Our Approach - Aplomado Partners | Landowners & Developers

Solar Project Life Cycle

Solar developments typically require five to seven years to design, develop, and construct, and require many different constituents and capital providers to work together.

Aplomado partners with both developers/project sponsors and landowners during different phases of a solar project life cycle.

LANDOWNERS

While solar development often increases land values beyond non-solar use, it may take decades to realize the full value. We help landowners to accelerate the value of their solar lease by providing a substantial up-front payment.

Our flexible structure provides landowners the ability to retain ownership of land and can potentially provide a tax-efficient way of de-risking and diversifying net worth.
Our in-house team can work quickly to provide an indicative offer on land or ground lease, and help resolve any questions on title or ownership that might exist.
We can provide you an honest assessment of the potential for oil and gas development and potential future value based on the most recent drilling and production data. If there are producing oil and gas wells on the property, we can help you work with the oil and gas companies to make sure that solar and oil and gas operations can work together.

What we need from landowners to make an offer:

Copy of your solar lease

Most recent annual check/payment for your solar lease

Survey or summary of total number of acres under lease

If applicable, any oil or gas or other mineral agreements

SOLAR DEVELOPERS

We partner with solar developers by providing capital to procure the land needed for a solar project in the early development stages when capital is at highest risk. Rather than a cost to the developer, our return comes through long-term ownership of the land once the project is built. We are aligned with the developer with a common goal of project construction and have significant experience with negotiating solar lease agreements.

We Partner with Developers

Across the Development Timeline

EARLY STAGE LAND ACQUISITION

Aplomado purchases land that is key to the project when the current landowners are unwilling to sign a lease or purchase option.

Pre-NTP Purchase Option

Aplomado partners with developers early in the development life cycle and funds the annual option payments developers make to landowners. In return, we earn the right to purchase the land. We enter into a prenegotiated lease form with the developer.

NTP Purchase Option Funding

Aplomado partners with developers to provide certainty of purchase option funding and closing at competitive discount rates at NTP. We enter into a prenegotiated lease form with the developer.

THROUGH OUR EXTENSIVE LAND AND MINERAL ACQUISITION EXPERIENCE AND TECHNICAL OIL AND GAS EXPERTISE, OUR TEAM CAN HELP EVALUATE AND SOLVE YOUR MINERAL ISSUES

Our in-house land team can work with developers to assist with title analysis and contact mineral owners.
Our oil and gas technical team can perform an oil and gas review of the potential solar site to help developers better understand any potential oil and gas constraints and help find solutions.

What we need to get started:

Current status of land (lease option, purchase option, or in process)

Summary of all capacity studies, interconnection agreements, etc. to-date

Preferred lease or purchase option form