Interpreted brief22 Mar 2026Completed

Find lower-risk utility-scale solar opportunities in Ireland with decent grid access.

The current shortlist leans toward midlands and western edge locations where coarse grid proximity stays acceptable without taking on the highest planning friction.

Scope guardrails

Only explains the active screening context.
Uses deterministic candidate ranking and coarse proxy scores.
Flags missing diligence instead of inventing parcel-level certainty.

Candidate map

Ranked search space

Grid proxyPlanning dragSearch geometry

Fallback demo screening

Shortlist

Candidate ranking

4 areas

Decision panel

Athlone fringe cluster

Balanced shortlist leader with solid infrastructure access and fewer obvious blockers in a coarse first pass.

Suitability

83

Planning

28

Land fit

81

Why it works

Grid proxy is strong enough for early triage

The cluster stays closer to transmission and substation proxies than most western alternatives in this pass.

Risk posture matches the brief

It avoids the highest-friction planning zones while still preserving enough scale to justify follow-up diligence.

Search geometry is coherent

The candidate area is large enough to support multiple site options before parcel filtering begins.

Risks and unknowns

Specific planning constraints may tighten quickly once parcel boundaries are introduced.

Grid capacity could degrade materially after real connection review.

Unknown: Substation queue saturation

Unknown: Local road upgrade requirements

Next checks

Pull local planning designations

High

Confirm whether the highest-scoring polygons intersect county-level sensitivities hidden by the coarse layer stack.

Run a connection triage

High

Replace the infrastructure proxy with an initial engineering view on substation options and distance realism.

Check land aggregation shape

Medium

Test whether the area can support a contiguous layout without impractical fragmentation.

Grounded copilot

Why was this area shortlisted?

It stays closest to the stated objective: lower early-stage planning drag with enough infrastructure confidence to justify follow-up diligence.

What could still kill this project?

Detailed connection feasibility, parcel-level planning restrictions, and land assembly risk remain unresolved in this pass.

Out-of-scope requests should be refused or redirected.

Example: fresh market research, parcel-level viability, or unsupported legal advice.

Priorities

Lower planning riskReasonable grid proximityOperationally legible shortlist

Assumption: Grid access is scored by coarse infrastructure proximity, not queue position.

Assumption: The user prefers lower-risk delivery over marginal resource upside.

Assumption: Planning conflict screening is indicative and should trigger document review, not replace it.

Missing diligence

Detailed connection feasibility

Land control and ownership

Parcel-specific ecology and heritage checks