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Solaren

Solaren is a combination energy and aerospace company headquartered in Manhattan Beach, California, founded in 2001 by a team of satellite engineers and space scientists. Solaren designs, develops, integrates, deploys and operates space solar power (SSP) plants: solar arrays on a patented lightweight solar power satellite in geosynchronous orbit convert sunlight to electricity, convert that electricity to radio-frequency power, and beam it to an earth receiving station that returns it to the grid as baseload power. The company's business model is to own and operate its SSP plants and sell continuous, zero-emission electricity to utility and government customers; it signed the world's first power purchase agreement for space solar electricity, with Pacific Gas & Electric. Solaren is a hardware and energy-generation company and publishes no public developer program, API, or machine-readable API contract.

Solaren is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Energy, Electricity, Renewable Energy, and Space.

Solaren’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 8 more developer resources.

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11.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-02 · rubric v0.18.0
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CompanyEnergyElectricityRenewable EnergySpaceAerospaceSatellitesSolar PowerUtilities

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scored 2026-09-02 · rubric v0.18.0
Composite quality — 11.3/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 1.2 / 17
Access Clarity 3.6 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 4.9 / 9
Regulatory Posture 2.8 / 15
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Energy & Utilities regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Solaren Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Solaren Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Solaren Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 Plans
Plans

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog
 BlogRSS
BlogRSS

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: solaren
name: Solaren
description: 'Solaren is a combination energy and aerospace company headquartered in Manhattan Beach, California, founded
  in 2001 by a team of satellite engineers and space scientists. Solaren designs, develops, integrates, deploys and operates
  space solar power (SSP) plants: solar arrays on a patented lightweight solar power satellite in geosynchronous orbit convert
  sunlight to electricity, convert that electricity to radio-frequency power, and beam it to an earth receiving station that
  returns it to the grid as baseload power. The company''s business model is to own and operate its SSP plants and sell continuous,
  zero-emission electricity to utility and government customers; it signed the world''s first power purchase agreement for
  space solar electricity, with Pacific Gas & Electric. Solaren is a hardware and energy-generation company and publishes
  no public developer program, API, or machine-readable API contract.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://www.solarenspace.com/wp-content/themes/solaren/img/logo.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/solaren/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-28'
modified: '2026-08-28'
tags:
- Company
- Energy
- Electricity
- Renewable Energy
- Space
- Aerospace
- Satellites
- Solar Power
- Utilities
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/solaren-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.solarenspace.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.solarenspace.com/news-events/press-releases/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://www.solarenspace.com/feed/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.solarenspace.com/contact-us
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.solarenspace.com/privacy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.solarenspace.com/terms-of-use
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/solaren-llms.txt
- type: Plans
  url: plans/solaren-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/solaren-rate-limits.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-28'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 5
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: not-a-software-company
  detail: Solaren generates and sells electricity from orbiting space solar power plants under utility power purchase agreements,
    and its single public site is a WordPress marketing brochure with no developer section — every OpenAPI, GraphQL and /.well-known/
    path probed returned the theme's HTTP 500 error page, and the only machine-readable endpoint on the domain is the default
    WordPress core REST API at /wp-json/ (wp/v2 and friends, no company namespace).
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.solarenspace.com/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.solarenspace.com/openapi.json
    status: 500
  - url: https://www.solarenspace.com/graphql
    status: 500
  - url: https://www.solarenspace.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 500
  - url: https://www.solarenspace.com/wp-json/
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-28'

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