About Voltane
What is Voltane?
Voltane is a software company that helps teams find and assess land for large power users and energy projects. It runs its own map engine on public data and delivers the results as a service. You get site searches and site reports, not a login to a tool.
Who founded Voltane?
Voltane was founded by Batu Yetki. You can reach him at batu@voltane.co.
Where does Voltane work?
Voltane works in Texas first, on the ERCOT grid. Find me a site covers candidate sites in ERCOT. Analyze my site, by request for now, takes a site you already have in the contiguous United States and is deepest in Texas.
Who is Voltane for?
Voltane is for data center developers, hyperscale and colocation site selection teams, and energy developers working on solar, storage and gas-to-power. Land brokers and investors use it too.
What services does Voltane offer?
There are two. Find me a site: you tell Voltane what you need and it finds, reports on and prices candidate sites in ERCOT. Analyze my site: you bring a site you already have and get a report on its path to power. The second service is by request for now: online ordering is not open yet.
Is Voltane a self-serve map product?
No. The Texas map is now the internal engine behind the services. Voltane does the search and hands you the results.
Find me a site
How does Find me a site work?
You fill in a short request form and book a call. On the call you and Voltane agree on what you need and the timeline. Voltane then runs the search on its internal map engine and sends you a shortlist.
What do I need to send?
Send the size of the project in megawatts, your target energization year, the region you want and the acreage you need. If you have other must-haves, add them on the form or raise them on the call.
What do I get back?
You get a shortlist of candidate sites. Each site comes with a report and a price view. Facts carry their source and date, and estimates are labelled as estimates.
How long does a search take?
The timeline depends on what you ask for, so it is agreed on the call. Voltane does not publish a standard turnaround time.
How much does it cost?
This page does not list prices. Pricing is discussed on the call, along with the scope and the timeline.
Which regions does the search cover?
Find me a site covers Texas sites on the ERCOT grid. If your project is somewhere else, say so on the form. Analyze my site, by request for now, takes a site in the contiguous United States.
What kinds of projects can I ask for?
You can ask for sites for data centers and other large loads, gas-to-power, solar, battery storage and hybrid projects. Tell Voltane the project type so the search uses the right criteria.
Will the shortlist tell me who owns each site?
Voltane never publishes landowner names. Each site comes with its county property ID and a link to the official county record, where ownership is public.
Analyze my site
What is Analyze my site?
It is a service for a site you already have. You bring the site, and Voltane sends you a report on its path to power: grid access, land, risk and, for a data center site in Texas, estimated power cost and time to power. It is by request for now.
Is Analyze my site available now?
Not as an online order yet. It is by request for now: send a request with your site and Voltane replies by email.
Which sites does it cover?
Sites in the contiguous United States, not only Texas. The power cost and time to power section is for data center sites in Texas on the ERCOT grid. Find me a site, by contrast, covers ERCOT in Texas.
What does the report cover?
The path to power for your site, from public data: grid access, land, mapped risks, the steps to energization with their sources, and the open questions. For a data center site in Texas it adds estimated power cost for grid and onsite options and time to power. The estimates are not quotes.
How do I ask for an Analyze my site report?
Send a request from the form on the home page and choose Analyze my site. Online ordering is not open yet, so Voltane reads each request and replies by email.
How is it different from Find me a site?
Find me a site starts from your needs and looks for land in ERCOT. Analyze my site starts from land you already have, in the contiguous United States, and reports on it.
The engine and data
What is the Voltane engine?
It is the internal map engine Voltane uses to screen Texas land. It reads each parcel against the grid, the interconnection queue, prices, flood zones, wetlands and other public data, and ranks sites against what a client needs.
Where does the data come from?
The engine is built from public data. Sources include FEMA flood maps, the National Wetlands Inventory, public transmission line and substation data, the ERCOT interconnection queue and market prices, federal pipeline data and county appraisal records.
How do I know how current a fact is?
Every fact carries its source and its date. Some public sources are older snapshots, and the date tells you when that is the case.
What happens when data is missing?
Unknown is shown as unknown. For example, a site in a county with no digital FEMA flood map has unknown flood exposure, not zero percent. Voltane never fills a gap with a favourable number.
How are facts and estimates kept apart?
A fact has a source and a date. An estimate is labelled as an estimate and comes with its range and its method. The two are not mixed.
How does Voltane estimate time to power?
The estimate is a range based on the public history of past ERCOT generation interconnection requests in similar places. It is generation queue history, not large-load history. It is not a schedule and not a date any utility has agreed to.
Does Voltane show landowner names?
No. Voltane does not publish landowner names or mailing addresses. Reports point to the official county record for each site.
Limits
Is a Voltane report a site suitability determination?
No. Voltane is screening only, not a site suitability determination. It narrows the field and shows the evidence. The utility studies, field work and legal review are still needed.
Does Voltane tell me how much capacity is available at a substation?
No. The capacity signal is a proxy built from distance to transmission and from interconnection queue competition nearby. It is never available megawatts. Only the utility and ERCOT can tell you what the grid can serve.
Does Voltane promise interconnection or a power date?
No. Voltane does not promise interconnection capacity or an energization date. A substation or line near a site is a place to ask, not a commitment.
What does Voltane not check?
Voltane works from public data and does not visit sites. It does not replace a survey, a title review, a wetland delineation, a site-level flood study, zoning review or a utility load study.
How accurate is the data?
Public data has gaps and delays. Maps of lines, substations and data centers can be out of date or incomplete. That is why each fact shows its source and date and why missing data is marked unknown.
Is this legal, tax or engineering advice?
No. Voltane reports are screening information from public data. Ask your own lawyer, tax adviser and engineers before you make a decision.
Access
Can I sign up and use the map myself?
No. The map is internal. Voltane uses it to do the work for clients.
How do clients get access?
Clients get access as part of an engagement. It is not sold as a separate self-serve product.
Is there a free account or a free trial?
No. There are no free self-serve accounts.
How do I start?
Fill in the request form on the Voltane home page and we will set up a call. If you have a question first, email batu@voltane.co.
Something else? Email batu@voltane.co or read the glossary and the guides.
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).