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ENLAPA stands for Energy Land Lease and is still a young initiative.
Our goal: Make Investments in renewable energy easier and unleash its full potential. We connect the people who drive the energy transition.
The check evaluates your land against the same geodata that project developers use in their own pre-screening. It runs automatically and takes a few seconds.
Boundaries and size come from the official German cadastre. Adjoining parcels are combined, because what matters for viability is the usable total area rather than the number of individual plots.
Nature reserves, landscape protection areas, water protection zones, Natura 2000 sites, statutorily protected biotopes and flood zones. An overlap is not automatically a knock-out, but it changes effort and permitting timelines considerably.
Distance to the nearest realistically usable feed-in point and the responsible grid operator. In practice the grid connection is the most common reason an otherwise suitable site never gets built, and it is also the strongest single lever on the lease rate you can achieve.
Whether the site lies in a disadvantaged area (Benachteiligtes Gebiet) or in the corridors along motorways and railway lines. These designations decide whether a site can enter the German EEG auction, which often determines developer interest.
Soil index and official soil appraisal. High-grade soil raises the justification burden towards the municipality, lower-grade soil is generally easier to get approved for ground-mounted solar.
Slope and orientation. South-facing land has an advantage, while steep north-facing slopes and heavily fragmented terrain reduce either yield or buildable area.
No registration, no email address, and no one contacts you unless you trigger it yourself.
Enter an address or parcel number, or click the area directly on the map. Cadastral boundaries are applied automatically.
The area is checked against the cadastre, protected areas, grid data, soil appraisal and planning designations. This takes a few seconds.
You get a suitability assessment listing the criteria that speak for and against the site individually, rather than a single opaque score.
If you want to, you can then offer the land for lease. Only at that point are contact details collected, and only then do vetted project developers see your site.
The check reliably tells you whether your land is worth looking at more closely. It does not replace that closer look.
Yes. The check is free, there are no fees and no registration is required. You do not have to provide an email address or phone number to see the result.
For a ground-mounted solar project we generally need from around 5 hectares of contiguous land if the site qualifies under the German EEG, otherwise rather more. A battery storage site needs only 0.5 to 3 hectares, which is why smaller and awkwardly shaped plots can still be worthwhile.
Not for the check itself. A lease offer requires the owner's consent. Important for leased land: a tenant may not change the type of use without the owner's consent, so the owner decides on a solar project, not the current tenant.
For ground-mounted photovoltaics, typical lease rates in Germany run between 3,000 and 5,000 euros per hectare per year, rising to roughly 5,500 euros close to a grid connection point. Agrivoltaics ranges from 1,000 to 3,000 euros because farming continues. Battery storage is considerably higher at around 25,000 euros per hectare per year, but needs only a fraction of the area.
The land check uses official geodata and the same criteria a project developer applies in pre-screening, so it gives a solid indication of whether a site is worth pursuing. The final assessment of any location is always made case by case and includes factors that do not appear in geodata.
Not on our initiative. Contact details are only collected when you actively offer your land for lease. Without that step the check stays anonymous and your land is not visible to anyone.
As long as you only run the check, no personal data is collected. If you then offer your land, your details are passed exclusively to vetted project developers. The privacy policy sets out the specifics.
Yes. A running agricultural lease does not rule out a solar project, it determines the timing. For an open-ended lease, section 594a of the German Civil Code sets a notice period that effectively means up to two years of lead time. Since project development takes several years anyway, running the check early is worthwhile even while the land is leased.
The check itself takes seconds. Once you offer your land, ENLAPA contacts you. You sign the brokerage agreement with ENLAPA, and we then start the grid connection enquiry with the responsible grid operator — only after that do developer offers follow. Reaching a signed lease usually takes several months, and reaching construction can take several years depending on the permitting situation.
Yes. Battery storage is assessed against different criteria than photovoltaics: the area requirement is small at 0.5 to 3 hectares, but proximity to a high-capacity grid connection point is effectively decisive. Sites in commercial zones or directly beside substations are particularly attractive here.
