Solar City

SolarCity was a San Mateo, California based provider of residential and commercial solar energy systems, founded in 2006 by brothers Peter and Lyndon Rive with backing and board chairmanship from their cousin Elon Musk. The company designed, financed, installed, and monitored rooftop solar and energy-storage systems, and became the largest residential solar installer in the United States before its 2012 IPO (NASDAQ: SCTY). In November 2016 SolarCity was acquired by Tesla, Inc. in an all-stock deal valued at roughly 2.6 billion US dollars and was absorbed into Tesla's energy-generation and storage business; the SolarCity brand was subsequently retired and its products relaunched under Tesla (Solar Roof, Solar Panels, Powerwall). SolarCity no longer operates as an independent company and publishes no standalone developer portal, public API, or OpenAPI surface. The solarcity.com domain remains registered under Tesla's DNS infrastructure but no longer serves a live website.

Solar City is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy, and Residential Solar.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanySolarEnergyRenewable EnergyResidential SolarClean EnergySolar InstallationTeslaAcquired

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Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

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Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

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Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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name: Solar City
description: 'SolarCity was a San Mateo, California based provider of residential and commercial solar energy systems, founded
  in 2006 by brothers Peter and Lyndon Rive with backing and board chairmanship from their cousin Elon Musk. The company designed,
  financed, installed, and monitored rooftop solar and energy-storage systems, and became the largest residential solar installer
  in the United States before its 2012 IPO (NASDAQ: SCTY). In November 2016 SolarCity was acquired by Tesla, Inc. in an all-stock
  deal valued at roughly 2.6 billion US dollars and was absorbed into Tesla''s energy-generation and storage business; the
  SolarCity brand was subsequently retired and its products relaunched under Tesla (Solar Roof, Solar Panels, Powerwall).
  SolarCity no longer operates as an independent company and publishes no standalone developer portal, public API, or OpenAPI
  surface. The solarcity.com domain remains registered under Tesla''s DNS infrastructure but no longer serves a live website.'
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