Securing capacity is now one of the biggest bottlenecks in project development — and the pressure is only growing.
On April 9th, LevelTen Energy hosted a webinar introducing Capacity+, our suite of tools and services designed to help buyers and sellers of carbon-free accredited capacity resources find each other — and transact — faster.
If you missed it, the recording is available now. Here's a quick look at what we covered.
What Is Capacity+?
Capacity+ connects buyers and sellers of accredited capacity resources through a standardized, transparent process — leveraging LevelTen's network of 1,000+ credentialed clean energy developers across North America.
Whether you're a data center operator trying to accelerate interconnection, a powered land developer building out a site, a utility managing resource adequacy, or a developer looking to monetize your capacity attributes, Capacity+ is built to support every stage of the process:
- Find Viable Sites — Buyers can canvas the market to identify colocation sites, generation projects with load queue positions, and deliverable capacity resources — all in one place.
- Due Diligence Availability of Uncontracted Capacity — Identify concentrations of uncontracted, deliverable, cost-competitive capacity around a target site/region with our capacity market intelligence product, or find an available capacity resource on our marketplace.
- Source "BYOC" Solutions for Utility Collaboration — Proactively solve capacity shortfalls with your utility and find flexibility in the load interconnection process by executing custom RFPs among LevelTen's network of 1,000+ wind, solar, storage, demand response, geothermal, hydro, and nuclear developers.
- Manage Costs with Capacity Hedges — In competitive retail markets, Capacity+ helps large energy buyers manage capacity auction clearing price risk with accredited capacity hedges.
What We've Already Done
Capacity+ isn't a concept — it's an active platform with real transactions behind it. In the webinar, we walked through three recent examples:
Finding the right site shouldn't be a marathon
An experienced data center operator's RFP surfaced colocation opportunities and suitable sites, sparing their land development team the burden of sifting through hundreds of unviable sites.
- 66 potential colocation sites evaluated across multiple states
- 26 GWs of potential colocated generation from wind, solar, and hybrid projects
- 1,000+ acres of available land per site for data center development
Capacity bottlenecks don't have to stall your interconnection timeline.
A prominent powered land developer needed accredited capacity to accelerate data center interconnection by several years. LevelTen launched a market-wide RFP that reached every relevant developer in the country — in four weeks.
- 600+ credentialed U.S. wind, solar, and storage developers reached
- 1.75 GW of nameplate capacity submitted, including demand response, storage, solar, and wind
- Pricing terms from 2–12 years, covering both operational and new-build assets
The right capacity, contracted — before the window closes. One of the largest data center companies needed accredited capacity from BESS assets to expand existing facilities. LevelTen delivered a deep, competitive pool of options and shepherded the process through to signed contracts.
- 10+ GWs of accredited capacity surfaced from BESS assets in a single ISO
- 500+ MWs of contracted accredited capacity from 3 BESS assets
- Structured through a bespoke Energy Service Agreement enabling customer self-supply
The Active Opportunities We Covered
The webinar also covered two live opportunities in SPP and MISO that were open at the time of recording.
LevelTen Capacity+ RFI — SPP & MISO Our open RFI invited developers to showcase their capacity opportunities to prospective buyers and receive anonymized market insights in return. The RFI has since closed, and early results are promising — stay tuned for more.
Deca/NPPD Capacity RFP — SPP LevelTen issued this RFP on behalf of Deca Companies and Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD), seeking accredited capacity in SPP with a preference for SPP North/Nebraska. Proposals were due April 15th.
