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Land with grid power is the scarcest thing in Europe. Find it before everyone else does.

The largest candidate sites near a substation in the Netherlands, Great Britain and Germany, with zoning where it is published, headroom in Great Britain, and Natura 2000 and nitrogen in the Netherlands. The owner on request.

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“I spend weeks on Dutch, German and British portals. The congestion maps say full, the cadastre sells one parcel at a time, I still don't know who owns it, and by the time I have pieced it together someone else has it.”

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“My pipeline depends on land with a connection, and the queues are years long. The good sites move through networks I am not in.”

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Own land next to a substation, or a place in the connection queue? Find out who wants it. Free, private, no obligation.

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Sample report Powered-land shortlist for Noord-Brabant Candidate sites of 10 ha or more next to a high-voltage substation, outside Natura 2000, each with its grid, zoning and permit facts. Built from public facts only. Read the sample

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Netherlands

5,731 candidate sites in 12 provinces: the 5,000 largest of 22,834 near a substation (all those of 29 ha or more), and 731 business parks

  • 5,731 with the voltage of the nearest substation
  • 5,731 with the distance to the nearest Natura 2000 area
  • 5,366 with the zoning plan in force
  • 731 business parks with land for sale
  • 816 substations mapped

Search these sites · Hoogspanningsstations in Nederland · Netcongestie per provincie · Datacenters in Nederland · Natura 2000 areas

Great Britain

8,730 candidate sites in 183 local authorities: the 4,971 largest of 44,093 near a substation (all those of 27 ha or more), and 3,759 brownfield sites

  • 8,704 with the demand headroom its network operator publishes
  • 7,661 checked against planning designations
  • 1,067 in Scotland, all brownfield: the title polygons cover England and Wales
  • 4,347 substations mapped

Search these sites · Substations in the UK · TEC register · Battery storage in the UK · Power stations in the UK

Germany

5,000 candidate sites in 14 Länder: the largest of 308,259 near a substation (all those of 50 ha or more)

  • 5,000 with the voltage of the nearest substation
  • 5,000 with the nearest 220 or 380 kV transmission substation
  • 1,043 with the zoning of their land-use plan, in the 5 Länder that publish it
  • None yet in Bavaria or Bremen: Bavaria sells its cadastre
  • 5,344 substations mapped

Search these sites · Umspannwerke in Deutschland · Großbatteriespeicher in Deutschland · Kraftwerke in Deutschland · Rechenzentren in Deutschland

Around the sites: 165,741 assets and rights in 93 countries, 3,230 owners with a portfolio and 1,076 investors, from 2,037,644 facts in 134 public sources. Every fact links to its source and licence. Every asset class by country · Open data · Latest changes.

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Built by Jan Wilmake.

I think that as AI takes on more knowledge work, value moves to what stays scarce: land, energy, water and the rights on them. Rare Context is my attempt to map that land and who owns it, starting with land near the grid in the Netherlands, the UK and Germany.

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