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Invest in a rooftop solar plant on a named commercial building in Dubai. You see where the asset sits, how much it generates, who consumes the power, how the cash flow is split and which contracts stand behind it.
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Logistics warehouse rooftop
Al Quoz Industrial Area 4, Dubai · building in operation
- Roof area
- 8,500 m²
- Panel field
- 7,000 m²
- Solar plant
- 1,000 kWp
- Generation, year one
- 1.60m kWh
- Investment CAPEX
- AED 2.50m
- Contract term
- 20 years
- Project IRR after tax
- 12.37%*
- Capital payback
- 8 years*
* Preliminary figures, pending completion of diligence. Not guaranteed. Financed entirely with equity — no bank debt and no contribution from the building's occupier.
The investment case fits in four numbers
One rooftop plant, one long contract, one transparent split of the cash it produces.
The building's occupier does not invest and takes no share in the SPV. They buy the power at a discount to what DEWA would charge and keep the difference. The investor funds the asset, alone or alongside SOLTECH.
How a SOLTECH SPV is put together
The project is held by its own company — a special purpose vehicle. Its job is to separate one project, legally and financially, from everything else SOLTECH does.
An SPV does not, by itself, guarantee that money comes back. What it does is ring-fence one project and its cash flows. Investor protection comes from the structure around it: title to the asset, the offtake contract, the counterparty, security, insurance and the order in which payments are made.
Where every kilowatt-hour goes
The base case values each unit at the electricity cost it avoids: AED 0.440 per kWh excluding VAT. That value is split — the occupier keeps 30%, the SPV takes 70%. The actual rate is recalculated from the building's own DEWA bills during diligence.
AED 0.440 per kWh, split two ways
Avoided electricity cost, base case
- Generation, year one
- 1.60m kWh
- Generation, 20 years
- 30.5m kWh
- SPV revenue, year one
- AED 492,800
- SPV revenue, 20 years
- AED 9.40m
- Distributable cash, 20 years
- AED 6.81m
- Occupier saving, year one
- AED 211,200
- Occupier saving, 20 years
- AED 4.03m
- Grid scheme
- Shams Dubai net metering
Why 8,500 m² of roof gives 1 MWp
The chain runs in two steps, and every number in it is stated, not assumed. Step one: real roof to panel field. The working conversion factor is 1.2 — for every square metre of panel field you need 1.2 m² of real roof, because parapet setbacks, AC plant, hatches and the service walkways a cleaning crew needs all take their share. In UAE dust the panels are washed regularly, so those walkways are not optional. Here: 7,000 m² of field × 1.2 = 8,400 m², and the roof measures 8,500 m² — it fits, with margin. Step two: within the field the modules stand in tilted rows with shading gaps, so a square metre of panel field yields 0.14 kWp. The arithmetic: 7,000 × 0.14 = 980 kWp.
The teaser's base case is 1,000 kWp, held until the survey and the module layout confirm the exact figure. Yield checks out against it: 1.60m kWh in year one is 1,600 kWh per kWp — standard Dubai delivery.
Finding the roof is not the bottleneck
The usual worry about a project like this is supply: fine, but can you do it again? In the UAE the scarce resource is not roof space. It is a qualified site — one where the consumption profile, the roof structure and the occupier's willingness to sign a twenty-year contract all line up at once. That is the part SOLTECH does.
The stock is enormous
Dubai alone has millions of square metres of flat industrial and commercial roof. After a decade of Shams Dubai, 8,430 buildings are connected — a small fraction of what is standing.
The right roofs are a subset
A project works when the building consumes while the sun is up: warehouses, cold stores, factories, schools, malls. We screen for that profile before anything else.
Qualification is the work
Roof rights, DEWA bills, load profile, structure, shading, the occupier's appetite for a long contract. Most candidate roofs fall out here, which is the point.
SOLTECH keeps a running pipeline of sites at different stages of that funnel, so a project is not a one-off. When one asset closes, the next is already in qualification — capital can go into a sequence of projects rather than wait for a lucky building to appear.
Five checks stand between a site and an investment decision
On the current project the address, coordinates and working perimeter are confirmed. The technical, contractual and regulatory work is still ahead. No money moves until all five are closed.
Rights and bills
Roof rights, the building's DEWA accounts and its consumption profile.
Roof survey
Load-bearing capacity, shading, walkways and setbacks.
Generation and EPC
P50 and P90 yield, module layout, contractor pricing, O&M and warranties.
Legal and tax
The SPV itself, the offtake contract and a tax review.
DEWA
Connection and final approval under Shams Dubai.
Then, and only then
The investment decision. A site that fails any check does not reach an investor.
What your ticket returns
Move the amount. Everything else is the deal's own arithmetic, taken from the project teaser.
You invest
Structure
The building's occupier invests nothing and takes no share. Round size: —.
Preliminary figures from the project teaser, pending diligence, and not guaranteed. IRR and the multiple belong to the structure and do not change with ticket size — the amounts do. Distributions are not evenly spread: the schedule includes reserve top-ups in years 13 to 16 and a release of the balance in year 20.
Why the occupier signs
Because the offer costs them nothing and starts paying from the first month. No CAPEX, no share in the SPV, no obligation to maintain anything — just a lower electricity bill for twenty years.
Occupier's cumulative saving, AED millions
AED 4.03m over the contract term, arriving monthly through a lower DEWA bill rather than as a dividend.
What stands behind the money
No one can promise a return on an infrastructure asset. What can be built is a structure where every part is named, documented and checkable.
One named project
Your capital is tied to a specific roof on a specific building, not to a pool of unnamed assets.
A separate company
The SPV owns the plant and holds the contracts, keeping this project's obligations away from any other.
Twenty-year offtake
The occupier buys the output under a contract with a defined term, price and indexation.
Title to the asset
The plant is physical property with a residual value and a manufacturer's performance warranty behind the modules.
Defined order of payments
Operating costs, insurance, corporate tax and reserves are paid first; what remains is distributable cash.
Reporting you can check
Generation is metered by DEWA. Output, revenue, costs and distributions are reported on a fixed schedule.
The platform behind the project is already running
This page is one part of a working system, not a rendering of a future one. The plant will be sold, monitored and reported through infrastructure that already exists.
The CRM is built in-house — leads, pipeline, projects, finance and roles — and it is the same system an investor gets reporting from. The client app preview shows live generation, savings against the DEWA tariff and one-tap service requests.
Where this project sits on the company's road
The Al Quoz plant is a step in a published plan, not an isolated bet. Internal plan, shown for context — not a promise.
Who does what
The investor controls the SPV. SOLTECH sources the project, coordinates delivery and reports. It does not install solar systems — accredited contractors do, under contract, and DEWA inspects the result.
SOLTECH
- Finds the building and qualifies it — consumption profile, roof, occupier
- Structures the deal and sets up the SPV
- Writes the technical brief and tenders the build to DEWA-accredited contractors
- Controls schedule, cost and warranties through to acceptance
- Runs reporting: CRM, documents, project status, O&M and financials
Everyone else
- The SPV — remains the owner of the asset and of the cash flows
- DEWA — approves the design, inspects the installation, meters the output
- Accredited contractor — designs and installs the plant, carries the workmanship warranty
- Occupier — consumes the power and pays under the offtake contract
- Manufacturers — stand behind modules and inverters from the DEWA eligible equipment list
Next steps
NDA and data room · roof rights and DEWA bills · survey and P50/P90 yield · EPC proposal · legal and tax diligence, then closing.
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This page is information about how SOLTECH structures rooftop solar projects. It is not an offer of securities, not an invitation to invest and not investment advice. SOLTECH is not a licensed financial adviser.
Every figure on this page is preliminary and taken from the project teaser prepared before diligence is complete. Returns are not guaranteed. Actual results depend on generation, the occupier's consumption and creditworthiness, contract terms, operating costs, tariff changes and other factors, and may be materially lower.
An SPV separates a project from other projects. It does not, in itself, secure the return of capital. Any specific structure, its jurisdiction and the protections available to an investor are set out in the project documents and should be reviewed with your own legal and tax advisers.
Roof rights, the offtake contract and the building's DEWA accounts are still under review. The project is not open for subscription until all five checks are closed.