Terms of Service

1. Acceptance

By creating an account, signing in, buying anything or using the Service, you accept these Terms, our Privacy Policy and our Refund Policy. If you do not accept them, do not use the Service.

The Service is for business use only. You must be at least 18 years old. If you use the Service for a company or other organisation, you confirm that you have authority to bind it to these Terms, and "you" includes that organisation.

2. What Voltane is

Voltane is development screening for Texas: solar, storage, wind, gas, geothermal, nuclear and data center projects. It screens public land and grid data against the requirements you set and ends in a sourced decision record, the Opportunity Brief: the sites that match, the evidence and source behind each one, and what is still unknown.

Other regions shown in the app (other US states, national layers and Europe) are coverage previews. They are offered as is, may be incomplete or change without notice, and Opportunity Briefs are not sold for them.

We may change, add or remove features, data and coverage. Doing so does not take away a brief you bought (see Plans).

3. Screening only

Preliminary screening. Not engineering, interconnection, permitting, legal or investment advice.

• Every output (maps, matches, briefs, reports, exports and Ask Voltane answers) is preliminary screening from public and third-party data. It is not engineering, interconnection, permitting, legal or investment advice, and not a site suitability determination.
• A site that "meets requirements" matches the requirements you set, on the data we hold. It is not a rating of the site or a finding that a project can be built there.
• Capacity figures and grid signals are proxies (for example, distance to transmission and interconnection-queue competition). They are not available capacity at any line or substation, and distance to a line says nothing about whether or when a project could connect.
• Data may be incomplete, out of date or wrong. Verify everything with the relevant utilities, ERCOT or other grid operators, transmission owners, landowners and authorities, and with your own advisers, before you rely on it.

4. Accounts

You sign in with your email address, through a one-time link we email you, or with Google where we offer it. Anyone who can read your email can sign in as you, so keep your email account secure. Sign-in links, and any password or access code we give you, are for you alone.

You are responsible for all activity under your account and must tell us promptly at batu@voltane.co if you think someone has used it without permission.

On a paid plan (Starter, Pro or Unlimited), the person who buys it is the account owner: they control billing and invite the other members.

5. Plans

• Free ($0): the map, filters and layers at overview detail, brief previews (approximate counts and a locked shortlist) and a small daily number of Ask Voltane messages. No full briefs, site reports, exports or saved sites.
• Starter (the fee shown in your order at checkout, billed monthly): up to 3 seats (the owner included), full detail, exports and saved sites, and 25 briefs and 50 site reports a month.
• Pro (the fee shown in your order at checkout, billed monthly): up to 3 seats (the owner included), full detail, exports and saved sites, and 50 briefs and 100 site reports a month.
• Unlimited (the fee shown in your order at checkout, billed monthly): up to 3 seats (the owner included), full detail, exports and saved sites, and unlimited briefs and site reports (fair use), subject to the fair-use terms below.
• Brief and site report allowances are counted per billing month and reset at the start of each one; unused briefs and reports do not carry over. A site report counts once per site per billing month, however often it is opened. When an allowance is used up, the app says so and offers an upgrade.
• Fair use (Unlimited). Unlimited means no fixed number of briefs or site reports for normal use by the account's own team (up to 3 people). It does not cover automated or bulk extraction, scraping, resale or sharing of access outside your team, or use that degrades the Service for others. We apply rate limits and a cost guard automatically; if your use goes beyond fair use we will contact you first, and may then limit it or ask you to agree a custom plan.
• Opportunity Briefs bought before 5 November 2026 (a one-time purchase no longer sold): each stays unlocked for its buyer, with its site reports, full details and package, for as long as we provide the Service, including its one free re-run within 7 days of purchase.
• Daily limits (such as Ask Voltane messages and brief previews) are shown on the Plans page and in the app, and are applied automatically.
• When a paid plan ends (cancelled or not paid), the account moves to Free. It keeps read-only access to the briefs and site reports the team created while subscribed, and every brief it bought stays unlocked.

6. Payment, renewal and cancellation

• Prices are in US dollars and are those shown on the Plans page or at checkout when you buy. Promotion codes apply only as stated at checkout.
• Payments are processed by Stripe, our payment processor. We never receive or store your full card number. Stripe's own terms also apply to your payment.
• Prices do not include taxes. We do not currently add sales tax or VAT at checkout. You are responsible for any taxes that apply to your purchase, other than taxes on our income. If we become required to collect a tax, we will show it at checkout before you pay.
• Automatic renewal. A paid plan renews automatically at the end of each month, at the price then in effect, and the payment method on file is charged each time until you cancel.
• Cancelling. The account owner can cancel at any time in Account → Manage billing (Stripe's billing portal), or by emailing batu@voltane.co. Cancelling stops the next renewal; the plan stays open until the end of the period already paid for.
• Upgrading (for example Starter to Pro) takes effect at once: the higher allowance applies straight away and the difference for the rest of the month is charged pro rata. Downgrading takes effect at the end of the paid month.
• If a renewal payment fails, Stripe retries it for a short time. If it is still not paid, the account moves to Free.
• We will tell you by email before a price change takes effect. A new price applies from your next renewal, never to a period you have already paid for.
• If a payment is refunded in full or disputed, what it paid for ends: a refunded or disputed brief is locked again, and a refunded plan ends.
• Our Refund Policy is part of these Terms.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• share a sign-in or seat with anyone who is not one of your plan's seats;
• scrape, crawl or bulk-extract data from the Service beyond the exports and downloads we offer;
• reverse engineer, decompile or probe the Service, or get around the sign-in, plan limits, rate limits or any other technical limit;
• resell, sublicense, publish or redistribute our data or outputs, or use them to build or improve a competing dataset or product;
• use the Service for anything unlawful, including unlawful contact with or harassment of landowners or anyone else identified through it;
• interfere with the Service or other users, or upload malicious code.

8. Data sources and landowners

The data in the Service is compiled from public and third-party sources, each used under its own licence or terms. Some fields may be restricted, shown only in the app, or left out of exports because of those terms.

Required attributions include: map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL); place names from GeoNames, under CC BY 4.0. Every source, its date and its licence are listed on our Credits, licences and data sources page and in the app's Data sources panel. When you share an output that contains such data, keep its attribution.

Voltane does not publish landowner names or mailing addresses. Sites link to the official county record instead.

9. AI features

• Ask Voltane, and the Opportunity Brief when it reads your project description and writes its one summary paragraph, use an AI model. AI output can be incomplete or wrong, even when it cites Voltane data. Check it before you rely on it. Site reports and the rest of a brief are produced by fixed rules from the data, not by AI.
• What you type into these features, and the on-screen context sent with it, is processed by our AI provider (see the Privacy Policy). Do not submit information you do not want processed that way, such as confidential third-party information or personal data you have no right to share.
• Ask Voltane reads Voltane data, looks up addresses you ask about with the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder, and moves the map in your browser. It takes no action with anyone outside Voltane: it does not contact anyone, send or file anything, or make commitments for you.

10. Intellectual property and licences

We and our licensors own the Service, including its software, design, the compilation and arrangement of its data, its screening methods and its report formats. Except for the licence below, these Terms give you no rights in them.

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the outputs you generate or buy (briefs, reports and exports) for your internal business purposes, including sharing them with your advisers, investors and partners when you evaluate projects. That licence does not allow publishing them, selling them or using them as a dataset.

Your inputs (project requirements, saved sites, notes and questions) remain yours. You give us a licence to host, process and use them only to run, secure and support the Service for you.

If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them freely without any obligation to you.

11. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service at any time, and close your account by emailing batu@voltane.co. Cancel any paid plan first so it does not renew.

We may suspend or end your access if you break these Terms, or if your use creates risk for us, other users or our data licensors. If we end it for that reason, no refund is due. If we close the Service, or end your access for any other reason, we will refund the unused part of any prepaid period and give you a chance to download the briefs you bought.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity and governing law) survive it.

12. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE AND ALL DATA AND OUTPUTS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE". TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS AND UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION. This does not limit what our Refund Policy promises for a defective brief.

13. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NEITHER PARTY IS LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THEIR POSSIBILITY.

OUR TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE FEES YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM AND (B) US $100.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations; in those, these limits apply to the extent permitted.

14. Indemnity

You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless Voltane and its officers, employees and agents from any third-party claim, loss or cost (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your misuse of the Service, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right, including in contacting landowners.

15. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The state and federal courts located in Delaware have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service, and both parties consent to their jurisdiction.

16. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. The "Last updated" date at the top shows when they last changed. For material changes we will give reasonable notice (on the site, in the app or by email) before they take effect. A change to prices or plan terms applies to a paid plan only from its next renewal. Continuing to use the Service after a change takes effect means you accept it.

17. Sanctions and export compliance

You confirm that you are not located in, organised in or ordinarily resident in a country or region subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions, and are not on, or owned or controlled by anyone on, a U.S. government restricted-party list. You will not use, export or re-export the Service or its data in violation of U.S. or other applicable export-control or sanctions laws.

18. General

• Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy and the Refund Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service and replace any earlier understanding about it. A separate signed agreement with us prevails over these Terms where they conflict.
• Severability. If any provision is found unenforceable, it is limited to the minimum extent necessary and the rest stays in effect.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, or to an affiliate.
• No waiver. Not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it.
• Notices. We may give notices on the site, in the app or by email to your account address. Send notices to us at the email below.

19. Contact

Voltane Inc., 6820 Old Chesterbrook Road, McLean, VA 22101. Email: batu@voltane.co.