A breakthrough, quantitative read on the posture of every U.S. jurisdiction toward large-scale development — analytical intelligence before capital commits, not after.
Every siting decision is a bet on how a jurisdiction will behave. Jurisdiction Watch scores that behavior — regulatory climate, permitting record, grid readiness, water availability, community response, incentives — and keeps the score current as conditions change. The result is a map of where development is welcome, where it is contested, and where the picture is still forming.
An analytical framework built from public records, direct primary-source verification, and structured inference. Every score carries its completeness grade and grain — nothing is presented as more certain than the evidence supports.
The composite read on how a jurisdiction leans toward large-scale development. It draws on every dimension of the evidence base — regulatory climate, permitting behavior, power and grid readiness, community response, and incentives — and resolves them into a single, comparable posture score.
The nine-tier composite on a 100-point Faraday Scale: Power, Community, Water, Network, Environmental, Regulatory, Incentives, Labor and Real estate / site, each read from sourced attributes and weighted into one comparable suitability score. A separate completeness grade shows how much of the evidence base is populated, so you can tell 'strong' from 'strong, but thinly evidenced.'
The measure of facility and pipeline density — where development activity is already concentrated versus where it is only beginning to emerge. It puts posture in context: a favorable jurisdiction with no activity reads very differently from a favorable one that is already building. Published at state and county grain.
The measure of where a jurisdiction is headed. Built from the windows we actually hold — utility capital investment 2020–2025, grid build activity in 2026, and the 2026 posture series — JTS publishes the direction of each trajectory attribute with its evidence label. Horizons extend only as data lands.
Jurisdiction Watch scores every U.S. jurisdiction and 200 countries worldwide — and the dataset is alive, not archival. Scores update as jurisdictions act.
The live posture map is open. Browse every U.S. state and county, its composite score, and the completeness of the evidence behind it.
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