{"id":64098,"title":"Paces - Siting and Due Diligence of Green Projects","tagline":"Paces is software for green infrastructure developers to identify the best places to build and manage their projects","body":"### **The Problem**\n\n[80% of](https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/transmission/lbnls-nationwide-interconnection-survey-has-good-news-and-bad-news-for-clean-energy) clean energy projects **developers** start never actually get built because most projects are started without deep due diligence on zoning and interconnection due to the cost of collecting that data. This means $17B worth of cancelled projects per year.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nPaces is software for green infrastructure developers to identify the best places to build and manage their projects.\n\nFirst we collect environmental, permitting, zoning, energy grid data from various different sources; then we analyze the data and use AI to identify the best places for developers to build their next projects. \n\n### **Our Vision**\n\nOur long term vision for Paces is for it to be the **go-to software platform to enable the climate positive development of every piece of land on earth**. With Paces:\n\n* Solar developers can find and track all the sites for their projects.\n* EV charging developers can easily get a ranked list of the best nearby sites to deploy their next 20 charging stations\n* Heavy energy users like Data Centers, Direct Air Capture and Hydrogen plants can find locations with excess electricity\n* Financial firms can evaluate the value and risks of green assets around the world\n\n### **About Us**\n\nPaces was founded by Charles and James in early 2022.\n\n* James is our CEO! He grew up on an organic farm in Ireland and across a 15 year tech career he was employee 1 at an Google acquired AI startup and has millions in career SaaS sales.\n* Charles is our CTO! He grew up in Beijing and completed a CS degree at Cornell. Before Paces, he led AI efficiency at Facebook AI and built [metrics to track power/carbon cost of AI models](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.00364.pdf).\n\n### **Contact Us**\n\nIf you are building in the physical worlds, such as solar, wind, battery storage, hydrogen, EV charging, real estate and data centers, please reach out to us at [team@paces.com!](mailto:team@paces.com)","slug":"Gfq-paces-siting-and-due-diligence-of-green-projects","created_at":"2022-06-27T16:38:09.514Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T03:31:06.737Z","total_vote_count":46,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gfq-paces-siting-and-due-diligence-of-green-projects","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":26662,"name":"Paces","slug":"paces","url":"https://paces.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a92cafe33d123a85f38886d7af1f5aa33cbfd033.png","batch":"Summer 2022","industry":"Industrials","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Proptech","Climate","Energy","Automation"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/26662"}}