Growatt

Growatt New Energy is a global manufacturer of solar PV inverters, energy storage systems, and smart energy management products for residential, commercial, and utility-scale installations. Growatt operates the ShineServer / ShinePhone cloud monitoring platform and publishes a token-authenticated Open API (V1) that lets third-party systems read plant and device telemetry, retrieve historical energy data, and read or write inverter parameters for MIN (TLX) string inverters and SPH (MIX) hybrid inverters across regional endpoints. Originally surfaced as a portfolio company of IDG Capital; enriched from Growatt's public developer surface.

Growatt publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer Technology, Solar, Energy, and Photovoltaic.

Growatt’s developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, API reference, authentication, and 9 more developer resources.

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18.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanyConsumer TechnologySolarEnergyPhotovoltaicInvertersEnergy StorageIoTMonitoring

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 18.0/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 8.7 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 9.3 / 10

Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Growatt Open API V1

Token-authenticated REST API for the Growatt ShineServer monitoring platform. Exposes plant lists and details, plant energy overview and history, device lists, and per-device en...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Conformance

Conformance

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: growatt
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/growatt.png
name: Growatt
description: Growatt New Energy is a global manufacturer of solar PV inverters, energy storage systems, and smart energy management
  products for residential, commercial, and utility-scale installations. Growatt operates the ShineServer / ShinePhone cloud
  monitoring platform and publishes a token-authenticated Open API (V1) that lets third-party systems read plant and device
  telemetry, retrieve historical energy data, and read or write inverter parameters for MIN (TLX) string inverters and SPH
  (MIX) hybrid inverters across regional endpoints. Originally surfaced as a portfolio company of IDG Capital; enriched from
  Growatt's public developer surface.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/growatt/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- idg-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer Technology
- Solar
- Energy
- Photovoltaic
- Inverters
- Energy Storage
- IoT
- Monitoring
apis:
- name: Growatt Open API V1
  description: Token-authenticated REST API for the Growatt ShineServer monitoring platform. Exposes plant lists and details,
    plant energy overview and history, device lists, and per-device energy, detail, history and parameter read/write operations
    for MIN (TLX) string inverters and SPH (MIX) hybrid inverters. Served from regional base URLs (global, China, US).
  humanURL: https://www.showdoc.com.cn/262556420217021/0
  baseURL: https://openapi.growatt.com/v1/
  tags:
  - Solar
  - Energy
  - Monitoring
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.showdoc.com.cn/262556420217021/0
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/growatt-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/growatt-conventions.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/growatt-lifecycle.yml
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/growatt-mcp.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://growatt.com/
- type: Portal
  url: https://openapi.growatt.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.showdoc.com.cn/262556420217021/0
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.showdoc.com.cn/262556420217021/0
- type: Packages
  url: packages/growatt-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/growatt-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/growatt-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/growatt-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/growatt-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/growatt-conformance.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/growatt-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/growatt-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/growatt-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence