Landowners: Maximize the Value of Your Land with a Solar Project
Our expertise: Making your land profitable through photovoltaics
Former quarries, landfills, polluted areas, abandoned roadways, or agricultural land—your land may become a burden, especially when its primary use comes to an end. It is essential to find a new purpose for it, transforming this liability into an opportunity.
Photovoltaics can breathe new life into these spaces and make them profitable through renewable energy production. We can transform your land, whether agricultural or degraded, into a source of renewable energy generation.
Our expertise in enhancing the value of your land
MWp of capacity
ground-mounted solar plants
dedicated team
provide support
What types of land can host a solar plant?
It is possible to install a solar project on a wide variety of land types across France:
From 2 hectares:
- Former landfill or waste storage site
- Former airfield
- Abandoned port, road, or rail areas
- Land designated for urbanization, industrial wastelands, underutilized development zones (ZAC)
- Natural or agricultural wastelands
From 8 hectares:
- Agricultural land (livestock, orchards, vineyards, market gardening)
- Artificial water bodies
By utilizing your land for photovoltaic development, you can actively contribute to the energy transition while benefiting from economic returns.
Advantages of photovoltaics for landowners
As a landowner, our photovoltaic solutions represent an excellent opportunity to give your land a new purpose and make it profitable.
We propose leasing your land (terrain or water body) to install a solar plant, enabling you to:
They trust us
We experienced the closure of coal mines, and Gardanne’s ambition is to become a positive energy city with no greenhouse gas emissions. With the biogas from the municipal landfill, we are already producing electricity. The second project involved using the slag heaps from former mines to install a ground-mounted solar plant. My philosophy is simple: all human activity causes pollution, so we must manage both aspects of the problem—activity and pollution. I received no negative feedback; there are no neighbors, nothing in that area. Urbasolar managed the constraints related to the specifics of the soil well, as it is land where nothing can be excavated. Photovoltaics is growing, and that’s a good thing.
Roger Meï
Mayor of Gardanne from 1977 to 2020
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Capacity:
4.5MWp
Former slag heap (13)
Located on a former mine slag heap within an ICPE (classified facility for environmental protection), the Fuveau solar park contributes to site rehabilitation and offers the opportunity to produce renewable energy on degraded land.
Annual production: 6.7 GWh, equivalent to the electricity consumption of 3,000 people.
Capacity:
12.0MWp
Former quarry (13)
After 40 years of operation, this former quarry has found a new purpose through solar energy. More than just a conversion, it represents a true ecological restoration of the site, with measures implemented to develop local wildlife and flora.
Annual production: 21.5 GWh, equivalent to the electricity consumption of 10,300 people.
Capacity:
6.0MWp
Former brick factory (82)
The photovoltaic park in Bessens, located on the site of a former quarry and brick factory, is part of a redevelopment project for the area, considered degraded after years of extraction activities for tile production.
Annual production: 8.5 GWh, equivalent to the electricity consumption of 4,000 people.
Ground-mounted solar plant in Lanas
