Routes: the legally buildable path, not just the shortest.
You give us two points, plant and substation or any A→B, and CapiGIS proposes the least-cost corridor taking into account real terrain, legal constraints, easements by voltage and the option to go underground. It compares alternatives and justifies every decision with its regulation. In under 2 hours.
Three routes, the constraints in plain sight, and every detour justified.
Real engine output: a 380 kV corridor to the Blumenthal substation. The direct route crosses 15.0 km of constraints; the optimal one cuts them to 2.5 km in exchange for 6.5 km more route. Where urban land requires it, the line goes underground (Teilverkabelung), with the extra cost per km compared and cited.
hover over constraints and crossings · demonstration route · real engine output (metrics + KMZ) · not a client project
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real elevation profile (satellite · 30 m) · line = overhead segment · cyan band = underground segment · each constraint with its regulation · cited in the dossier
A complete routing dossier, in hours.
3 routes compared
Optimal, direct and minimum-constraint, with a decision matrix.
Real elevation profile
Per-segment slopes and detours that genuinely skirt hillsides.
Legal basis per crossing
Every constraint cited with its rule, referenced by chainage (km markers).
Overhead vs underground CAPEX
Detour vs underground crossing, with cost multipliers and cited sources.
Easement and parcels
The easement strip on the cadastre: which parcels, how much area.
Connection with capacity
The destination substation chosen with official capacity data.
Whatever flows through a pipe or a cable, we route it the same way.
The least-cost engine is the same. What changes in each family are the constraint layers, the easement and the regulation. We say what is operational and what activates on request.
HV lines / gen-tie
Easement by kV, crossings with their rule, overhead vs underground CAPEX.
Gas pipelines
Easements by diameter and pressure, crossings with their legal basis. We know of no other pre-screening platform that offers this. (competitive analysis · Jul 2026)
Biomethane · grid connection
The tie-in to the injection point, same rule, smaller diameter.
Water / conveyance
Supply pipelines with pumping cost by elevation gain.
Green H₂ pipelines
We would route these as the H₂ regulatory framework matures. Part of the vision.
Three corridors, three geographies, one standard of rigor.
DESERT · 33 km
220 kV corridor on a desert coast. Over real terrain the route lengthens by 11% to skirt hillsides: a median slope of 2.8% against peaks of 68% on the straight line.
ALTIPLANO · 85 km
Crossing of populated areas and high-mountain watercourses: the narrative identifies each crossing with its legal requirement and the critical relief points.
PROTECTED AREA · 154 km
Reserve of permitted use. The engine distinguishes by legal category when a protected area can be crossed with authorization and when it has to be routed around, and cites the basis.
Indicative Phase 0 study. The final route requires detailed engineering, field survey and formal processing. Cases are described with anonymized geographies and are never client projects.
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