JLL Partners with VECKTA to Accelerate Distributed and Onsite Energy Deployment at Scale
On April 28, 2026, JLL’s Energy Advisory practice announced a strategic collaboration with Cleantech San Diego member and Southern California Energy Innovation Network company VECKTA, the world’s first onsite energy intelligence platform and marketplace, to provide commercial real estate (CRE) owners and occupiers a fully integrated path from energy strategy through competitive procurement and contract execution. The arrangement brings together JLL’s proven energy advisory expertise and extensive client relationships with VECKTA’s innovative technology platform and expertise to help commercial and industrial clients deploy distributed energy projects, including solar and battery energy storage systems (BESS), faster and more cost effectively.
The collaboration addresses critical challenges facing modern organizations as they work to meet ambitious sustainability targets while simultaneously managing rising energy costs, load growth and grid reliability concerns. It also enables JLL to offer clients more sophisticated onsite energy system analytics and procurement capabilities that dramatically reduce soft costs and accelerate time-to-market.
“Organizations seek quick and efficient pathways to deploy onsite distributed energy at scale without significantly expanding budgets,” said Brian Rappaport, Managing Director, Head of Commercial Energy Solutions, Energy Advisory at JLL. “Teaming up with VECKTA enables our team to deliver industry-leading speed and analytical rigor across our clients’ institutional real estate portfolios. VECKTA’s cloud-based, marketplace platform allows JLL to rapidly screen hundreds of energy intensive facilities, all while maintaining the deep advisory expertise and client relationships that differentiate JLL in the market.”
VECKTA’s AI-enabled platform processes over 5,000 market, environmental, policy and equipment cost data points per site to generate detailed feasibility assessments and optimal system configurations. That deal-level intelligence then feeds back into JLL’s platform to benchmark, refine project feasibility and commercial strategy to derisk project execution. VECKTA’s platform then streamlines competitive procurement through automated RFP workflows, structured supplier engagement and systematic proposal evaluation tools.
The arrangement also leverages JLL’s global platform of approximately 1,000 experienced energy and sustainability professionals across 80 countries, combined with VECKTA’s proven track record of supporting over $100 million in deployed energy projects and another $96 million in active procurement. Together, this integrated capability delivers end-to-end services from initial portfolio screening through final contract execution and ongoing performance monitoring.
“The business case for onsite energy across institutional portfolios has been clear for some time,” added Dan Roberts, VECKTA Head of Sales and Co-Founder. “The problem has always been execution at scale. With energy economics where they are today, the cost of waiting is real, and this collaboration gives JLL clients the analytical rigor and procurement infrastructure to execute.
With JLL and VECKTA’s support, clients can deploy photovoltaic solar systems, thermal solar, wind energy, BESS, microgrids, combined heat and power systems and emerging technologies like hydrogen fuel cells across their portfolios. VECKTA’s marketplace of thousands of vetted suppliers connects clients with qualified developers while maintaining procurement integrity and transparency throughout the transaction process.
The strategic relationship addresses fundamental shifts reshaping the energy landscape. According to JLL’s recent where energy meets property research, legacy grid constraints are creating lengthening interconnection timelines and congestion that are turning access to power into a gating factor for development decisions. Across major data center markets, grid connection timelines for large new loads are approaching five years on average, turning access to power into a binding constraint well before construction begins. At the same time, electricity prices across major markets have increased sharply, with commercial electricity prices rising approximately 33% between 2020 and 2025, after remaining flat in the preceding five-year period. Additionally, despite growing concerns about power disruptions, fewer than one-third of organizations currently have advanced backup power systems in place, while 90% of respondents indicate they would pay a premium for sites with reliable energy infrastructure.
“Our Energy Advisory team is already managing significant onsite renewable energy opportunities for clients across commercial real estate, industrial and institutional portfolios,” said Josephine Tucker, Americas Head of Energy Advisory & Sustainability at JLL. “Our relationship with VECKTA enables us to more efficiently serve additional clients while delivering faster execution timelines and better project economics. This directly supports our clients’ net zero commitments and energy resilience objectives.”
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