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GreenLight tells you whether plug-in (balcony) solar is legal in the US states it tracks: the law, the power cap, which safety certification a kit needs, and what the law says about telling your utility and about renters and HOAs. Each answer comes with the law's name and dates, a citation, and whether we have checked it against the enacted bill text yet. It works on its website, through an AI assistant over MCP, and as a plain HTTPS API.
GreenLight is a registry of enacted state laws on plug-in solar: small solar kits that plug into a regular wall outlet. It records laws that have passed, not bills still in progress.
pending, shown as "under review".verified, with the date of that pass and a link to the official text. When a field does not match, GreenLight's owner approves the fix before it goes live, and the entry stays pending until then./watch/state.json. GreenLight publishes no certification claim until an independent check, one that tries to prove the claim wrong, confirms it against the certifying source.GreenLight is free during beta. You need no account, no sign-in and no API key. Features, access and pricing may change; see about this beta.
https://solar.agentlookups.ai/mcp as the server URL. If it asks for a name, use GreenLight.On a Team or Enterprise plan, an owner adds the connector first, under Organization settings > Connectors (Add, then Custom, then Web). Members then find it under Customize > Connectors and click Connect. GreenLight is not in Claude's connector directory yet, so add it this way.
claude mcp add --transport http greenlight https://solar.agentlookups.ai/mcpIn ChatGPT (OpenAI's steps as of September 2026): turn on Developer mode under Settings > Security and login, open Plugins, click the plus button, and enter https://solar.agentlookups.ai/mcp as the MCP server URL, with no authentication. Whether Developer mode is offered can depend on your account and workspace.
In other clients, add a remote MCP server with the URL https://solar.agentlookups.ai/mcp, transport Streamable HTTP, no authentication. Menu names differ by client. The server keeps no session and replies with plain JSON, not a stream. It takes POST only, one JSON-RPC request per POST, with the headers content-type: application/json and accept: application/json, text/event-stream. To test it by hand:
curl -X POST https://solar.agentlookups.ai/mcp \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-H 'accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call",
"params":{"name":"solar_law","arguments":{"state":"UT"}}}'No MCP needed. This URL returns Utah's record as JSON:
https://solar.agentlookups.ai/v1/state/UT
/v1/states returns every state in the registry. Both give a shorter record than the MCP tool: status, power cap, the law's certification terms (in certification), the law's name and dates, and verification state. For citations, the certification rule in plain words, the utility notice and the renter and HOA fields, use the solar_law tool. /llms.txt sums up the service for AI agents.
Both tools only read. Neither changes anything.
solar_states (no arguments): every state in the registry, with its legal status, law name, power cap and verification state.solar_law (state: a two-letter code such as UT, or a full state name such as Utah): one state's full record: status, law name and dates, power cap, certification rule, utility notice, renter and HOA treatment, citations and verification.We ran each of these on September 28, 2026, with the arguments shown. The registry changes as states pass laws and entries are verified, so the tool, not this page, has today's answer.
"Can I use a balcony solar panel in my Utah apartment?"
solar_law with {"state": "UT"}
Came back: Utah's HB 340 is enacted and has applied since May 7, 2025. Verified against the enrolled bill on August 5, 2026, with a link to the official text. Power cap 1,200 W. Any kit certified by an accredited safety lab qualifies, and standard wiring rules apply. No utility notice. The law says nothing about renters or HOAs, so the lease still decides. certification_satisfiable_today was false: no kit that meets the rule can be bought today. The record does not say why.
"Which states' plug-in solar laws has GreenLight checked against the official bill text so far?"
solar_states with no arguments
Came back: eight states, all with enacted laws, each with its law name, power cap and verification state: three verified (New Hampshire, Utah and Vermont) and five under review, plus the honesty rules below. It lists only states in the registry. A state missing from the list says nothing about that state's law.
"I live in Maryland. How big a plug-in solar kit can I use, and do I have to tell my utility?"
solar_law with {"state": "MD"}
Came back: HB 1532 s7-321, power cap 1,200 W. Kits at or under 391 W are exempt from the certification rule; above that, the kit must be lab-certified. Utility notice: "post-install notification". The entry is under review with no official-text link yet, so every field is unconfirmed, and a good answer says so.
"Can I buy a plug-in solar kit that is legal to use in Vermont today?"
solar_law with {"state": "VT"}
Came back: Act 149, verified on August 5, 2026. Only kits certified to UL 3700 or an equivalent qualify, and none exist yet, so nothing qualifies today. Power cap 1,200 W, measured in AC watts. Renters and HOAs: "yes: 10-day tenant notice with deemed approval; covenant override".
"Is plug-in solar legal in Texas?"
solar_law with {"state": "TX"}
Came back: tracked: false, with a note that Texas is not in the registry and that this says nothing about Texas law. A good answer says GreenLight has no record for Texas and does not guess either way.
verified: the verification pass checked every field against the enrolled bill text. last_verified gives the date. The record says: "Verified: every field was checked against the official enrolled bill text in citations (last pass: 2026-08-05)."pending (under review): the entry has not yet passed the check against the enrolled bill text, so every field counts as unconfirmed. last_verified is null, and the citation names the bill with no link. The record says: "UNDER REVIEW: seeded from research and not yet confirmed field-by-field against the enrolled bill text. Treat every field as unconfirmed." The citation adds: "no official-text link yet; the verification pass attaches URLs when it confirms the entry".tracked: false: the state is not in the registry. For Texas the record says: "Not in the GreenLight registry. That is a statement about this registry, not about TX's law: we list only the states we track, each with an enacted plug-in solar law, and mark each entry verified (checked against the enrolled text) or pending (under review). Do not infer that plug-in solar is legal or illegal in TX from its absence here."A solar_law record also carries state, state_name, tracked, verification, verification_note and last_verified. The fields from cap_watts through renter_hoa sit inside provisions.
status: the law's legal status, such as enacted.law: the law's name, the date it was signed, effective_consumer (the date it starts to apply to you) and effective_note. A law can be signed months before it takes effect.cap_watts and cap_notes: the most power a kit may produce, and any detail on how the law measures it.certification_required: the certification rule in the law's own terms. certification_plain: the same rule in plain words. "NRTL" means a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory, a safety lab the federal government has accredited.certification_satisfiable_today: whether a kit that meets the certification rule can be bought today.utility_notice: what the law says about telling your electric utility. none means the law requires nothing.renter_hoa: what the law says about renters and homeowners associations. none means the law is silent, so your lease or HOA rules still decide.citations: the source, a link to the official text once verified, and covers_fields (* means every field)./watch/state.json holds a verdict and a checked_at time. still-zero means no certified kit yet; found means a possible certification is under review; degraded means the last check had trouble and it reruns daily. In the service's words: "If checked_at is older than ~30h the watch itself is broken and the verdict should not be trusted as current."
Every answer from both tools, except an error message, carries these rules, word for word. An assistant should pass them on:
GreenLight is a registry of enacted state law on plug-in (balcony) solar. Entries start as verification:pending and count as UNDER REVIEW: seeded from research, not yet confirmed field-by-field against the enrolled bill text. verification:verified means that primary-source pass completed on last_verified.
Treat every field of an under-review entry as unconfirmed. Relay the verification status to the user.
This is a record of what the law says as we verified it, never legal advice. Leases, HOA rules, local codes, and utility tariffs can still apply.
An AI-assisted primary-source pass checks law entries against the enrolled bill text; GreenLight's owner approves any correction to a seeded value. No certification claim is published until an independent adversarial verification pass confirms it against the certifying source. The daily UL 3700 watch stamps https://solar.agentlookups.ai/watch/state.json (verdict still-zero | found | degraded).
A state absent from this registry is a statement about the registry, not about that state's law. Do not infer legality or illegality from absence.
solar_states or /v1/states. Do not rely on a list copied from somewhere else, including this page.unknown state "ZZ": expected a two-letter US state or DC code, e.g. "UT", or a full state name, e.g. "Utah". The input is not a US state or DC. Give a two-letter code, such as MD, or a full name, such as Maryland. Upper or lower case both work. If the state was missing or empty, the same error starts state is required.tracked: false, or HTTP 404 with "error":"state not found" and "tracked":false from /v1/state/. The state is not in the registry. Check that you sent the right state, then call solar_states for the current list. This says nothing about that state's law./mcp. The client sent GET or another method that is not POST. This server takes POST only./mcp. The request was a batch (a JSON array) or was not valid JSON. Send one JSON-RPC request per POST.checked_at is more than about 30 hours old, the watch itself is broken. Do not trust its verdict as current, and tell us at support@agentlookups.ai.One privacy page and one set of terms cover all six agentlookups.ai services. In short: no accounts, no cookies, no trackers. A /v1/state/ address names the state (such as /v1/state/UT or /v1/state/Utah), so the state as you typed it lands in the web server's lookup log, which is deleted after 14 days. If you sign up for the certification alert on the website, we keep the email address you typed, and the state if you picked one, until you ask us to delete them. If you unsubscribe, the address stays on a do-not-email list so we never email you again.
GreenLight is run by TopHat Monkey Software LLC.
Last updated: September 28, 2026