Solar Home Incentives

Solar production estimates, US clean-energy incentives by ZIP, instant home Energy Node Scores, and consented installer routing — as MCP tools and plain REST. The core tools are free with no API key. By Viridis LLC.

Any AI agent that touches a home's energy decision — "should I get solar?", "what rebates apply here?", "is this quote fair?", "find me an installer" — can call EnergyAI instead of rebuilding energy domain expertise.

Your first call, 30 seconds, no key

curl -X POST https://api.energyaisolution.com/api/v1/agent/check_incentives \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"args":{"zipCode":"59715"}}'

That's a live answer — current incentives for Bozeman MT plus the canonical consent text you'd use to route a homeowner. Swap the tool name for estimate_production ({"zipCode":"59715","systemKw":6}) or get_node_score ({"zipCode":"59715","serviceType":"solar","monthlyBillRange":"150_250"}). The only required argument on all three read tools is zipCode; every MCP schema ships inline examples.

• Live MCP endpoint (full toolset): https://api.energyaisolution.com/mcp
• Free-tier-only endpoint: https://api.energyaisolution.com/mcp/solar
• Plain REST: POST https://api.energyaisolution.com/api/v1/agent/{tool}
• Agent docs: https://api.energyaisolution.com/agents
• Official MCP Registry: com.energyaisolution/energyai · com.energyaisolution/solar-home-incentives

Free tools — no key, no signup

Tool	What you get
check_incentives	Honest, current (post-2026 federal sunset) US incentive guidance by ZIP — state & utility programs via DSIRE. Also returns the canonical consent text for routing.
estimate_production	Honest-range annual solar kWh for a ZIP, from system kW or a monthly bill. Assumptions stated, never point guarantees.
get_node_score	Instant 0–100 Energy Node Score across 7 axes (efficiency, electrification, renewable generation, storage/resilience, financial optimization, carbon, market readiness) + the single highest-leverage next action.
route_lead	Submit a consented homeowner project; EnergyAI's autonomous agent finds, vets, and routes a real local installer. Free for you and the homeowner. Attach your free key → 20% bounty on conversion.
list_guides	Index of source-cited, 2026-accurate state incentive guides (solar, heat pumps, batteries, weatherization). Filter by state and topic; every entry carries a canonical URL to cite.
get_guide	Full text of one guide — intro, sections, FAQs, primary sources. Grounded content for answering incentive questions, with a ready-made citation line.

Rate limits: 120 calls/hr per caller (route_lead 10/hr). Machine-readable catalog: /api/v1/agent.

Quickstart

MCP (Claude, or any MCP client) — no key needed for the free tier

{ "mcpServers": {
  "energyai": { "type": "http", "url": "https://api.energyaisolution.com/mcp" }
}}

claude mcp add --transport http energyai https://api.energyaisolution.com/mcp

Plain REST

curl -X POST https://api.energyaisolution.com/api/v1/agent/check_incentives \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"args":{"zipCode":"59715"}}'

OpenAI function-calling / LangChain / CrewAI

Fetch the ready-made spec — one URL, drop into tools:

GET https://api.energyaisolution.com/api/v1/agent/openai-tools.json

See examples/ for runnable Python and shell clients.

Routing a homeowner (consent required)

1. Call check_incentives — the response includes consentTextForRouting, the canonical consent text.
2. Show it to your user verbatim; record their agreement + timestamp.
3. Call route_lead with the project details, consentText, and consentTimestamp (alternate consent language requires an explicit consentVersion).
4. You receive a leadId; the homeowner gets confirmation when a vetted installer accepts.

Get paid: register a free key (POST /api/v1/merchant/register) and send it as a Bearer token on route_lead — you earn a 20% bounty when the lead converts. The same prepaid key unlocks the deeper billed tools (full roadmaps, Quote Guardian review, information-theoretic recommendations) at $0.02–$1.00 per call — penny-priced to fit inside any agent budget covenant with x402-style auto-recovery on empty balance.

The physics ledger

EnergyAI is operated as a live experiment against the thermodynamic bound on intelligence, dI/dt ≤ P·D/(k_B·T·ln 2): every tool call is metered in useful bits delivered and joules dissipated, and the ledger is public — energyaisolution.com/physics. Estimates are always ranges with stated assumptions; installer matching is consent-gated and enforced by 60+ tested invariants.

Manifests

Registry manifests for both servers are in manifests/. This repository contains documentation and client examples only; the service itself is hosted.

License

Documentation and examples: MIT. The hosted service is © Viridis LLC.