility-scale solar, solar + storage, and standalone BESS| Coverage | Monthly retainer | Success fee | Minimum term | Exclusivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single stateOne state, one developer | $10,000/mo | $750/MW | 4 months | Full first look, statewide |
| Regional or ISO-specificMultiple contiguous states, or one full ISO footprint | $30,000/mo | $750/MW | 4 months | Full first look, region-wide |
Data centers — retained
Greenfield campus land, on-grid and behind-the-meter| Coverage | Monthly retainer | Success fee | Minimum term | Exclusivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single stateOne state, one developer | $20,000/mo | $1,500/acre | 4 months | Full first look, statewide |
Data center engagements price higher because the diligence is heavier: utility load-serving confirmation, fiber, water, and entitlement path all get worked before a site is presented.
Non-retained acquisitions
No retainer, no exclusivity, no territory commitment| Asset type | Monthly retainer | Success fee | Minimum term | Exclusivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RenewablesSolar, solar + storage, standalone BESS | — | $1,500/MW | — | None — site may be shopped |
| Data centerGreenfield campus land | — | $2,500/acre | — | None — site may be shopped |
Success fees run higher without a retainer because the search is funded entirely at my risk. A retained territory is the cheaper way to buy volume.
All retained engagements. Month-to-month thereafter.
First look on every qualified site for as long as the retainer is current. It lapses when the retainer does.
Success fee is still earned on any landowner I introduced who signs within 12 months of exclusivity ending.
Half at execution of the option, half at notice to proceed. Same on retained and non-retained work.
If I have not presented three qualified sites by the end of month four, months five and six are free.
A qualified site is one that has cleared the screening criteria we set at the outset, has a landowner who has confirmed willingness to transact, and arrives with a complete site package including field observations from an in-person visit.
Applies to every retained engagement. You are buying a search, and the search should produce — the floor is there so you are not the one carrying the risk if it does not.
One originator, not an agency.
I earned a Finance degree from the University of Iowa and have spent the better part of six years on site control and origination — the last four of them developing utility-scale solar and storage projects. Before energy, I sourced and sold investment real estate in Denver as a licensed agent, which is where I learned that a land deal is won in the first conversation, not the last one.
Communication and honesty, start to finish. If a site has a problem, you hear it from me before you spend money on it. If a landowner is wavering, you know that week — not at the option deadline. The same goes for the landowner: nobody signs an option from me without understanding exactly what they signed.
The work is done by the person you hire. No junior researchers, no handoffs, and no site presented to you that I have not screened against our criteria and walked myself.
Sites you can look at today, without signing a retainer.
Retained territories are how developers buy volume. This is the other door: individual sites already worked up and available for acquisition right now. Execute an NDA and the full package — parcel boundaries, ownership, coordinates, and the underlying diligence — comes to you the same week.
Project Texoma
Data center greenfield · South-central OklahomaNo new pipeline construction
50–65 MW Data center IT loadGas required: 10,000–15,000 Dth/day
Reflects likely spare capacity on the existing regional distribution lateral.
New lateral plus compression
Up to 700 MW Data center IT loadGas required: 50,000–150,000 Dth/day
A defined capital project, comparable in kind to the 400,000+ Dth/day of gas-fired generation capacity the pipeline operator has already committed along this same corridor.
Illustrative planning estimates only. Available capacity, interconnect cost, and timeline are subject to confirmation through a formal capacity and interconnect study with the pipeline operator.
Natural gas
- Sited on a major interstate transmission corridor with an existing regional distribution lateral
- The trunk operator is actively building out power-generation capacity across this network
- 400,000+ Dth/day of new gas-fired generation recently committed along the same corridor
Fiber
- Two active providers building in the county today, one already serving local enterprise for mission-critical operations
- Confirmed wholesale tiers: managed wavelength 10G–100G, Ethernet L2/3 to 100 Gbps, diverse-path dedicated internet access
- State broadband program awarded $192M across a 12-county area including this one (April 2026)
Water & cooling
- Two active, interconnected local water systems serving the immediate area
- Systems are sized for rural and residential use — industrial surplus requires direct confirmation
- Cooling design is the biggest lever: air-cooled closed-loop runs ~8,000 gal/day per 100 MW against ~500,000 for evaporative, a ~98% reduction
Location & logistics
- ~2 hours / ~120 miles to Dallas–Fort Worth
- ~2 hours / ~120 miles to Oklahoma City
- Served by the regional state and US highway network; rural setting with a low-friction entitlement path
Full package available under NDA
Exact boundaries, road frontage, parcel coordinates, ownership detail, and the supporting gas, fiber, and water diligence are released on execution of a mutual NDA. No retainer, no territory commitment.
More sites are added as they clear diligence
Renewable and data center sites reach this page only after the landowner has confirmed willingness to transact and I have walked the ground. If you want the next one before it is listed here, a retained territory puts you first in line.
Which state do you need covered?
Tell me the territory and the target POIs or load pocket. If it is open, I will send terms within a week.