Conditional siting
Require special or conditional review above locally chosen load, water, generator, acreage, or expansion thresholds.
The fourteen-part local package
The instruments must be translated by local counsel into the authority available in the jurisdiction: zoning, permits, public land leases, utility proceedings, development agreements, tax agreements, bonds, trusts, or regional compacts.
Early public disclosure
Publish ownership, load, water, cooling, generators, noise, phasing, incentives, jobs, and infrastructure assumptions before approval.
Full incremental cost recovery
Use “growth pays for growth” across interconnection, grid, water, roads, emergency services, review, and stranded-asset exposure.
Hard physical envelopes
Put grid, water, noise, emissions, land, fire, safety, and curtailment limits ahead of monetary compensation.
Funded security
Require bankruptcy-resistant performance, remediation, emergency, and decommissioning security before energization.
Surplus-sharing agreement
Combine a nonavoidable base payment, full cost recovery, and a variable share of the verified surplus.
Universal floor plus top-ups
Give every eligible resident a broad benefit and add exact household-specific protection where modeled losses exceed it.
Host-zone upside
Give the most exposed neighborhoods an additional share beyond make-whole compensation.
Verified flexible load
Specify reducible megawatts, response time, duration, rebound, drills, public receipts, and nonperformance consequences.
Conditional incentives
Make each year’s tax benefit depend on current performance, with suspension and clawback for material breach.
Independent evidence and challenge
Use regulator-readable meters, signed public reports, rotating audits, resident challenges, and escrow during disputes.
Anti-speculation milestones
Expire or charge for dormant load reservations, inflated forecasts, stalled projects, and serial ownership transfers.
Protected rule review
Permit improvement while preserving senior claims, hard limits, reserve conservation, auditability, and appeal rights.
Regional minimum standards
Coordinate disclosure, cost, water, noise, bond, audit, and benefit floors to prevent a race to the bottom.
A 180-day adoption path
Days 0–30Adopt an interim disclosure and conditional-review resolution; retain independent technical and legal advisors.
Days 31–75Set physical envelopes, cost-allocation principles, security requirements, and public data standards.
Days 76–120Negotiate the surplus-sharing terms, resident floor, host-zone share, challenge process, and incentive clawbacks.
Days 121–180Launch a simulation-only Tau shadow pilot that publishes decisions and tests every rule before going live.
Boundary: this is a policy-design template for local adaptation. Tau can check whether declared rules were followed. Local legal authority, meter accuracy, causation, identity, consent, custody, and audit truth require separate verification by the jurisdiction.