For Landowners
Open ground near a substation is the scarcest input in this business. Not sunlight, which falls on everyone, and not capital, which is abundant and bored. Land with a wire running past it. We lease it on long terms at fixed rent, and we pay for every study it takes to find out whether yours qualifies. If it does not, we say so, which in this industry passes for eccentricity.
What We Build on Land
One to five megawatts, interconnected at distribution voltage, serving subscribers across the utility's territory who could never host panels themselves. Most of our states buy this output under long programme contracts, which is precisely what lets us pay a fixed rent for twenty years and sleep soundly.
Larger arrays selling into a utility offtake or a merchant market. These want scale, a nearby transmission or sub-transmission tie, and a landowner who is not in a hurry. The interconnection queue moves at its own pace; the option payments do not wait for it.
Storage is sited for the grid, not for the sun. A few level acres beside the right substation can carry a project that two hundred acres in the wrong place cannot, and a battery's footprint is compact enough to leave most of a parcel exactly as it was.
What We Look For
None of these is a hard rule, and grid conditions decide more than acreage ever will, but the parcels that work tend to share a few traits.
The Ground Goes On Being Ground
Panels sit on posts driven into the earth, not on a slab. Sheep have grazed beneath arrays since the first ones went up in Bavaria, and the arrangement suits both parties: the flock takes the shade and the forage, the project gets its vegetation managed without a mower. Pollinator plantings between and beneath the rows are now routine in several of our states and occasionally carry an incentive of their own.
Nothing is poured and nothing is paved. The array is a tenant on the surface of the parcel, and the character of the ground underneath it does not change for the life of the lease.
How It Works
An address or parcel number, the acreage, and anything you know about the wires nearby. You get a straight answer, including "no," rather than a sales funnel with your name on it.
Grid capacity, land characteristics and the programme economics of your jurisdiction, assessed at our desk and at our cost. Nothing signed, nothing owed.
If the parcel works on paper we sign an option, and you are generally paid from that day forward. Surveys, environmental and cultural studies, interconnection applications and permits are funded entirely by us.
The option converts to a long-term lease at fixed rent with scheduled escalations. We build, operate, insure and maintain the project for the life of the lease, at no cost to you.
The Fine Print, in Plain Language
