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Tesla Energy

Tesla Energy is Tesla's solar generation and battery storage business unit, encompassing residential Powerwall, utility-scale Megapack, retrofit solar panels, and the Solar Roof. The Fleet API exposes energy_sites endpoints that let partners and owners read live power, calendar history, and site info, and write backup reserve, operation mode (self_consumption, backup, autonomous), storm mode, time-of-use settings, and off-grid vehicle charging reserve — the same control surface that powers the Tesla app and integrators like Autobidder, Tesla Electric (virtual power plant), and third-party home energy dashboards.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Tesla Energy the way a machine reads it — 44 machine-readable artifacts across 10 APIs, 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 — Tesla Energy scores 67.9/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). 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.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 67.9/100 · strong
Contract Quality 19.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Tesla Energy

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Tesla Energy. 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 10

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.

Tesla Energy Backup API

Backup reserve threshold for Powerwall sites

Tesla Energy History API

Historical energy production, consumption, and battery flow

Tesla Energy Live Status API

Real-time power, state-of-charge, and grid status for an energy site

Tesla Energy Off Grid Charging API

Reserve threshold for EV charging when the site is islanded from the grid

Tesla Energy Operation API

Operation mode — self_consumption, backup, or autonomous

Tesla Energy Products API

Discover energy_sites and other products owned by the authenticated account

Tesla Energy Programs API

Virtual power plant and grid-services program participation

Tesla Energy Site Info API

Static configuration of an energy site (components, address, time zone)

Tesla Energy Storm Mode API

Pre-charge Powerwall to 100% ahead of severe weather alerts

Tesla Energy Time Of Use API

Tariff schedule, peak/off-peak rate plans, and TOU optimization

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Open Collections 1

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).

Tesla Fleet Energy API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing 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 six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

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.

Tesla Energy Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

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.

Features 19

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Powerwall residential battery — 13.5 kWh per unit, stackable up to 10 units, with integrated inverter and gateway in Powerwall+
Megapack utility-scale battery — up to 3.9 MWh per unit, containerized DC architecture for grid storage and frequency regulation
Solar Roof — integrated solar shingles for new and retrofit residential roofs
Retrofit solar panels — private-label panels paired with Tesla Solar Inverter (cellular-connected, OTA updates)
Autobidder — real-time energy trading and dispatch platform for utility-scale storage
Tesla Electric — virtual utility / retail electricity provider in Texas with Powerwall participation
Fleet API energy_sites endpoints for partner read/write access to site state and operation
Backup reserve control — set the % state-of-charge Powerwall holds in reserve for outages
Operation mode control — self_consumption, backup-only, autonomous (algorithmic)
Storm Mode — automatically charges Powerwall to 100% ahead of severe weather alerts
Time-of-Use settings — tariff schedule and peak/off-peak rate plan management
Off-Grid Vehicle Charging Reserve — separate reserve threshold for EV charging during outages
Calendar history — historical energy production, consumption, grid import/export, battery flow
Live Status — real-time site power, state-of-charge, grid status, and load breakdown
Programs — virtual power plant and grid services participation status
Tesla app — single-pane control for Powerwall, Solar, and vehicles (consumer surface above the API)
Lathrop, CA Megapack factory (operational since 2022) — 40 GWh/year capacity
Shanghai Megafactory — Tesla's second Megapack factory, online 2025
Energy revenue $10.1B in 2024 (+67% YoY); 31.4 GWh battery deployments in 2023 (+113% YoY)

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Tesla Energy Context

11 classes · 25 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Tesla Energy API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Tesla Energy API Rules

8 rules · 2 errors · 6 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Tesla Energy Site Live Status

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tesla Energy Site

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 2

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 2

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.

Tesla Energy Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Tesla Energy Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Tesla Energy Scopes

3 scopes · authorizationCode

3 scopes

SCOPES

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.

Tesla Energy Agentic Access

10 operations · 5 acting

10 operations · 5 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Tesla Energy — 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

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

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