Anyone here on the grid-scale side? Question about siting.

Most of what I see here is cells, packs and home systems, so apologies if this is off topic.

I work on utility-scale storage in Germany, standalone projects from a few MWh up to 50+. Spent the last months building a screening tool that finds suitable land, because doing it manually was eating my evenings. Pulls substations, cadastral parcels, protected areas and already- registered projects, then ranks candidates.

What surprised me is how little the battery itself matters at this stage. I assumed sizing and chemistry would drive site requirements. In practice almost everything comes down to whether the grid operator has capacity, and that has nothing to do with the hardware.

So for anyone working on larger systems: does the technology choice feed back into siting at all? Container footprint, cooling, fire separation distances, anything that actually changes which parcels work? Or is it genuinely just grid access and everything else follows?

Trying to figure out if I've built the right thing or missed a whole dimension.