Find commercial rooftops to lease: outbound for PV developers
CegTec is the outbound agency for PV project developers in the DACH region that want to secure commercial rooftops and open spaces for lease predictably — instead of waiting for referrals.
PV developers rarely fail on the technology — they fail on land access. Securing commercial rooftops and open spaces to lease means reaching the right owners: commercial operators, logistics firms, farmers with large roof areas. This market responds unusually well to concrete, data-driven first contact with a specific property reference and lease offer. The only problem: that outreach usually never happens systematically.
Challenges in PV Rooftop Leasing & Development
- 01
Land access, not technology, is the bottleneck
Modules and financing are rarely the problem. The bottleneck is access to leasable roof and open spaces — which depends on reaching the right owners.
- 02
Acquisition only via brokers and referral
Spaces come through network, brokers or chance. That's not predictable and leaves most regional potential untapped.
- 03
Owners are hard to segment
Commercial operators and farmers with large roof areas are scattered and hard to identify cleanly through classic channels. Without data-driven research the potential stays on the table.
- 04
First contact never happens
The response to a good, property-specific lease approach is often immediately positive — but small developer teams never get around to running it systematically.
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High value per close, wasted volume
A single secured commercial-rooftop lease carries significant project value. Every week without a predictable flow of spaces is wasted development potential.
Our approach
Hyper-personalized multi-channel outreach via email, WhatsApp and LinkedIn — with concrete property data and lease offers to owners of leasable roof and open spaces. AI-assisted regional research identifies the right properties and contacts.
Visibility with owners and advisors searching for lease and PV partners — structured content that LLMs cite on solar and rooftop-leasing questions.
Verifiable project results instead of glossy brochures — in the leasing business the proven, fair close counts, not the pamphlet.
Case study from PV Rooftop Leasing & Development
Jomavis Solar — 22x ROI through AI-driven outreach
How CegTec contacted 112 leads in just 3 hours for Jomavis Solar GmbH, booked 7 meetings and closed a 250 kWp deal with €100,000 margin, on an investment of €2,250.
The campaign funnel in numbers
Source: linked case study, 6-month campaign.
Common questions
Does direct outreach work to find commercial rooftops to lease?
Yes, and exceptionally well. In our Jomavis Solar campaign we contacted 112 owners and businesses in 3 hours, reached 17% response, booked 7 meetings and closed a 250 kWp deal with €100,000 margin on a €2,250 investment. The key: property reference and a concrete lease offer instead of generic outreach.
How do you find the right roof and open-space owners?
Through AI-assisted regional research we identify commercial operators, logistics firms and farmers with suitable areas and address the owners with concrete property data — that specificity is what drives the high response rates.
Which channels do you use?
Multi-channel: email, WhatsApp and LinkedIn in parallel, with automated follow-up. For commercial and agricultural audiences, email and WhatsApp are often stronger than LinkedIn.
How fast is the system live?
Full setup in under a week. At Jomavis the first 112 contacts ran within the first 3 hours after go-live.
Is the outreach GDPR-compliant?
Yes. We use only business contact data from publicly accessible sources, document the legal basis and consistently rely on opt-out — GDPR- and UWG-compliant.
Terminology
- Rooftop lease
- A model where the PV developer leases a commercial building's roof and operates an installation on it.
- kWp
- Kilowatt-peak — the rated capacity of a PV system; commercial-rooftop projects are usually well above 100 kWp.
- Open-space installation
- A PV installation on open land rather than a roof, typically on agricultural or commercial sites.
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