Guide
Finding construction leads for energy and data center projects before they go to bid
Why solar, wind, storage and data center work rarely shows up on bid boards, and where to find it first.
Bid boards and plan rooms are built around projects that are advertised for bids: public works, and private buildings whose general contractor sends invitations to bid. Utility-scale energy and data center projects mostly are not. The developer picks an EPC or general contractor privately, and the builder picks its trades from people it knows. By the time a bid invitation exists, it goes to a short list.
To get on that list, you need to know about the project, and its builder, before the builder starts buying.
Where the early signals are
The records that come before the bid are public, but scattered across dozens of agencies: grid operators' interconnection queues, county agendas with tax abatements and zoning cases, state siting approvals, construction stormwater permits, builders' job posts and satellite imagery. Each is in its own format, published on its own schedule, and most name the project differently.
What to do with them
Track the projects in your area by stage, not by announcement date. A site with a signed interconnection agreement and a county abatement is worth a call to its developer to learn who will build it; a site with a stormwater permit on file is worth a call to its builder this week. The guide to the signals sets out which record means what.
Groundtrace does that join for you: every project in development in its industries, each fact with its record, ranked by how soon work is likely to start, and available in the app, through the API or inside your own AI assistant.