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Carlo Toic, SOL-R's COO, is speaking at the KEY Energy Transition Expo in Rimini (Italy)
ENGLISH ■ 05 MARCH 2026 ■ Carlo Toic will share insights from our projects in Europe and beyond, outlining key investment trends and how SOL-R Global Infrastructure’s land acquisition investments improves capital efficiency and lowers risk—helping investors, developers and landowners back renewables with greater confidence, improve their balance sheet and secure equity.
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SOL-R is presenting at the Key Energy conference in Rimini (Italy)
ENGLISH ■ 04 MARCH 2026 ■ Carlo Toic, SOL-R's COO and Lorenzo Bentivoglio, SOL-R's B2B Account Manager for Italy, will be hosting developers and energy producers active in the Italian market to discuss opportunities to fund land acquisitions for solar farms and BESS projects. Recent trends in the Italian market make SOL-R's solution extremely compelling : Land is getting more expensive, especially in areas classified as industrial areas Landowners are increasingly interest
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Feb 271 min read


SOL-R opens up a capital allocation for land acquisitions in Romania
ENGLISH ■ 27 FEBRUARY 2026 ■ Romania is now the 10th European country in which SOL-R Global Infrastructure has secured capital for renewable land acquisitions. It is estimated that Romania will commission net new additions of utility-scale solar farms in excess of 2 GW in the next 3 years. SOL-R is now proposing its innovative financing solutions to developers participating in this dynamic and high-potential market.
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Feb 271 min read


SOL-R is present at the E-World conference in Essen (Germany)
ENGLISH ■ 10 FEBRUARY 2026 ■ SOL-R's team will meet with developers and IPPs in Essen to evangelize the renewable energy community on the benefits of outsourcing land acquisitions to a specialized investment group like SOL-R.
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Feb 101 min read


Marc Bataillon, SOL-R's CEO, is a speaker at the Solar Finance & Investment Conference in London
ENGLISH ■ 03 FEBRUARY 2026 ■ Marc Bataillon will explain to developers of renewable energy projects the benefits of outsourcing land purchases, with a special focus on solar farms where land footprints can be as high as 200-300 hectares and require a large capital outlay. Specifically, Marc Bataillon will detail the financial benefits of not burdening project SPVs with land investments which are not depreciable from an accounting perspective.
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Feb 31 min read


SOL-R opens up a capital allocation for land acquisitions in Ireland
ENGLISH ■ 02 JANUARY 2026 ■ Ireland is now the 9th European country in which SOL-R Global Infrastructure has secured capital for renewable land acquisitions. It is estimated that Ireland will commission net new additions of utility-scale solar farms in excess of 2.5 GW in the next 3 years. SOL-R is now proposing its innovative financing solutions to developers participating in this dynamic and high-potential market.
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Jan 21 min read


Erwan Fournis, SOL-R's Chief Transaction Officer, is a speaker at the Energyear UK conference in London
ENGLISH ■ 25 NOVEMBER 2025 ■ Erwan Fournis is sharing the experience SOL-R has gathered in the 8 European countries in which it operates (Spain, Portugal, France, UK, Germany, Italy, Greece, Poland) with respect to the acquisition of land for solar farms and BESS projects. Specifically, Erwan will detail the differences in acquisition structures when it comes to executing sale & leaseback transactions under already-operating farms and executing deferred acquisitions of land f
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Nov 25, 20251 min read


Carlo Toic, SOL-R's COO, is interviewed by Tom Essex on the REM Podcast
ENGLISH ■ 06 NOVEMBER 2025 ■ Carlo Toic dissects SOL-R business model and value proposition to developers and IPPs on Tom Essex's podcast. ENGLISH https://youtu.be/YFcAfLiNQuE
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Nov 6, 20251 min read


Carlo Toic, SOL-R's COO, is a speaker at the Solar & Storage Live Italia 2025 conference in Verona (Italy)
ENGLISH ■ 09 OCTOBER 2025 ■ Carlo Toic is speaking at the Solar & Storage Live Italia conference to explain the benefits of separating land from energy producing assets. Carlo Toic will focus on the idiosyncracies of the Italian market where a large number of landowners refuse to lease their land and prefer to sell, in order to capture a compelling tax arbitrage between income tax rates (to which lease payments are subject) and capital gains tax rates (to which sales proceed
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Oct 9, 20251 min read


SOL-R opens up a capital allocation for land acquisitions in the UK
ENGLISH ■ 01 OCTOBER 2025 ■ The UK is now the 8th European country in which SOL-R Global Infrastructure has secured capital for renewable land acquisitions. It is estimated that the UKwill commission net new additions of utility-scale solar farms in excess of 8.5 GW in the next 3 years. SOL-R is now proposing its innovative financing solutions to developers participating in this dynamic and high-potential market.
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Oct 1, 20251 min read


Carlo Toic, SOL-R's COO, is a speaker at the Large Scale Solar Conference in Athens (Greece)
ENGLISH ■ 16 SEPTEMBER 2025 ■ Carlo Toic is presenting to Greek developers and IPPs the benefits of separating land assets from energy producing assets. Investors in renewable energy projects now have a new tool in their toolbox : they can outsource the acquisition of land to SOL-R so as to devote their equity commitment solely to assets which offer operating leverage and which can be depreciated over time (as opposed to land).
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Sep 16, 20251 min read


SOL-R opens up a capital allocation for land acquisitions in France
ENGLISH ■ 02 FEBRUARY 2025 ■ France is now the 7th European country in which SOL-R Global Infrastructure has secured capital for renewable land acquisitions. It is estimated that France will commission net new additions of utility-scale solar farms in excess of 7.2 GW in the next 3 years. SOL-R is now proposing its innovative financing solutions to developers participating in this dynamic and high-potential market.
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Feb 11, 20251 min read


Energy Press in Greece interviews Carlo Toic, SOL-R's COO
ENGLISH ■ 14 JANUARY 2025 ■ SOL-R Global Infrastructure brings to Greece new land ownership regime ‘hosting’ RES stations Chief Operating Officer Carlo Toic offers details on SOL-R Global Infrastructure’s new land ownership regime Can you please describe what SOL-R Global Infrastructure (SGI) does? SGI buys land under critical infrastructure like solar farms, BESS or datacenters. We are a landlord with a focus on assets rented to a specialized group of tenants. We never opera
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Jan 14, 20254 min read


Erwan Fournis joins SOL-R Global Infrastructure as the company's Chief Transaction Officer
ENGLISH ■ 09 OCTOBER 2024 ■ Erwan Fournis joins the senior team of SOL-R to oversee deal execution across Europe. Erwan Fournis is a seasoned finance executive with a long career in London where he worked as the lead a financial advisory practice (Operis) but also as an investor for infrastructure funds (InfraRed, CVC DIF).
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Oct 9, 20241 min read


SOL-R opens up a capital allocation for land acquisitions in Greece
ENGLISH ■ 03 MARCH 2024 ■ Greece is now the 6th European country in which SOL-R Global Infrastructure has secured capital for renewable land acquisitions. It is estimated that Greece will commission net new additions of utility-scale solar farms in excess of 2.5 GW in the next 3 years. SOL-R is now proposing its innovative financing solutions to developers participating in this dynamic and high-potential market.
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Jun 20, 20241 min read


SOL-R opens up a capital allocation for land acquisitions in Portugal
ENGLISH ■ 04 JANUARY 2024 ■ Portugal is now the 5th European country in which SOL-R Global Infrastructure has secured capital for renewable land acquisitions. It is estimated that Portugal will commission net new additions of utility-scale solar farms in excess of 1.4 GW in the next 3 years. SOL-R is now proposing its innovative financing solutions to developers participating in this dynamic and high-potential market.
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Jan 4, 20241 min read


Carlo Toic joins SOL-R as Chief Operating Officer
ENGLISH ■ 15 OCTOBER 2023 ■ Carlo Toic joins SOL-R's senior team to focus on building the firm's operations. Carlo Toic comes to SOL-R after a long career in real estate which a specialization in land aggregation and tenant-landlord relationships within the context of land hosting long-term critical infrastructure. Through his experience at MD7 and Telium, Carlo Toic has built a unique experience in acquiring land hosting telecom towers, datacenters and renewable energy in mu
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Oct 11, 20231 min read
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