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NREL integrations

Connect NREL to any other app, or use it from your AI client over MCP. Government developer portal providing APIs for renewable energy, alternative fuel, buildings, and climate data (formerly NREL, renamed National Laboratory of the Rockies).

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5 actions

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

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What do you want to automate with NREL?

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https://mcp.apiant.ai

One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser.

Set it up in your client
Claude Code

Run this in the directory you want to work in.

claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai

Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.

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Claude, web and desktop

Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first.

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Cursor

Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.

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Zed

Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.

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Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app

Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in.

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Any other MCP client

Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection.

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What your agent can do with NREL

Triggers and actions 5 actions

  • Action
    Estimate solar energy production

    Estimates the energy production of a grid-connected photovoltaic system at a location using NREL PVWatts V8, returning annual and monthly AC output, solar radiation and capacity factor.

  • Action
    Find nearest alternative fuel stations

    Returns the alternative fuel stations nearest to a given latitude and longitude, ordered by distance, with optional filters such as fuel type, status, access and EV network.

  • Action
    Find utility rates

    Returns the annual average residential, commercial and industrial electricity rates ($/kWh) and the local utility company names for a location (2012 data).

  • Action
    Get alternative fuel station

    Returns the full details of one alternative fuel station by its station ID.

  • Action
    List alternative fuel stations

    Returns alternative fuel stations matching your filters, such as fuel type, state, ZIP code, access, status and EV charging network.

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NREL, answered

Is there a NREL MCP server?

APIANT's MCP server at https://mcp.apiant.ai works with NREL. Add that address to any AI client that takes a remote MCP server and sign in once in your browser. Your client can then run NREL actions on demand, or have APIANT build, test and run automations that use NREL. Nothing to install.

What can your agent do in NREL?

Any of NREL's 5 actions, including Estimate solar energy production, Find nearest alternative fuel stations, Find utility rates and Get alternative fuel station. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

Can I use NREL directly from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor?

Yes. Connect your AI client to APIANT once and it works with NREL two ways. Ask it to do something in NREL once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running on its own. A one-off action uses your plan's tasks the same way an automation step does.

Do I need to write code against the NREL API?

No. APIANT connects to the NREL API for you, with your NREL API key. Describe what you want in plain language and your agent builds it on the NREL triggers and actions in the catalog. If you need an endpoint that is not there yet, your agent reads the NREL API documentation and adds it.

Which apps can NREL connect to?

Any app in the catalog; the list on this page pairs NREL with each of them. If the other app is missing, point your agent at its API documentation and it builds the connector.

What happens when something fails?

Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships.

Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.