
Connects Claude to the EU Joint Research Centre's PVGIS system for solar energy calculations. You get two tools: monthly_radiation for long-term irradiation averages on horizontal or tilted surfaces, and tmy for typical meteorological year data with hourly resolution. Useful when you're modeling photovoltaic system performance, estimating solar potential for a location, or need climate-representative datasets for energy simulations. Runs through Pipeworx's gateway, which means you can either use this standalone or get it bundled with their 250+ other data sources. The ask_pipeworx function lets you query in natural language instead of calling tools directly, which is handy for exploratory work.
PVGIS MCP — EU JRC Photovoltaic Geographical Information System. Models PV system output for any location. No auth.
Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1476+ live data sources.
pv_performance(latitude, longitude, peakpower, ...) — annual / monthly PV yield estimatestmy(latitude, longitude, year_min?, year_max?) — typical meteorological year (hourly)monthly_radiation(latitude, longitude, ...) — long-term monthly irradiationhttps://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/api/v5_3/ — public, no auth.
Coverage: global, but most accurate for Europe / Africa / Asia (uses PVGIS-SARAH3, PVGIS-NSRDB, PVGIS-ERA5).
Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):
{
"mcpServers": {
"pvgis": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pvgis/mcp"
}
}
}
tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pvgis/mcp returns the tools in the table
above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx,
discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the
gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a
single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the
pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and
is the authoritative answer for a given day.
This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a
scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via
ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a
second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without
them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth,
connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.
Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pipeworx": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
}
}
}
Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1476+ data sources. The
only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx
reaches all of them from either one.
Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:
ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Pvgis data" })
The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.
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