Applications

• Utility-scale generation and storage
• Corridor routing and siting
• Transmission interconnection
• Grid participation and queue entry
• Long-lived asset sequencing
   

These commitments create physical, regulatory, and capital lock-in that cannot be unwound without structural loss.

• Exploration access and drilling
• Basin and field development sequencing
• Resource extraction pathway commitment
• Geological model stabilization prior to disturbance
   

Subsurface commitments embed ignorance when learning requires irreversible disturbance.

• Offshore wind corridor selection
• Seabed mineral prospectivity
• Permanent marine infrastructure
• Jurisdictional and regime-level marine commitments
   

Marine systems introduce coupled exposure across physical, legal, and shared-capacity domains.

• Irreversible capital deployment
• Sequencing gates within multi-phase programs
• Portfolio concentration under shared exposure
• Escalation-driven commitment dynamics
   

Financial irreversibility often precedes physical irreversibility and may eliminate refusal credibility.

• Filing posture that forecloses alternatives
• Permit sequencing that hardens exposure
• Public commitments that eliminate reversal credibility 
• Participation in regime-level systems
   

Regulatory irreversibility often precedes physical build-out.

• Landing site fixation
• Power corridor establishment
• Communications architecture commitments
• Regime-level precedent creation
   

In frontier domains, irreversibility may propagate across institutional and geopolitical boundaries.