NIKA use case
NIKA for Renewable energy
Originate and screen sites with the irradiance, parcel, and interconnection tools US developers run daily.
For solar and wind developers — find connectable parcels and kill bad deals before the site visit.
Kristaps Ungurs / UnsplashThe challenge
Everything you need exists — just not in one place.
Originating renewable sites means screening irradiance, parcels, slope, and interconnection across separate tools — and most leads die at the interconnection queue anyway.
What NIKA does
How NIKA helps renewable energy teams.
Rank parcels fast
Score land on irradiance or wind, slope, and distance to the nearest substation.
Screen out dead ends
Filter wetlands, setbacks, and impossible interconnections before a site visit.
Estimate production
Model annual output and a rough LCOE for any candidate site.
Products that power this
From the old way to the NIKA workflow.
Originating renewable sites means screening irradiance, parcels, slope, and interconnection across separate tools — and most leads die at the interconnection queue anyway.
- 7 data sources that don’t talk to each other
- Analysts stitch it together by hand — days per question
- Often stale by the time the answer lands
- Model suitabilityNIKA GeoEngineExplore GeoEngine
Score irradiance, wind, slope, and constraints into a site-suitability surface.
- Rank & screenNIKA AnalystExplore Analyst
Rank parcels, estimate LCOE, and screen out dead-end interconnections.
Faster siting and far fewer dead-end interconnection deals.
How it works
From your data to a decision.
- Step 1
Connect your data
Files, folders, and the platforms your team already pays for.
- Step 2
Ask in plain language
No query language, no technical expertise — just the question.
- Step 3
NIKA reasons across location
It reads, searches, and runs the analysis grounded in real coordinates.
- Step 4
Get the decision
A report, map, or answer you can act on and share.
Data connectors NIKA uses
NIKA plugs into the platforms renewable energy teams already pay for, then reasons across them in one place.
- NREL PVWatts & NSRDB
- Aurora Solar
- LandGate
- Anderson Optimization
- ISO queues (PJM · ERCOT · CAISO)
- HIFLD grid & substations
- Parcels, setbacks & zoning
What you can ask NIKA
- Rank these parcels for utility-scale solar by irradiance, slope, and distance to the nearest substation.
- Filter out parcels in wetland or setback zones and show interconnection queue load nearby.
- Estimate annual production and a rough LCOE for this site.
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