Land Screening searches an entire state against your full constraint profile and hands back a shortlist of the sites carrying the lowest permitting and interconnection risk. Set your constraint profile once, pick the state or draw the region, then screen.
Land Screening searches a million hectares against your full constraint profile and hands back a shortlist of the sites carrying the lowest permitting and interconnection risk. Set your constraint profile once, pick the state or draw the region, then screen.
Nikolai Bjørnsen, Head of Project Development at Solkraft Sør, joined Even Kvelland, Chief Commercial Officer and co-founder at Glint Solar, to walk through how a core team of three runs 24 solar and battery projects in active development, 265 GWh of annual production in the pipeline, across eight municipalities in Agder, Norway.
Italy seems like a dream for renewable energy development, but the alarm clock is about to go off. Digging into the realities of Italian utility-scale development is like reading a Mario Puzo novel: everything seems idyllic on the surface, then it gets peeled back, layer by layer, through twists and turns, until the surprising truth is revealed at the end.
Serving the grid means designing a project so that it takes stress off the network instead of adding to it. In practice it comes down to five things: where you site it, when it produces, what connection terms you accept, whether you share infrastructure that already exists, and what your inverters can do for system stability. Regulators are turning each of those from a nice-to-have into a condition of connection.
Germany's BESS grid connection applications jumped from around 400 GW at the end of 2024 to more than 720 GW by 2025. Only 78 GW have confirmed connection commitments. Here's what changed, and what it means for developers in 2026.
Photosol is one of France's leading solar producers, with close to 900 MWp in operation and 4.3 GWp under development across France, Italy, and Poland. Since adopting Glint Solar, the company has cut its site prospecting and analysis time by over 83%, taking site evaluation from around 30 minutes down to 5 to 10 minutes, and cut project delays by 20%.
Chint Solar is a European solar developer with more than 500 MWp of completed projects. Facing a heavy pre-permit evaluation workload split between engineering and outsourced teams, they moved site evaluation onto Glint Solar. The result: 2,000 engineering hours saved a year and faster expansion into new markets.
Why noise decides BESS permits: the dominant sources, TA Lärm's night-time bottleneck, and five moves to reduce risk before the acoustic report.
Turn Energy is a Swedish IPP building toward 1.5 GW of commissioned solar by 2028. Faced with a fragmented tool stack and late-stage risk discovery at every step of early development, they consolidated onto Glint Solar. The result: a tripled project pipeline, 20% lower development costs, and a 30% lift in project conversion rates.
In Germany, the wave of grid connection requests has run ahead of the rules. More than 720 gigawatts of requests have piled up with network operators, the privileging rules under §35 BauGB keep shifting, and noise has become a make-or-break constraint. The result is that time and serious capital can get committed to sites that were never going to qualify, with connection fees paid before anyone checks whether a project is permittable.
The job of bringing a renewable project to financing has always been bigger than the design. Find the site. Control the land, parcel by parcel. Get the right landowners, grid operators, and municipalities in the conversation. Track every agreement.
In Italy, preliminary development is where solar projects are won or lost. Landscape constraints, permitting pressure, and data scattered across disconnected tools mean weeks of work and meaningful capital can end up invested in land that was never going to qualify.
Germany's utility-scale battery storage market didn't just grow last year. It surged. Grid connection applications jumped from around 400 GW at the end of 2024 to more than 720 GW by 2025. Only 78 GW have confirmed connection commitments.
Hybrid is already the default for new utility-scale solar. The early question most developers are working on is what the right ratio should be between PV output, BESS power, and BESS capacity. In an era of scarce grid connection capacity, that ratio is the decision that defines a project's future.
In France, moving fast isn't enough if the foundations don't hold up. Between increasingly strict permitting, grid constraints, and technical reviews at every stage, the gaps between development, engineering, and operations are where time and money get lost.
Developing renewable energy projects in Italy is a complex challenge. The sheer volume of variables to consider, from urban planning regulations to regional and local specifications, puts significant pressure on timelines and budgets. In this scenario, access to reliable, updated, and integrated data from the very beginning is the true critical success factor.
Planning renewable energy projects in Germany is complex. A variety of factors come together with significant time and cost pressure. That can include regulatory frameworks, regional specifics, and technical requirements to name a few. Having access to reliable, well-integrated information early in the process is essential.
Getting stakeholders to say yes to a solar or storage project is rarely about the numbers alone. Landowners want to picture it. Communities want to know what they'll see from their kitchen window. Local planning authorities, especially for BESS, often have no reference point at all.
Pipeline visibility isn’t just a reporting problem. It’s a decision-making problem. In this session, Glint Solar walks through how developers are moving away from fragmented Excel tracking and into a centralized, real-time view of their project pipeline. The focus: faster decisions, better prioritization, and clearer communication across teams and stakeholders.
As renewable portfolios scale, one problem shows up fast: project data starts living everywhere. To fix this, we're excited to announce Project API!
For Aurinkokarhu, a developer specializing in solar and battery storage, the ability to pivot from pure-play solar to Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and hybrid projects has been the key to maintaining a robust project pipeline.
France’s updated energy roadmap, the Programmation pluriannuelle de l’énergie (PPE3), sets a clearer direction for how the country plans to balance electrification, energy sovereignty, and decarbonisation through 2035.
Charts is designed to help renewable energy developers visualize their pipeline, track project progress, and report with confidence, without relying on disconnected spreadsheets, folders, and manual reporting processes.
Advantage Renewables is a U.S.-based developer of utility-scale solar and battery storage projects with a mission to deliver clean, American-made energy through high-quality, responsibly sited projects,
Here’s a hard truth: The most expensive mistakes in solar development aren’t made during construction - they happen years before the first panel is installed.For solar developers, the stakes couldn’t be higher. With skyrocketing land costs, grid complexities, long project timelines, and increasing competition, every decision counts.
At Glint Solar, we believe accuracy shouldn’t be reserved for the final stages of a solar project. It should guide decisions from the moment you start looking at a site. That’s why we’re announcing a new integration: Glint Solar now supports SolarAnywhere as an irradiance and weather data source.
Agri-PV, also known as agrivoltaics or dual-use solar, is becoming one of the most promising innovations in utility-scale solar development. By combining solar energy production with ongoing agricultural use on the same land, Agri-PV provides a compelling solution to one of the industry’s biggest constraints: access to land.
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Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are fast becoming one of the most critical enablers in utility-scale energy development. Whether deployed alongside solar or as standalone infrastructure, BESS helps developers unlock project viability in areas facing curtailment, congestion, or limited grid headroom.
DVP Solar, a pioneering force in the development of large-scale photovoltaic solar projects, has always been driven by a commitment to innovation and efficiency. With over 3 GW of projects under development across Europe and Latin America, DVP Solar embraced Glint Solar’s platform to supercharge its project qualification process.
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Are you a solar developer striving for precision and efficiency from the beginning of your development process? Look no further than Glint Solar—a powerful tool used by teams that want the best possible starting point for their projects, minimizing risks early and optimizing for accurate permit-approved projects.
Landowner conversations are a critical step in every utility-scale solar project. But when it comes to Agri-PV, where solar infrastructure and agriculture must co-exist on the same land, those conversations get more complex, and more consequential.
The Finnish government has set a bold goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035 and to become carbon-negative thereafter. As a result, the race is on to identify the best solar sites and develop them as efficiently as possible. So what should solar developers know about the Finnish grid system?
Picture this: you’re a solar developer knee-deep in the pre-permit grind. You’re scouring maps for sites close to a substation, wrestling with slope and environmental data to avoid a design disaster, and trying to whip up visuals that won’t make landowners’ eyes doubt over your plan.
The power grid plays a crucial role as the world shifts towards renewable energy, but what are the obstacles in this transition?
The market has fundamentally shifted. Our role has evolved from optimizing yield to providing the data and foresight developers need to ensure project bankability despite financial headwinds.
In France, developers must prove fields deliver 90% of their original crop yield while keeping solar coverage below strict limits. This webinar shines a light on how policies like these are shaping real projects and what developers need to know to succeed.
Today we're thrilled to announce an $8 million Series A funding round led by Smedvig Ventures with participation from Momentum, Futurum Ventures, and Antler!
As global energy demands rise and governments push for renewable energy solutions, Agri-PV has gained traction as a viable approach to balancing food production with solar energy generation.
Discover the Nordic grid system's intricacies and seize solar prospects across Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland in this comprehensive guide.
Every solar or storage project starts with the same basic question: “Can we build here?”
A shift to grid-first prospecting is helping developers move faster, avoid dead ends, and align internal teams around buildable sites from day one.
At Glint we know that the road from concept to construction isn't linear. One of the most underestimated and frequently project-stalling challenges? Noise concerns.
Battery energy storage is reshaping how utility-scale projects are planned, screened, and built. As interconnection queues grow longer and solar-only designs face economic headwinds, BESS is becoming a key lever for improving grid access, stabilizing returns, and meeting permitting expectations.
This article breaks down how developers are accelerating early-stage BESS design using smarter workflows and integrated tools.
