People who develop solar, wind, storage or data center projects and deal with county permitting: development managers, permitting leads and community engagement leads.

Which states does it cover?

Colorado first, a county at a time. If your projects are elsewhere, tell me where and I'll look at it.

Where does the data come from?

Public records only: county meeting records and video, ordinances, project history and grid queue data, local news, and environmental and incident records. Each insight links to its source. It profiles public officials and organisations from their public acts, and never private residents.

Each insight shows the date of the record behind it, so you can see how current it is.

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Board of commissioners

Commissioner A

Likely support

Supports voluntary land leasesCites tax base

Commissioner B

Likely oppose

No near homesFarmland first

Commissioner C

Swing

Swing: water and fireAsks for setbacks

Dots: last four project votes. Filled is yes.

Public comment, last 12 months

Water41 mentions

Property values27 mentions

Battery fire risk19 mentions

Farmland loss15 mentions

Views and glare8 mentions

Watching: Hollow Creek Solar

Hearing in 12 weeks

Week 10
Alert
Letter to the editor
Local news
Week 8
Alert
Opposition website registered
Domain records
Week 6
Alert
Petition launched
Public petition
Week 2
Alert
Agenda item posted
County agenda

Week 0: county hearing

Engagement plan: Hollow Creek Solar

4 actions

Meet Commissioner C on water use before filing
Address battery fire safety with the fire chief
Host an open house in the north of the county
Answer the 2023 denial: larger setbacks from homes

Plynthworks.

Your community intelligence platform for project development.

A personal project, feedback welcome

Scroll to see how

Why do projects die?

Every development project is decided by 3 people.

Do you know what they think?

Which of my projects is at risk?

Permitting is the one risk you can't control.

Plynthworks looks at the permit risk of each project in your pipeline, county by county.

Your pipeline6 projects, 1.19 GW

Kestrel Solar + storage, 240 MWLate stageLow
Highline Wind, 300 MWEarly stageLow
Hollow Creek Solar, 120 MWPermittingHigh
Caliche Storage, 100 MWLate stageWatch
Bluestem Solar, 180 MWEarly stageWatch
Mesa Wind, 250 MWEarly stageLow

Example: Hollow Creek Solar, Virginia

Proactively monitor and act on permitting risks in 4 steps.

Understand community sentiment around each project site, and act on it.

Open
Restricted
Moratorium
Data center

What has happened here before?

1)Understand the history of each county.

Example County, where Hollow Creek Solar is planned, remembers a drought, a plant accident fifteen years ago and a solar farm it turned down in 2023. Plynthworks surfaces the local history that will shape your hearing, each point with its source.

Who will vote on my permit?

2)Understand what each commissioner cares about.

Plynthworks reads each commissioner's voting record and public statements, and turns hours of public comment into the few concerns most likely to come up at your hearing.

Will I see opposition coming?

3)Be alerted before upcoming risks become real.

Opposition leaves a trail long before the vote. Plynthworks watches the county behind each project and flags new signals while there is still time to respond.

What do I do Monday?

4)Proactively engage the right people and be prepared with Plynthworks.

For each project you get a short list of who to meet and what to address, with the record behind each step.

Shared with a few people I know. Feedback welcome.

Plynthworks.

Your community intelligence platform for project development.

A personal project, feedback welcome

Scroll to see how

Why do projects die?

Every development project is decided by 3 people.

Do you know what they think?

Illustrative example

Which of my projects is at risk?

Permitting is the one risk you can't control.

Plynthworks looks at the permit risk of each project in your pipeline, county by county.

Your pipeline6 projects, 1.19 GW

Kestrel Solar + storage, 240 MWLate stageLow
Highline Wind, 300 MWEarly stageLow
Hollow Creek Solar, 120 MWPermittingHigh
Caliche Storage, 100 MWLate stageWatch
Bluestem Solar, 180 MWEarly stageWatch
Mesa Wind, 250 MWEarly stageLow

Illustrative example

Example: Hollow Creek Solar, Virginia

Proactively monitor and act on permitting risks in 4 steps.

Understand community sentiment around each project site, and act on it.

Open
Restricted
Moratorium
Data center

Illustrative example

What has happened here before?

1)Understand the history of each county.

Illustrative example

Who will vote on my permit?

2)Understand what each commissioner cares about.

Plynthworks reads each commissioner's voting record and public statements, and turns hours of public comment into the few concerns most likely to come up at your hearing.

Board of commissioners

Commissioner A

Likely support

Supports voluntary land leasesCites tax base

Commissioner B

Likely oppose

No near homesFarmland first

Commissioner C

Swing

Swing: water and fireAsks for setbacks

Dots: last four project votes. Filled is yes.

Public comment, last 12 months

Water41 mentions

Property values27 mentions

Battery fire risk19 mentions

Farmland loss15 mentions

Views and glare8 mentions

Illustrative example

Will I see opposition coming?

3)Be alerted before upcoming risks become real.

Opposition leaves a trail long before the vote. Plynthworks watches the county behind each project and flags new signals while there is still time to respond.

Watching: Hollow Creek Solar

Hearing in 12 weeks

Week 10
Alert
Letter to the editor
Local news
Week 8
Alert
Opposition website registered
Domain records
Week 6
Alert
Petition launched
Public petition
Week 2
Alert
Agenda item posted
County agenda

Week 0: county hearing

Illustrative example

What do I do Monday?

4)Proactively engage the right people and be prepared with Plynthworks.

For each project you get a short list of who to meet and what to address, with the record behind each step.

Shared with a few people I know. Feedback welcome.

Engagement plan: Hollow Creek Solar

4 actions

Meet Commissioner C on water use before filing
Address battery fire safety with the fire chief
Host an open house in the north of the county
Answer the 2023 denial: larger setbacks from homes

How it works

What it reads.

The reading a good community engagement lead would do before a hearing, done for each county, with the sources shown.

Read the record

Public meetings, ordinances and local news for the counties around each project.

Structure it

Votes, statements and concerns are linked to the people and places they belong to, with sources.

Act on it

A view of each project's county: who decides, what matters, what is changing, and what to do next.

Sources

Every insight links back to the record it came from, so you can check it before you rely on it.

Meeting records and videoAgendas, minutes and hearing video from county boards and planning commissions.
OrdinancesZoning codes, siting rules, setbacks and moratoria, tracked as they change.
Project and grid queue dataPast approvals and denials, and what is queued for interconnection nearby.
Local newsCoverage, letters to the editor and opinion pieces that shape the hearing.
Environmental and incident recordsWater stress, drought history and past industrial incidents a community remembers.

FAQ

Questions

Anything else, just ask me.

A project I'm building to understand how county permit decisions get made, and whether the public record can show which way a hearing is likely to go. I'm sharing it with a few people I know in renewable development. The county, commissioners and projects shown on this page are a fictional example.