Voltane vs Paces: Powered Site Selection

What Paces is

According to its website (checked November 2026), Paces says it "helps energy infrastructure teams find viable sites, de-risk development, and get to power faster." Its homepage headline is "De-risked projects. Powered faster."

The page describes an AI agent for workflows such as finding sites and obtaining site control, software backed by data and human expert validation, power and permitting reports, and services that combine human expertise and AI. It names power developers and data center developers as users. Visitors can schedule a demo, get in touch or sign in. The homepage does not state a fixed geographic scope.

What Voltane is

Voltane is a siting service for projects that need a lot of power. You tell Voltane what you need: megawatts, target energization year, region and acreage. Voltane then finds candidate sites in Texas, with a focus on ERCOT, reports on each one and returns a priced shortlist. It starts with a request form and a booked call. See Find me a site.

Behind the service is Voltane's own Texas map engine, built from public data. It reads land for distance to transmission lines and substations, interconnection queue activity, flood zones, wetlands, protected land, gas pipelines and more. Every fact carries its source and date. Every estimate is labelled as an estimate, with its range and its method. The engine is an internal tool, not a public product. Voltane shows the evidence the engine produced for each site in the report.

Some limits, stated plainly. Voltane's capacity signal is a proxy built from distance to transmission and queue competition. It is never available MW at a substation. Voltane does not publish landowner names. Its results are screening only, not a site suitability determination. A second service, Analyze my site, for a site you already have in the contiguous United States, is available by request; online ordering is not open yet.

How they differ

Question	Paces	Voltane
Model	Software, an AI agent, reports and services, per its site	Done-for-you engagement that starts with a request form and a call
What you get	Site finding tools plus power and permitting reports, per its site	A priced shortlist of candidate sites, with a sourced report on each
Coverage	Not stated on its homepage. See their site	Texas, with a focus on ERCOT. Analyze my site takes sites across the contiguous United States, by request
Who does the work	See their site	Voltane, using its internal map engine

Both companies mix software with expert work, so the line between them is less sharp than with a pure data platform. The clearest differences are scope and form. Voltane offers one engagement today: a Texas site search that ends in a priced shortlist. Its map engine stays internal. Paces describes a wider product set that includes software your team can use. For anything beyond that, read their site.

Which fits when

Paces may fit when you want software and reports your team works with directly, or when your projects sit in markets Voltane does not cover.

Voltane may fit when your need is a Texas site for a set MW and energization year, and you want one team to run the search and show its evidence.

Product details change. Check each company's own site before deciding. All trademarks belong to their owners.

Questions people ask

Is Voltane the same kind of company as Paces?

They overlap. Both work on siting for power and data center projects. Paces describes software, an AI agent, reports and services. Voltane offers a done-for-you Texas site search and keeps its engine internal.

Does Voltane sell software access?

No. The Texas map is Voltane's internal engine. Clients get the shortlist and the report, with the evidence behind each site.

Sources

Paces homepage

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Need a site, or have one?

Tell us what you need and Voltane finds, reports on and prices candidate sites in ERCOT. Or bring a site you already have for a path-to-power report (by request for now).

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