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Specializing in GIS-based site acquisitions for utility scale solar power plants in the Southwest.
Commercial Real Estate Advisors
Commercial Real Estate Advisors
We help our clients to rapidly growtheir development pipeline.
GIS-based site acquisitions for utility scale solar power plants in the Southwest.
Bridging the gap between real estate and emerging alternative energy technology.
GIS coverage throughout the Southwest
Experience in negotiating solar deals.
The Convergence of the Solar Industry
and Real Estate
The rapidly evolving world of alternative
energy has significant real estate
requirements, and yet the real estate
industry is generally ill-equipped to handle
the needs of the growing number of
alternative energy developers. We know
this because when we got involved in our
first solar deal, we didn’t fully understand
how to lend our real estate experience to
the deal.
It was only after a lot of hard work that we
began to understand the requirements of
our solar clients, and also understand the
value that we can add to their emerging
businesses. After thousands and thousands
of acres of negotiated deals, we now realize
that it’s as important for us to provide our
real estate transactional expertise for the
benefit of our clients as it is for us to
understand their business needs.
Solar deals have their own quirks. There is
typically a required option period which
must be negotiated, as well as varying
degrees of water requirements. There are
environmental issues to consider along with
access to utility infrastructure. And in the
end you have a value judgment: Does the
price of the land make the purchase an
actual deal?
One of the things that has made us effective
in doing site acquisition work has been our
internal Geographic Information System
(GIS). We built our GIS before we knew that
there would ever be a need to do solar site
selection work, but our GIS has nonetheless
been extremely helpful in locating sites for
our clients. There are a number of filters
that are required in order to find a suitable
solar site and our GIS does most of the work
for us.
As this industry continues to emerge and
mature, our Solar Acquisition Group will be
there, assisting clients with site selection
and putting deals together. The solar
industry is currently in a development phase
and we have learned that developers are
only as good as their development pipeline.
So we’re here to help clients grow their
solar development pipeline.
Commercial Real Estate Advisors
ALL AVAILABLE LAND
GIS-Based Site Selection Filters
Land Ownership Topography Access to Transmission Solar Insolation Land Use
Filtered Potential Deals
Sperry Van Ness Negotiation Filters
Property Pricing Terms of Sale Option Periods Option Payments Due Diligence Periods
Site to Acquire
Our Process
Commercial Real Estate Advisors