Site Commitment Screen

A project is about to secure land, enter exclusivity, or advance a location into development. As the project organizes around a location, the site becomes embedded before its constraints are fully understood.

Site decisions anchor engineering, permitting, and capital planning. Land position, regulatory posture, and internal alignment accumulate quickly. By the time weaknesses emerge, the ability to exit has diminished.

The screen evaluates whether the site can support commitment under real conditions. This includes:

• whether control is durable 
• whether the site is constructable 
• whether environmental or jurisdictional constraints will harden 
• whether early assumptions are already creating lock-in 

A formal determination is issued:

• Proceed: site commitment is admissible within defined bounds 
• Defer: site commitment should not yet occur
• Refuse: site commitment is not admissible under current conditions

Issued at the point of commitment. 

Site selection anchors engineering, permitting, infrastructure, and capital sequencing.

Once a site is selected, alternatives narrow and downstream decisions align around that location.

Subsurface conditions, regulatory constraints, environmental factors, and infrastructure feasibility may remain unresolved.

Different site realities can lead to materially different outcomes in cost, feasibility, and system performance.

Site decisions couple with grid access, infrastructure design, permitting pathways, and capital allocation.

If unresolved site conditions can still overturn feasibility or materially change system design, uncertainty remains decision-dominant.

Proceed only where site constraints are sufficiently bounded and alternatives are no longer decision-relevant. Otherwise defer.

Applies prior to site control, land acquisition, or location-based commitment.