# Run a feasibility study before you spend Draw the boundary or attach the documents. Noda checks the grid, the land, protected areas and permits, lists each risk with its source, then gives you go, hold or stop. ## Draw a boundary, get a verdict Noda checks what already stands on the land, the grid, protected areas and the setback rules, then answers go, hold or stop. The example: a 90 MW wind boundary in Vaslui, Romania. **The report names its gaps.** In the example, the run had no land-book extract, and the grid operators publish no capacity figure for each substation. The site has no met mast, so both wind figures come from models. **A verdict is a draft your team checks.** The grid operator confirms capacity and the land registry confirms the land. In the example, the land-book extract takes 5 to 15 working days, and Delgaz Grid gives a written capacity answer, free, within 15 days. ## How Noda checks what the grid can take For each risk, Noda goes to the source that settles it and records each step, failed tries included. The example: the grid capacity published for the site’s zone. 17 steps, 14 minutes 1. **Look for the grid capacity map.** Two searches, in Romanian 2. Dead end: The map page’s text. No zone figures. Tried another way. 3. **Find the grid zone for the site.** Vaslui is in zone J, with six other counties 4. **Download the map’s page code.** It loads one script for the map 5. Dead end: A quick search of the script. No match. Read the code itself. 6. **Read the map script.** It fills in the figures for the year you pick 7. **Trace where the figures come from.** One function loads them all from a file 8. Dead end: Seven guessed file addresses. None found. Used the code’s path. 9. **Download the data file behind the map.** 15 KB: capacity and queue for each zone 10. **Check zone J against its queue.** 1,875 MW available in 2026, 4,717 MW queued 11. **Put it in the report, with source and date.** **Result.** 1,875 MW of connection capacity published for zone J in 2026, against 4,717 MW in the zone’s queue. Transelectrica’s capacity map data, read 1 Oct 2026. The verdict is stop for 90 MW on this boundary. A 24 to 36 MW extension to the existing wind farm could still work. ## Read the report, see the work Each finding keeps its source and date. Pick a highlight on the page or in the list to see how Noda got that line. ## Use cases for risk screening Each one opens Noda with a first message you can change before you send it. - **Turn notes into risks and checks** Turn site notes into a list of risks and next checks - **Review project evidence** Read an offer, permit or contract: costs, deadlines, gaps - **Compare grid connection options** Nearby lines and substations, ranked with the evidence - **Map the permit path** Each approval, who gives it and in what order ## Questions about risk screening Something else? Write to [hello@noda.energy](mailto:hello@noda.energy). ### What is the difference between a screening and a solar farm feasibility study? A full feasibility study is the paid, detailed work: grid studies, surveys, yield and cost. A Noda screening is the desk study that comes before it and answers one question: is this site worth that money? Noda checks the grid connection options, protected areas and other constraints, land use, terrain and the permits you will need, then gives a go, hold or stop with the evidence behind it. ### How does Noda check grid capacity near a site? Noda finds the lines and substations nearby and ranks them by voltage, distance and route. It reads what the operators publish about capacity and the queue. Where a substation's free capacity is unpublished, Noda estimates it and shows its working. The grid operator confirms capacity. ### What is a red flag review of a renewable energy project? A fast first pass over the documents behind a project, before an LOI or a full technical due diligence. It looks for what could stop the project or lower its value: a grid offer that differs from the permit, parcels missing from the lease, approvals about to expire, missing annexes. Noda drafts this list, with the page or clause behind each risk and the check that would close it. ### Which documents can Noda review? The documents a project comes with: the grid connection approval or offer, the urban planning certificate, surface-rights and lease contracts, siting permits, and environmental decisions and studies. PDFs and scans both work. Noda checks versions, parties and annexes first, then traces costs, deadlines, conditions and obligations back to the text. ### How does Noda map the permit path? For your location, technology and size, Noda lists each approval the project still needs, the authority that issues it and the order they depend on, with a source for each. It keeps legal deadlines apart from typical processing times, and it marks where the local authority must confirm a requirement. ### Is a Noda screening a signed study? A Noda screening is a draft for your team to check. It tells you which sites deserve the cost of a study or a grid application. Lenders still need their independent engineer, and the grid operator confirms capacity. ## Which site should Noda check? Ask in your own words. You can attach a PDF, KML, GeoJSON, CSV or Excel file. Have an account? [Log in](https://app.noda.energy/login) --- This is the Markdown version of https://noda.energy/screening (Solar feasibility study and permitting checks | Noda). Run a desk feasibility study on a solar, wind or BESS site before you spend. Noda checks grid, land, protected areas and permits and gives go, hold or stop. More: [all pages](https://noda.energy/llms.txt) · [API and developer docs](https://noda.energy/docs) · [contact](https://noda.energy/contact)