Featured in The hunt for high efficiency – 06-2025

Land ahoy

As a lawyer arranging land leases in the renewable energy sector, Mattan Lass noticed his clients had a very hard time acquiring land to develop solar on. The problem isn’t so much a lack of land availability, but the difficulty navigating land registries in various countries. Lass founded his company Solsign to tackle what he describes as “the disconnect between solar developers and the land.”

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Blathnaid O’Dea

11 Jun 2025

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Mattan Lass, founder of software-as-a-service firm Solsign, sees the company as “basically a lead generator for land-mounted, utility-scale solar site developers.“Our customer is never the landowner. We never take any fees from them, they are the supplier. The customer is always the solar developer.”“We sit on the edge,” he explained. “We are not a consultancy, …

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