Whether you're a developer navigating the interconnection queue, an investor evaluating energy portfolios, or a regulatory affairs professional looking for better tools — we want to hear from you.
GridGate is in active development. We're onboarding a small group of design partners — energy developers in the MISO (Midcontinent) queue who want political and regulatory intelligence that doesn't exist anywhere else. Design partners help shape the product and get preferred pricing at launch.
We'll respond within 24 hours. If you're a good fit as a design partner, we'll schedule a 30-minute call to understand your interconnection challenges and show you what we're building.
Mid-size energy developers (solar, wind, storage, or hybrid) with active projects in the MISO interconnection queue who want better visibility into political and regulatory risk. We're especially interested in teams managing 5+ projects across multiple states.
Fill out the form below and we'll get back to you within one business day.
GridGate provides political and regulatory intelligence for energy developers navigating the interconnection process — the multi-year procedure required to connect a new power project (solar, wind, storage, etc.) to the electrical grid. We track regulatory commission dynamics, predict voting patterns, monitor community sentiment, and model queue dropout risk. Think of it as a political intelligence layer on top of the engineering analysis that existing tools provide.
Those platforms focus on the engineering side of interconnection — grid capacity analysis, cost modeling, and site screening based on electrical infrastructure. They're valuable tools. GridGate focuses on the non-engineering factors that kill most projects: political risk, regulatory changes, and community opposition. We don't replace those tools — we fill the gap they leave open.
When someone wants to build a new power plant or connect a large energy load (like a data center) to the electrical grid, they have to apply to their regional grid operator and go through a review process. The "queue" is the backlog of all projects waiting for approval. In the U.S., more than 2,600 gigawatts of capacity are currently waiting — that's more than double the country's total installed generation. The process takes 5+ years on average and the majority of projects never make it through.
MISO stands for the Midcontinent Independent System Operator. It's the organization that manages the electrical grid across 15 U.S. states, primarily in the Midwest and South — from Montana and the Dakotas down through Louisiana and Mississippi. MISO is one of several regional grid operators in the U.S. (others include PJM, CAISO, ERCOT, and SPP). GridGate is launching with MISO coverage first because of our team's deep relationships in that market.
Design partners get early access to the platform as it's built, direct input into product features and priorities, and preferred pricing when GridGate launches commercially. In return, we ask for regular feedback sessions and honest assessment of what's valuable and what's not. We're looking for partners who have real skin in the game — active projects in the queue where this intelligence would change how they make decisions.
GridGate is currently in pre-launch development. We're working with design partners who help shape the product. There's no self-serve trial yet — if you're interested, fill out the form above and we'll set up a call to discuss whether a partnership makes sense for your team.
We aggregate data from public regulatory filings, state utility commission dockets, election records, FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) filings, state secretary of state databases, local news publications, town hall and county board meeting records, social media, and the grid operators' own public queue data. All sources are publicly available — we provide value by aggregating, structuring, and analyzing information that would otherwise require a team of analysts to track manually.
Our roadmap includes expansion to PJM (Mid-Atlantic and Ohio Valley) and CAISO (California) as our next priority markets, with the goal of reaching full U.S. coverage over time. Expansion timing depends on customer demand and our ability to build robust data pipelines for each jurisdiction. If you operate in a specific region and want coverage, let us know — customer demand is the single biggest factor in our prioritization.