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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.
Offer your land for a solar or storage lease and receive offers directly from project developers in Germany. No intermediaries, free and without obligation.
Offering your land does not oblige you to lease it. You decide whether to grant a brokerage mandate after the review, you decide which developers you talk to, and you are not obliged to accept any offer. A lease only comes about when you sign it, and you sign it directly with the project developer.
For you as the owner this is free of charge: no listing fee, no running cost, no commission. How ENLAPA is remunerated instead is set out further down this page.
You submit your land, and from there a defined sequence begins that you can stop at any point. Here is what happens in which order, and how long each step realistically takes.
Your details on location, size and land type reach us and you receive a confirmation. From this point a contact person in land acquisition is responsible for your site and available for questions.
We assess the site for suitability. What matters is size and shape, the distance to a usable grid connection point, protected areas and the planning situation, plus whether municipal consent is realistic. We report the result back to you, including when it is negative.
If the review is positive, you give ENLAPA a brokerage mandate (Vermittlungsauftrag). This is a signed document instructing us to obtain lease offers for your land. Before that we do not act for you and show your site to no one. The mandate is free of charge for you.
After the mandate we start the grid connection enquiry (Netzanfrage) with the responsible grid operator to clarify how your site can be connected. The grid connection is the strongest single driver of a site's value, and only with that clarity can solid lease offers be obtained.
Your land is published on the ENLAPA marketplace and thereby made available to registered project developers. It does not go to an unlimited distribution list: the platform presents a site to only a set number of interested parties at a time.
Once the result of the grid enquiry is in, we obtain lease offers from vetted project developers for your land. Offers are submitted through the platform together with their financial terms, so you can put them side by side and compare them.
You sign the lease directly with the project developer, not with ENLAPA. From first contact to signature usually takes a few weeks to several months, depending on how quickly lease rate, term, index clause and dismantling security are settled.
The lease is usually signed before it is clear whether construction will be permitted. The developer needs the site contractually secured in order to enter the permitting procedure at all, which takes roughly 18 months. Leases therefore regularly contain a clause under which the term, and with it the lease payment, only starts once the permit is granted.
The form deliberately asks for little. Everything else is clarified in conversation with your contact person, and missing documents do not hold up a submission.
A grid enquiry or a conversation with the municipality makes your land markedly more attractive to developers, because they remove two of the largest uncertainties early. If you have neither, submit the site anyway.
Offers come from project developers and investors who plan, build or operate photovoltaic and storage projects themselves. ENLAPA does not lease land itself and is not tied to any single project company. We are the intermediary in between, never the counterparty to your lease. Interested parties have to register, and in doing so they take on binding obligations towards you as the offering party. Those obligations are what actually protects your land, which is why they are set out individually here.
Anyone acting as an intermediary, reseller, broker or agent may not register on the platform. Offers therefore come from companies that intend to realise the project themselves, not from a chain of parties passing the site along.
ENLAPA is entitled to verify a registrant's details against suitable official documents, and reserves the right to delete profiles in the event of false statements or serious breaches of the terms of use. Where there is gross deception or forged documents, measures up to and including legal action are taken.
Your data and uploaded documents are only accessible to parties bound by confidentiality. Passing them on to third parties is prohibited.
Lease offers including their financial terms are submitted and documented through the platform. That keeps a traceable record of who offered you what, and when.
Developers must document how a project proceeds: feedback after first contact, conclusion of a lease, grant of a building permit and the further milestones, each with a date and within 7 days of the event. A party that goes quiet does not get to sit on your land unnoticed.
A site is only ever offered to a set number of interested parties at a time, and anyone who loses interest has to update that within 24 hours. So your land does not end up on a list where it sits untouched for years.
For you as the owner the entire path stays free of charge, from submission through the review and the brokerage mandate to the lease itself. That remains true if no contract is concluded in the end.
ENLAPA GmbH acts as a real-estate agent within the meaning of sections 652 ff. of the German Civil Code and is remunerated for it. That remuneration is charged to the project developer unless expressly agreed otherwise. It consists of a flat fee for brokering the contact and a success fee calculated on the realisable capacity in kilowatt peak, due on conclusion of the lease and on grant of the building permit respectively.
It also explains why we do not simply push a site to whoever is nearest: our remuneration depends on a project actually coming about and holding up.
For ENLAPA to obtain lease offers on your behalf, we need a signed brokerage mandate from you. This is not fine print at the margin, it is the point at which a submitted site becomes an assignment. It deliberately comes after the suitability review, so that you do not sign anything before you know whether your land is a candidate at all.
The mandate sets out that we may act for you, which land it covers and how the remuneration is charged. You receive it to read before signing, the brokerage terms are published on this website, and you are of course free to have it reviewed first. Without your signature your land is shown to no project developer.
Not every site is suitable. Common reasons are an area that is too small or too fragmented, a long distance to the nearest usable grid connection point, protected areas, or a planning situation in which municipal consent is not foreseeable. If the review comes out negative we tell you so, with reasons. No mandate follows, your land is shown to no one, and no cost arises for you.
A no for ground-mounted photovoltaics is not automatically a no for every use. A large battery storage system needs only 0.5 to 3 hectares but places high demands on the grid connection. Sites in a commercial zone or close to a substation can therefore be attractive even though they would be too small for a solar park. The review also always reflects today's grid and planning situation.
Nothing. For landowners the platform is free of charge: no listing fee, no running cost, no commission. ENLAPA acts as a broker and the remuneration is charged to the project developer unless expressly agreed otherwise.
The brokerage mandate (Vermittlungsauftrag) is the signed document instructing ENLAPA to obtain lease offers for your land. Without it we do not act for you and show your site to no project developer. You grant it only after the suitability review, it is free of charge for you, and you can read it and have it reviewed before signing.
No. Offering it is without obligation. You decide whether to grant a mandate, who you talk to, and whether you accept an offer. A lease only comes about with your signature, and you sign it directly with the project developer.
After the suitability review and the mandate we first start the grid connection enquiry with the responsible grid operator; only with its result do we obtain lease offers from vetted project developers for you. Reaching a signed lease usually takes a few weeks to several months, depending on how quickly terms and legal questions are settled.
Before the mandate, no one except ENLAPA. After it, your land is published on the ENLAPA marketplace and made available to a limited number of registered project developers who have committed to confidentiality and may not pass your data to third parties. Users can only make contact with one another once registered.
Only users of full age and legal capacity, and expressly no intermediaries, resellers, brokers or agents: those may neither use the ENLAPA database nor register. Offers therefore come from companies that intend to realise the project themselves. On registering they undertake to safeguard the offering party's interests with the care of a prudent merchant, to observe data protection, to submit offers through the platform and to document project progress. ENLAPA is additionally entitled to verify their details against official documents, and reserves the right to delete profiles in the event of false statements.
Directly with the project developer, not with ENLAPA. We are not a party to the lease and do not lease land ourselves. Planning, permitting, construction, operation and dismantling of the plant lie entirely with the developer.
We report the review result back to you with reasons. No brokerage mandate follows, your land is shown to no one, and no cost arises for you. Common reasons are insufficient size, a long distance to the grid connection point, protected areas, or a planning situation with no realistic prospect of consent.
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 higher at around 25,000 euros per hectare per year but needs only 0.5 to 3 hectares. For comparison, agricultural lease averages about 350 euros for arable land and 200 to 300 euros for grassland across Germany.
As a rule only once the permit has been granted. The developer signs the lease before it is clear whether construction will be allowed, because the site has to be secured to start the roughly 18-month permitting procedure at all. Leases therefore usually contain a clause under which the term, and with it the payment, begins with the permit. Make sure you can terminate too if a project fails to progress for years.
You can offer the land as the owner, as a representative of a community of owners, or on the owner's behalf. Where there are several co-owners you need their consent. If the land is under an agricultural lease, that does not rule out a solar project, it determines the timing: the existing lease has to be renegotiated or terminated, and it is the owner rather than the tenant who decides on a change of use.
Yes, and it is often sensible. What matters for viability is the contiguous usable total area rather than the number of individual plots, because the fixed costs of grid connection, planning and fencing spread across more capacity. Adjoining parcels, including those held by several owners, can be pooled into a commercially attractive size.
