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Accelerate the Path to Power
We partner with data center developers to deploy distributed front-of-the-meter storage and rooftop solar across commercial real estate, aggregated to deliver real, incremental capacity that accelerates go-live, neutralizes political pushback, saves ratepayers money, and creates immediate local construction jobs.
Built on built environment
No transmission delays
No added burden to ratepayers
NO NIMBY Issues
How it works
Solar Landscape deploys front-of-the-meter storage assets across its commercial real estate partners’ properties to help data center developers meet capacity thresholds faster.
Every month without full capacity is a month of delayed data center revenue. Solar Landscape can help close that gap.
Required capacity to power development
Power availability determines speed to energization or COD and creates opportunities to avoid curtailment.
Solar Landscape identifies distributed capacity opportunities
Unused commercial real estate space becomes incremental capacity
Solar Landscape deploys storage on Commercial Real Estate
(not on your data center)
We have 170+ CRE Partners who can provide access to thousands of commercial and industrial sites creating significant opportunities for future energy deployment.
We are experts in distribution-level energy interconnection, helping bring new generation online efficiently within complex utility environments.
We have in-house construction capabilities that allow us to maintain quality, manage risk, and deliver projects with greater speed and execution certainty.
Built for speed, scale, ~and certainty~
Faster time‑to‑power = faster time‑to‑revenue
Fast incremental capacity within utility footprints nationwide.
Aligned with utility and policy frameworks
Meeting Large-load Policy Requirements
How distribution-level storage and solar help utilities satisfy emerging large-load obligations.
LARGE LOAD POLICY COMMITMENTS
HOW DISTRIBUTION-LEVEL STORAGE & SOLAR ALIGNS
Fund incremental generation and capacity required to serve new demand
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Incremental, distribution-level capacity additions aligned with load ramp
Incremental, distribution-level capacity additions aligned with load ramp
Fund associated grid delivery infrastructure upgrades
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Complementary to grid delivery upgrades
Can reduce upgrade scope and timing concentration risk (market specific), but not the full substitute for transmission buildout
Protect ratepayers from downstream cost shifts
Locational capacity injection and accelerated time-to-power
Brattle analyses indicate proximity and speed can reduce upgrade exposure and broader system cost impacts
Contribute to local workforce development and economic activity
Best-in-class workforce training & economic impact
Scalable construction workforce programs tied to local communities and fast, broad economic stimulus (~4M labor hours per 500 MW)
Support grid reliability and system resilience
Dispatchable, distribution-connected storage
Provides peak-aligned capacity and enhances system resilience
Ensure new large loads do not increase costs for existing ratepayers
Customer-funded distributed energy helps offset new demand
Commercial-scale storage and solar can be developed alongside new large-load projects, helping demonstrate that new demand is supported by new energy infrastructure rather than shifting costs to existing customers.
Accelerate infrastructure while minimizing community impacts
Deploy on existing commercial real estate
Commercial rooftops, parking lots, and underutilized land reduce the need for greenfield development, helping minimize permitting challenges, land-use conflicts, and NIMBY opposition while accelerating deployment.
Directly addresses commitment
Indirectly addresses commitment
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~Usable capacity,~
on demand
Increase the usable value of energy — delivering power during peak demand and improving grid reliability.
The Faster Path to Power ~Starts Here~
Every market is different. Our team works with data center developers, utilities, and commercial real estate partners to evaluate distributed energy opportunities that can support load growth and accelerate project delivery.
Reach us at: datacenters@solarlandscape.com
FAQs
Explore answers to frequently asked questions about distributed energy, commercial rooftop solar, battery storage, grid capacity, utility readiness, and how these solutions help support the growing electricity needs of AI and data centers.
How can Solar Landscape help accelerate data center energization?
As electricity demand grows, securing capacity has become one of the biggest challenges facing new data center development. Solar Landscape helps address that challenge by developing distributed solar and battery storage projects that add new generation and grid capacity closer to where power is needed, more rapidly than any other form of front-of-the-meter capacity can be developed.
Working alongside utilities, Solar Landscape transforms commercial real estate into distributed energy infrastructure that can help support utility readiness, strengthen local electric systems, and create additional pathways to energize new data centers faster.
Solar Landscape also works with regulators and other policymakers to create the new, innovative regulatory frameworks that enable data centers to invest in distributed energy infrastructure and receive appropriate benefits in exchange for those investments.
How can solar and storage support AI infrastructure?
AI is driving unprecedented growth in electricity demand. Supporting that growth requires both additional electricity generation and more flexible grid capacity.
Distributed solar adds new local generation, while battery storage provides dispatchable capacity that helps utilities manage periods of high demand. Together, these resources strengthen the grid and support the reliable power needed for AI infrastructure to grow.
Can distributed energy complement utility power?
Yes. Distributed energy is designed to work as an integral part of the electric grid, not as a replacement.
Commercial rooftop solar and battery storage provide additional local generation and capacity that utilities can integrate into their broader energy portfolios. By expanding available resources close to where electricity is consumed, distributed energy helps strengthen grid reliability while supporting continued data center growth. And by coming online more rapidly than traditional transmission infrastructure can, distributed energy helps meet near-term demand and bridge the gap to longer lead-time infrastructure.
Does Solar Landscape build energy projects on data center campuses?
No. Solar Landscape develops distributed solar and battery storage projects on commercial real estate rather than on data center campuses.
Leveraging warehouses, distribution centers, manufacturing facilities, retail centers, office buildings, and other commercial properties in the same utility service territory as a data center facility allows new energy infrastructure to be developed without impacting data center operations or requiring additional land at the facility itself.
This approach gives developers additional flexibility while helping utilities expand local generation and capacity.
Where can Solar Landscape develop projects?
One of Solar Landscape's greatest advantages is access to commercial real estate at scale.
Through partnerships with more than 170 commercial real estate owners representing over 90 million square feet of rooftop space, Solar Landscape has extensive site control across multiple markets. This allows the company to identify and develop distributed solar and storage projects on existing commercial properties located near areas of growing electricity demand.
Because these sites are already part of the built environment, Solar Landscape can often move more quickly than projects that require acquiring and permitting new land, helping utilities and data center developers bring additional energy resources online faster.
How quickly can distributed energy projects be deployed?
Every project is different, but distributed energy projects can often be developed faster than many traditional generation and transmission projects because they leverage existing commercial properties and existing utility infrastructure.
Solar Landscape combines proprietary technology, established commercial real estate partnerships, utility coordination, and end-to-end project execution to accelerate development and bring new distributed energy resources online as efficiently as possible.
How does Solar Landscape help data center developers secure power?
Solar Landscape works with utilities to develop distributed solar and battery storage projects that strengthen local generation and grid capacity in areas experiencing rapid electricity demand. Rather than competing with the utility, Solar Landscape helps expand the energy resources available to support new development.
For data center developers, this means an experienced partner focused on delivering additional distributed energy infrastructure that can help utilities serve growing loads more quickly and reliably.