Built for Battery Energy Storage Systems. Your Powered Land Partner.
Battery energy storage systems (BESS) are entering a true scale era. SEIA forecasts that by 2030 the U.S. storage market will exceed ~47 GW / 110 GWh of annual installations, and cumulative installed utility-scale BESS will reach just under ~500 GWh. That pace of build turns storage development into a portfolio execution challenge, focused on securing sites, moving through interconnection and permitting, and keeping enough liquidity to advance multiple projects in parallel. Land financing provides strategic capital that helps BESS developers scale without letting site control consume the balance sheet.
How Leading BESS Developers Are Turning Land Into a Strategic Advantage
- Use real estate capital to win the right sites (and hold them). Large storage projects require disciplined site control—often near substations, transmission, and load—while timelines and queue milestones play out.
- Keep liquidity moving across the pipeline. Financing land separately helps preserve corporate cash for the real schedule-drivers: interconnection studies/deposits, engineering, permitting, early procurement strategy, and commercialization workstreams.
- Scale in parallel, not sequentially. Portfolio-level land capital supports multiple BESS sites at once—so one project’s delay doesn’t freeze the next one behind it.
- De-risk portfolio outcomes. When projects shift (as they do), spreading land capital across a portfolio helps smooth timing risk and maintain a steadier path to COD.
Deep BESS Experience. Institutional Discipline. Fast Closings.
- Project diversity. Whether you’re developing behind-the-meter (BTM) projects near load or front-of-the-meter (FTM) utility-scale sites near transmission, SolaREIT may finance the land position—from small footprints to utility scale BESS projects—so site control doesn’t constrain deployment.
- Benefit from a proven first-mover playbook. As a pioneer in land financing for BESS projects, SolaREIT has transacted on more deal structures, diligence nuances, and market conditions, allowing us to move faster, underwrite smarter, and ensure an efficient closing process.
- Speed to close. Our process is built to move on development timelines—efficient diligence, clear requirements, and repeatable documentation—so you may convert a land position into liquidity quickly and keep interconnection, permitting, and procurement workstreams on schedule.
Capital Solutions in Action
Land Purchase
Lease Purchase
Land Loan
Three Steps from First Conversation to Closing
Pricing
Share the basic details of your lease and project. We’ll move quickly to provide a price and term sheet, with no lengthy intake process and no unnecessary back-and-forth.
Contract
Our contracts are shaped by years of experience and hundreds of closed transactions. As off-the-shelf standardized documents, they are clear, fair, and built to avoid surprises. This is one of the most consistent things landowners tell us they appreciated about working with SolaREIT™.
Closing
Our streamlined closing process is designed to get you to your payment in as little as 30 to 45 days.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does SolaREIT have a minimum or maximum MW limit for BESS projects?
ExpandNo. SolaREIT is equipped to handle projects of virtually any size; you won’t have to worry about it as a limiting factor.
Does SolaREIT do behind-the-meter (BTM) and front-of-the-meter projects (FTM)?
ExpandYes. SolaREIT provides capital solutions for both contexts of BESS projects.
Ready When You Are
SolaREIT partners with BESS developers who are ready to turn site control into strategic capital. Tell us about your project and we’ll move quickly to identify the right solution.