Kortex
snapshot · 2026-07-18
Kortex · live worked answer · screening-grade

Which grid zones deserve a 300 MW connection study? An answer with its receipt.

This is a live screen, not a mock-up: Kortex ranks the grid zones of nine countries for a new 300 MW connection study by joining installed dispatchable low-carbon capacity, EHV connection points, wholesale price, water stress and counterparty ownership in one traversal (queue congestion joins where queue evidence exists, US today; these European zones each disclose its absence), then shows its work. Every surviving zone carries its reasons, its confidence tier and its counterparty; every rejected zone carries the single constraint that killed it. It eliminates weak options and ranks the remainder; it does not replace utility confirmation, a power-flow study or a formal connection application.

load 300 MW interconnection ≥ 275 kV firm supply dispatchable low-carbon only countries GB · IE · NO · SE · FI · DK · NL · BE · FR
running the live screen…
Have actual candidate coordinates? The candidate-site screen (POST /v2/insights/siting/sites) takes up to 50 sites, each a point or a GeoJSON site boundary (distances then measure from the asserted edge), and returns per-site verdicts (proceed / investigate / reject / insufficient evidence) with hard gates, per-check evidence and a receipt. The checks: connection topology, published operator capacity, queue registers (US · GB · IE · DE), flood, water, statutory designations, registered-freehold land fabric, planning pipeline, digital infrastructure, and a path-to-power ledger with observed connection durations. It is the layer that decides which sites deserve a POI-grade engineering study, a utility enquiry or a formal application; it never replaces one. A completed run is at /worked-example. This page is the zone-grain screen that feeds it.

Screening-grade, and says so. Clean-firm capacity, substation voltages and prices are source-reported; the gates and ranking are Kortex logic with disclosed weights. It is a first-pass for an analyst; not a connection guarantee, a headroom study or a forecast. Queue congestion is verified only where queue data exists (US/LBNL today) and each zone says so itself. Demand context (population and 25-year growth, GHSL GHS-POP zonal sums) rides on each candidate as context; it is NOT part of the suitability score, whose disclosed weights are unchanged.