Pivvot Siting's powerful search engine enables you to locate prospective sites based on specific criteria. Start with a center location and configure your siting criteria to find sites of interest.
Choose a Center Location
Before you can locate prospective sites you'll need to identify a location from which to begin your search. You can choose from from Pivvot features or manually define your Center Location.
Below is a list of possible Center Locations:
- Pivvot Layers
- County
- Substation(s)
- Powerlines
- User Defined Location
- Drop a point on the map
- Draw a line on the map
- Draw a polygon on the map
- Upload a KML/KMZ file
Pivvot Layers
There are two ways to find the county, substation(s), or powerline you'd like to use as a Center Location.
- Map Search
- Click to Search
Map Search
To locate a county or substation(s) Map search:
- Click the Map Search icon next to the Siting Criteria search panel
. Slide the Limit to center location results slider to the right. - Search for a county name. The county and all of the substations in the county will be displayed.
- Choose the map point icon to add the county or substation as the center location.
NOTE: The green section will display Google Places to what you see in Google Maps. This means you can search for a common place or street address. You can also search for a lat/long coordinate.
Click to Search
1. Click on an energy infrastructure feature on the map such as an existing substation or powerline
2. Select the Center Location icon next to the substation name in the search panel
3. To add a second substation to your search, click on a substation on the map. In the search results panel, click the plus/minus icon next to the substation to add it to your center locations.
Note: The ability to prospect around multiple features is limited to substations found in the Pivvot Substation layer.
User Defined Location
1. Choose a point, line, polygon as your center location. Or, upload a KML/KMZ file.
Configure Siting Criteria
Once you set your center location, you need to configure your siting criteria in the siting search panel. To configure your siting criteria consider the variables you are interested in when looking for a site.
Below are some examples of criteria settings for different scenarios.
When choosing parcel type, you have the choice of Smart Parcel or Tax Map. Smart Parcels are a curated dataset from Pivvot that is an aggregated tax map based on land owner opportunity. Tax map parcels are the parcels that are accessible through the county.
Substations and Powerlines
To configure the KV capacity of the substations and powerlines you would like to use as siting criteria, check the box next to substations, powerlines, or both. The cog wheel icon will turn red to indicate there is further configuration needed. Click on the cog wheel icon to open the subtype configuration screen. Move the available sub types to the selected sub types column to prospect for sites near this type of substation or powerline.
Note: there are many ways to locate sites. The following examples are to get you started.
Locate a site from one to 20 acres in size, within Lincoln County, Oklahoma, near a substation.
Locate a site that is at least 100 acres, near power lines.
Locate a site that is at least 150 acres, within two miles of a substation.
Locate a site of at least 500 acres within two miles of a specific power line.
Find sites of 700 acres or more around a specific point on the map close to high KV (70KV) and above powerlines
Locate all sites in a county based on owner name.
Once all variables are chosen, select Find Parcels.
You can edit and run your search again once you get your results.
Note: You can also run an Area of Interest (AOI) usable area search to search for usable area first and then select the parcels within that area. Using the AOI Search in Siting