National Renewable Energy Laboratory
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) developer network provides a catalog of public APIs that give developers access to renewable energy, alternative fuel, electricity, building, climate, solar, wind, and transportation data and analysis services produced by NREL.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles National Renewable Energy Laboratory the way a machine reads it — 19 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — National Renewable Energy Laboratory scores 28.0/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 23/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for National Renewable Energy Laboratory. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 8
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Alternative Fuel Stations
Locate alternative fuel stations across the United States with filters for fuel type, location, status, and access.
PVWatts
Estimate the energy production and cost of grid-connected photovoltaic energy systems for any location.
Utility Rates
Average commercial, industrial, and residential utility rates by US location.
Solar Resource Data
Average direct normal, global horizontal, and tilt at latitude irradiance for a US location.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory Alt Fuel Stations API
The Alt Fuel Stations API from National Renewable Energy Laboratory — 2 operation(s) for alt fuel stations.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory Pvwatts API
The Pvwatts API from National Renewable Energy Laboratory — 1 operation(s) for pvwatts.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory Solar API
The Solar API from National Renewable Energy Laboratory — 1 operation(s) for solar.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory Utility Rates API
The Utility Rates API from National Renewable Energy Laboratory — 1 operation(s) for utility rates.
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Open Collections 6
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONNREL Developer Network APIs Alt Fuel Stations API
OPEN COLLECTIONNREL Developer Network APIs Alt Fuel Stations Pvwatts API
OPEN COLLECTIONNREL Developer Network APIs Alt Fuel Stations Solar API
OPEN COLLECTIONNREL Developer Network APIs
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
FinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for National Renewable Energy Laboratory — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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