Feasibly backed by York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority to unlock the region’s grid for renewables

We’re excited to announce that Feasibly has been selected for the Carbon Negative Challenge Fund, backed by the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority. The funding will see us bring AI-powered site assessment to energy planning across the region, helping renewable energy projects get off the ground faster.

York and North Yorkshire is running one of England’s most ambitious regional decarbonisation programmes, with a commitment to becoming carbon negative by 2040. The Carbon Negative Challenge Fund backs the projects and people making that happen, and we’re proud to be among them.

We’re backing the people behind our most pioneering projects, just like our partners at Feasibly, who will use our support to roll out their AI-powered platform to unlock our grid network for renewable energy.

Feasibly is an AI agent that runs deep geospatial analysis autonomously - querying live network datasets, cross-referencing planning and land classification layers, and reasoning across the full picture of what makes a site viable. It is agentic AI applied to the physical world: given a location, the agent works through analytical processes that usually take hours and returns a structured site assessment in minutes.

With this funding, we’ll specialise our assessments for groups in York and North Yorkshire, aligning them with the region’s Local Area Energy Plans and the strategic priorities set out by the Combined Authority. The result: stronger planning applications and clearer answers, earlier, for the communities developing sites in the region.

We’re especially excited about what this means for non-technical users. Developing a site usually means costly, time-consuming technical groundwork before you know if it’s viable. By putting site feasibility technology in the hands of community groups, councils, and landowners, we can lower the barriers to entry just as the renewables market expands to meet net zero.

That’s also why we spent time at the Community Energy England conference in Birmingham this summer, talking with groups across the country about what they actually need from tools like ours. Those conversations are shaping how we build, and this pilot is where they get put to work.