Terranode finds and validates where a storage, renewable or data-centre asset — BESS, RES or a load — can actually be built and connected. SSI-ENN then overlays what the validated asset is worth — to the investor, the grid, the community and the owner — and packages it for LPs and regulators.
Because the same asset on a different substation is a different investment — different grid relief, approval logic and return profile. The platform carries a site from the national grid and cadastre to a defensible valuation and a compliance pack, without a single number losing its source. Built for every OECD and EU market; live and validated in Italy today.
Terranode establishes that an asset is real, buildable and connectable. SSI-ENN sits on top and establishes what that real asset means — financially, to the grid, and to the community — then proves it to LPs and regulators. The two meet at a single, typed handoff.
The whole arc, in motion: the failure economics, the node thesis, Terranode's A→E screen, and SSI-ENN's four lenses converging on one decision memo. Captioned; figures illustrative.
Prices swing and can be hedged; the kit is replaceable. The one thing you can't move or un-congest is the substation — and it sets value and risk for the asset's entire 25–30-year life. It is the un-hedgeable residual that underwriting most often under-weights, because it never shows up on a price screen. The node decides two things at once:
The node sets the revenue environment — zonal price, scarcity and congestion rents, the value of grid relief, ancillary demand, and DER saturation (cannibalisation). The same asset on a scarcer node simply earns more. Pricing power comes from position in the grid, not from the kit.
The node sets whether you can evacuate your power: hosting capacity, congestion, reverse-flow limits, voltage headroom. It is two-sided — headroom de-risks volume; a saturated node spills it as curtailment. Lost volume is lost revenue, and it is structural to the node, not the asset.
SSI scores every node on six axes that decompose exactly these two dimensions — Continuity · Voltage · Infrastructure (flow & reliability) and Economic · Saturation · Transition (pricing power). The substation is the only project variable that is both a primary driver of value and durable across the asset's life — so it is the metric Terranode screens first, before a euro of development capital is committed.
Five modules, run in sequence, for storage and renewable sites alike. Each hands a standardised, typed dataset to the next, so every parcel in the final output can be traced back to the exact step — and the exact source — that produced it. The engine is market-agnostic; the regulatory layer is swapped per jurisdiction (Italy first, then the rest of the OECD and EU).
Filters AT/MT substations on 8 engineering dimensions (D1–D8): voltage, quality, hosting capacity, headroom, physical space, strategic positioning, data reliability, queue pressure.
Spatial cadastral query, parcel sizing, adjacency aggregation, land-use filter, MASE suitable areas, slope filter (TINITALY DEM).
Regulatory buffers: roads, rail, power lines, hydrography; sensitive-receptor filter; Sentinel-2; net usable area.
Overlap-aware screening on 19 regulatory layers, BESS reversibility (R_BESS), cumulative-impact assessment.
Parcel datasheets, ITX assessment, connection cost, DXF layout, interactive dashboard.
The country's filtered connection points, its cadastral parcels, and its national regulatory layers — unified into one queryable model, per market.
Modules A · B · CConstraints, buffers and environmental overlaps surface at screening time — not in due diligence three months later.
Module DCable routing on public roads with a preliminary connection-cost estimate per site, ready for the investment committee.
Module ETerranode never blurs measured fact with estimate. Each value carries one of three honest labels:
Where a feed is a documented proxy pending an authoritative connection, the tool says so — visibly. Reproducible runs, immutable logs.
Not a black-box score — a classification with the reasons attached:
Each verdict lists the binding criteria, the buffers applied, and the layers that moved it — auditable backward to the source.
There is no copy-paste, no re-keying, no second model. Terranode emits the site descriptor that SSI-ENN consumes directly — zone, capacity, asset type, connection and cost all flow across one interface.
Net usable area · bidding zone · connection type · preliminary connection cost · environmental verdict — 40+ traced attributes.
The qualified site lands as a typed descriptor. Adding it to a portfolio is a drop-in — no new model, no class-specific code.
One financial engine, four audiences — BESS, RES or a data centre. The investor sees return; the grid sees stakeholder value; the community sees welfare; the owner sees the revenue stack and what to build first. All four resolve from the same cash-flow model and the same source-traced inputs, and converge in a single decision memo. Figures below are illustrative of the output shape.
Risk-stratified DCF → project & equity IRR, NPV and a scenario envelope per asset profile.
Stakeholder value to the DSO and TSO — congestion relief, deferral, reliability and voltage support.
Welfare across five pillars and the SSI v4 stress index — measured before and after deployment.
How value splits across contracted, merchant and option revenue, plus deployment priority across the pipeline.
The same valuation outputs roll up into the disclosure frameworks an institutional allocator expects — derived from the figures, never re-attested by hand.
The capital dies in Step 2 — full development to permits and authorisations. Terranode front-loads those failure modes — grid headroom, connection cost, buildability, permitting — back to Step 1, so capital commits to the one-in-five sites that survive, not the four-in-five that won't.
Figures per MW nominal (MWn). Development cash-at-risk excludes grid-connection deposits, which sit on top (see the connection-cost surprise). Attrition and connection data are U.S. (the best-documented market); the development-cost share follows UK DESNZ and industry norm — the grid-connection and permitting bottleneck binds across the OECD and EU alike.
Across the OECD, granted permits are appealed, annulled, and in the worst cases voided after construction — and the grounds are usually land issues a complete screen would have flagged. This is not an Italian quirk; it is structural.
France fast-tracked a dedicated litigation court to cope, and the Conseil d'État has struck down onshore-wind authorisation rules. Germany has roughly 6× more renewables capacity stuck in permitting than under construction.
The Supreme Court (2021) declared the Fosen licences — Storheia + Roan, already built and operating — invalid for breaching Sámi rights. The flagship "authorisation overturned post-build" case.
In Spain, a 125-turbine cluster faces annulment amid alleged manipulation of environmental approvals; in Italy, the largest anti-mafia confiscation in the sector reached €1.3bn.
Most of these annulments rest on land grounds a complete screen would flag — visual saturation, protected species, indigenous land, agricultural-land protection, EIA integrity. Terranode's auditable, public-data constraint screen reduces exposure to those avoidable grounds and leaves a record that survives a challenge. It cannot insure against political reversal or third-party fraud — and doesn't claim to.
The moat isn't any single module — it's that origination, underwriting and reporting run on one engine, with one provenance chain, for storage and renewables, across the OECD and EU. And it attacks a quantified problem: €15–32k/MWn of development capital is sunk reaching ready-to-build (grid deposits on top), while four in five projects never get built. Terranode commits that capital only to the sites that survive.
From the national substation database to investor IRR, grid value, community welfare and a compliance pack — without exporting to a second model that loses the audit trail.
Every figure — a slope value in Terranode's Module B, an equity IRR in the SSI-ENN investor lens — traces to its source. Reproducible runs; immutable logs; Official / Derived / Estimated on everything.
One engine; a regulatory layer swapped per country. Italy is live and validated today (MASE suitable areas, CEI buffers, zonal market, AIFMD II / CSRD as Italy applies them); the same architecture extends to every OECD and EU market.
BESS, RES or a data centre; investor, grid, community and owner valuations are not four spreadsheets that disagree — they are four views of the same cash-flow model and the same validated site, converged in one decision memo.
Both layers share one non-negotiable spine. It's why the output survives due diligence.
Same inputs and configuration in, identical output out — every run, every time. No hidden state, no drift between executions.
Every analytical decision is traced with explicit provenance to its source. Each run leaves an immutable record, verifiable backward to the step that produced it.
The platform declares openly what is measured, what is derived from official sources, and what is estimated via a documented proxy. When data is missing, it says so.
For developers of storage and renewable assets across the OECD and EU who want a shortlist they can defend in front of an investment committee — and a valuation they can hand to an LP.