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Ask your agent in plain language. Each of these maps to a real tool on the server.
Use the get grid aggregations tool in Solcast
Use the manage pv power site tool in Solcast
Use the get advanced pv power tool in Solcast
Use the get radiation & weather tool in Solcast
Use the list pv power sites tool in Solcast
Use the get tmy data tool in Solcast
Supported Tools
get_grid_aggregations
Get Grid Aggregations
Retrieve aggregated PV power data for grid regions or PV fleets. Grid aggregations combine thousands of PV systems into regional power estimates.
Supports two modes:
- **Live**: Estimated actual aggregated power for up to 7 days
- **Forecast**: Forecasted aggregated power for up to 14 days
Outputs include total power (MW) or performance units (% of capacity), with probabilistic outputs (P10/P50/P90). Used for grid management, load forecasting, VPP management, and energy trading.
manage_pv_power_site
Manage PV Power Site
Create, update, or delete a PV Power Site for use with the Advanced PV Power model. PV Power Sites store detailed system specifications including capacity, tracking type, module type, derating factors, bifacial settings, and more.
Supports the following operations:
- **create**: Create a new PV Power Site
- **update**: Partially update an existing site's specifications
- **replace**: Fully overwrite an existing site's specifications
- **delete**: Delete a PV Power Site
Site management operations do not consume API request quota.
get_advanced_pv_power
Get Advanced PV Power
Retrieve advanced PV power estimates for a pre-configured PV Power Site. Uses Solcast's sophisticated PV model with comprehensive site configuration options including tracking type, bifacial settings, derating factors, and more.
Supports three temporal modes:
- **Forecast**: Power output predictions up to 14 days ahead
- **Live**: Estimated actual power output for the past 7 days
- **Historic**: Historical power output from 2007 to 7 days ago
Requires a PV Power Site to be created first using the "Manage PV Power Site" tool.
get_radiation_and_weather
Get Radiation & Weather
Retrieve solar irradiance and weather data for any global location. Supports three temporal modes:
- **Forecast**: Up to 14 days ahead from the present time
- **Live**: Estimated actuals for the past 7 days to present
- **Historic**: Time series from 2007 to 7 days ago
Returns time-series data including GHI, DNI, DHI, GTI, air temperature, wind speed, cloud opacity, precipitation, and more. Select specific output parameters to customize the response.
list_pv_power_sites
List PV Power Sites
List PV Power Sites configured in your Solcast account, or retrieve details for a specific site by its resource ID. PV Power Sites store the system specifications used for advanced PV power estimates.
This operation does not consume API request quota.
get_tmy_data
Get TMY Data
Retrieve Typical Meteorological Year (TMY) datasets for long-term resource assessment and energy yield modeling. TMY data is generated from 15+ years of satellite-derived historical data.
Available for three data types:
- **Radiation & Weather**: TMY irradiance and weather data for a location
- **Rooftop PV Power**: TMY PV power output for a rooftop system
- **Advanced PV Power**: TMY PV power for a pre-configured PV Power Site
Useful for solar resource assessment, bankable energy yield studies, and long-term performance projections.
get_rooftop_pv_power
Get Rooftop PV Power
Estimate PV power output for a rooftop solar system at any global location. Designed for modelling production from rooftop PV systems (particularly fleets) with limited system specifications.
Supports three temporal modes:
- **Forecast**: Power output predictions up to 14 days ahead
- **Live**: Estimated actual power output for the past 7 days
- **Historic**: Historical power output from 2007 to 7 days ago
get_horizon_angle
Get Horizon Angle
Retrieve the terrain horizon angle profile for a given location. Returns elevation angles at specified azimuth intervals around the compass, useful for understanding terrain shading effects on solar installations.
submit_site_measurements
Submit Site Measurements
Submit up to 1000 measured power and operating-condition records for an Advanced PV Power site. Discover the resource ID with list_pv_power_sites. Power values use MW.
Enable Solcast in Metorial. In your Metorial portal, enable the Solcast MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.
Add a custom connector. Open Customize, then Connectors. Select Add, then Custom, then Web.
Paste your Metorial MCP URL. Name it Metorial, paste your Magic MCP URL (<your-magic-mcp-url>) and continue.
Sign in. Select Add and sign in to load Solcast tools.
Enable Solcast in Metorial. In your Metorial portal, enable the Solcast MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.
Add a custom MCP server. On ChatGPT web, open Plugins, select +, then Add custom MCP server.
Paste your Metorial MCP URL. Name it Metorial, paste your Magic MCP URL (<your-magic-mcp-url>), choose OAuth and accept the risk notice.
Create and install the plugin. Select Create as a plugin, install it and sign in to load Solcast tools.
Enable Solcast in Metorial. In your Metorial portal, enable the Solcast MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.
Add Metorial to your MCP config. Use ~/.cursor/mcp.json for every project, or .cursor/mcp.json for one.
Sign in. Open Customize in the sidebar, find Metorial and sign in to load Solcast tools.
{
"mcpServers":{
"metorial":{
"url":"<your-magic-mcp-url>"
}
}
}
Enable Solcast in Metorial. In your Metorial portal, enable the Solcast MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.
Add the server over HTTP. Add --scope user to use it in every project.
Sign in. Run /mcp, select Metorial and sign in to load Solcast tools.
claude mcp add --transport http metorial <your-magic-mcp-url>
Enable Solcast in Metorial. In your Metorial portal, enable the Solcast MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.
Add the server and sign in. The Codex CLI, IDE extension and ChatGPT desktop app share this config.
Check the connection. Type /mcp in Codex to see Metorial and its Solcast tools.
codex mcp add metorial --url <your-magic-mcp-url>
codex mcp login metorial
Run Solcast through the Metorial gateway
One governed layer for every app your agents reach, not a separate connector per tool.
Give Solcast and every other app to your whole team through one MCP gateway, behind your SSO.
Scope which teams and agents can use Solcast tools with role-based access control, and trace every call.
Prefer to run it yourself? Metorial is open source and self-hostable.
Retrieve solar irradiance, weather, rooftop PV and Advanced PV power data, including live estimates, forecasts, historical time series and Typical Meteorological Year datasets. Manage and discover PV sites, submit measured power records, inspect terrain horizons, and query configured grid aggregations. Tools return structured JSON data.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about connecting Solcast to AI agents with Metorial.
How many tools does the Solcast MCP server have?
The Solcast MCP server exposes 9 tools, including Get Grid Aggregations, Manage PV Power Site, Get Advanced PV Power. Each one is governed and traced through Metorial.
Does the Solcast MCP server support triggers?
Solcast exposes tools your agents call on demand; it does not publish event triggers yet. Everything still runs through one governed MCP URL.
Which AI clients can use the Solcast MCP server?
Any MCP client, including VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, OpenCode and Grok. Each one reaches the Solcast MCP server through the same Metorial URL.
How do I give only some teams access to Solcast?
Use role-based access control to decide which teams, users, and agents can use Solcast and which of its tools they can call.
Can I self-host the Solcast MCP server?
Yes. Metorial is open source, so you can run the Solcast MCP server yourself or use the hosted gateway.
Connect Solcast to production AI agents
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