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Local opposition kills clean energy projects and data centers. Heatmap Pro gives you the data, forecasts, and strategic insights to understand and navigate development risk.
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Permitting battles. Zoning moratoriums. Unruly county board meetings. Grid expansion is moving fast — but local resistance is moving faster. Developers, investors, and advocates are losing projects not because of bad economics, but because of bad local intelligence.
Heatmap Pro is the premier intelligence platform for community-supported development. Built by the team behind Heatmap News — named Adweek's Hottest Sustainability Media Brand (2024) and winner of the 2025 National Magazine Award for Service Journalism — Pro brings together expert journalism with predictive analytics and proprietary data.
Heatmap Pro brings all of Heatmap News' insights and intelligence down to the local level.
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Request a DemoThe most comprehensive database of clean energy and data center support and opposition in the U.S. — covering every county, state, region, and ISO. Updated daily using local news coverage, Heatmap sources, and regular phone calls to all 3,100+ U.S. counties.
Our model cross-references our opposition database with every operating renewables and data center project in the U.S. — analyzing hundreds of factors including polling, politics, demographics, economics, and environmental data — to generate an Opposition Risk Score for every U.S. county and zip code.
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Heatmap Pro doesn't just tell you where the risks are. It gives you the blueprint to build support. Instantly access deep, localized intelligence on any U.S. county:
Save hours of desktop research. Evaluate sites faster. Build data-driven grassroots campaigns with confidence.
Public opinion on data centers and energy technologies including solar, wind, battery storage, nuclear, geothermal and transmission. From Heatmap's exclusive national polling, modeled to the county and zip code level.
A comprehensive database of local ordinances and moratoriums affecting clean energy and data center development across every U.S. county and township. Every law categorized by whether it restricts or enables development — sourced through regular direct calls to all 3,100+ U.S. counties.
Heatmap Pro’s risk forecasting models quantify the likelihood of local opposition to data center and clean energy development. The models are trained on real-world project outcomes and local regulations, and incorporate hundreds of input variables from proprietary data sources.
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Built to solve one specific problem: quantifying and navigating local political risk
Deeper than anyone else, by design
Get access to deep polling, insights, and predictive modeling in every U.S. community for a year
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We’re committed to advancing the energy transition with superior outcomes through transparent data
Build data-driven community engagement campaigns to win project support
Site smarter, move faster and avoid costly surprises
Visualize risk across your portfolio and align your pipeline with favorable conditions
Quantify local political risk across portfolios and evaluate new opportunities with confidence
Build grassroots education and advocacy campaigns with the same intelligence tools developers use
Build data-driven community engagement campaigns to win project support
Site smarter, move faster and avoid costly surprises
Visualize risk across your portfolio and align your pipeline with favorable conditions
Quantify local political risk across portfolios and evaluate new opportunities with confidence
Build grassroots education and advocacy campaigns with the same intelligence tools developers use
Everything you need to make an informed decision
Instant Community Profiles
Comprehensive local intelligence for every U.S. community, on-demand
Proprietary Polling
Public sentiment data on clean energy and data centers across the U.S.
Dedicated Support Team
Real humans to answer questions, verify findings and provide custom data exports
Full Heatmap Journalism Access
Key project and policy alerts, exclusive interviews, in-depth project case studies and more
Exclusive Subscriber Briefings
Expert insights, policy deep dives and discussions with Heatmap journalists
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Discounts on Heatmap News advertising, event sponsorships and marketing opportunities
Join the developers, investors and advocates who rely on Heatmap Pro to navigate local opposition and prioritize geographies to get community-supported projects built.
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