# Solar City

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/solar-city/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 2.1 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 2.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 0.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

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

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy, Residential Solar, Clean Energy, Solar Installation, Tesla, Acquired

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