SEAL Honors the Top Leaders in Sustainability, EHS and CSR
October 21, 2026– SolaREIT’s co-founder and CEO, Laura Pagliarulo has been honored with a 2026 SEAL Sustainability Leadership Award. The ESG leadership award (Environmental, Social, and Governance) honors the top executive leaders in Sustainability, EHS (Environment, Health and Safety), and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). SolaREIT™, the leading solar and battery storage real estate investment company, provides financial solutions to clean energy developers and landowners that allow them to monetize land and lease value, free up capital, or reduce lease costs.
“Delivering a sustainable future depends on actually building it. For SolaREIT, that means providing flexible capital solutions to the developers behind clean energy projects. Since we founded SolaREIT a little more than five years ago, we’ve financed the real estate under more than 4.6GW of clean energy projects, representing over $7.5 billion in project value. I’m incredibly proud of what we’ve accomplished, and I look forward to continuing to build that future with our development partners. I’m grateful to SEAL and I share this honor with the SolaREIT team, whose work earns our partners’ trust every day,” said Laura Pagliarulo, co-founder & CEO, SolaREIT.
In addition to Laura, SEAL honored five other leaders:
The honorees were chosen from a record number of peer/employee nominations, the 2026 Sustainability Leader Award Winners were selected based on their track record of achieving ESG goals, leadership skills, and ability to attract and retain talent. Additionally, Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS)-like data points were incorporated along with each executive’s specific accomplishments.
About SolaREIT™
SolaREIT™, based in Virginia, is an innovative renewable energy real estate company focused on delivering financing solutions for solar and battery energy storage developers. SolaREIT, a minority and women-owned business, was founded in 2020 as a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) by clean energy industry veterans with a proven track record in finance, project development, real estate, and community solar. The team is passionate about renewable energy and believes that solar and battery energy storage land financing plays a critical role in expanding the clean energy economy.
About SEAL Awards
SEAL (Sustainability, Environmental Achievement & Leadership) Awards is an environmental advocacy organization that honors leadership through our corporate sustainability awards & environmental journalism awards while funding research and pursuing our own environmental impact campaigns.
The SEAL Awards core pillars are: