# Palmetto

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/palmetto/  
**Website:** https://palmetto.com  
**APIs profiled:** 4

Palmetto is a clean-energy technology company that helps homeowners and partners adopt solar, HVAC, battery storage, water heaters and financing. For developers and technology partners it publishes three API products under docs.palmetto.com: the Energy Intelligence API (physics-based building energy modeling and solar simulation for any US home, down to hourly granularity and disaggregated to end use), the Energy Platform API (submit customers, designs and pricing into Palmetto's fulfillment pipeline), and the Finance (LightReach) API for financing clean-energy projects, complete with webhooks. Backed by Social Capital.

## Kin Score — 52.5 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 52.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 64.3 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 58.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |
| Access Clarity | 44.7 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 33.8 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 39.5 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **Palmetto Energy Platform API** — Submit customers, designs and pricing into Palmetto's transparent, auditable clean-energy fulfillment pipeline.
- **Palmetto Finance (LightReach) API** — Finance solar, storage and other clean-energy projects; includes contracts, documents, organizations, users and a webhook event surface.
- **Palmetto Bem API** — The Bem API from Palmetto — 1 operation(s) for bem.
- **Palmetto Health API** — The Health API from Palmetto — 1 operation(s) for health.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Palmetto MCP Server**

## Security (2)

- **Palmetto Authentication** — apiKey/http · 3 schemes
- **Palmetto Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Clean Energy, Solar, Energy, Building Energy Modeling, Home Energy, Financing, Sustainability

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/palmetto/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.