{"tools":[{"name":"grid_context","description":"Summarize the power grid around a Texas address or coordinate: county, the likely serving utility, the 3 nearest substations with voltage and distance, transmission lines nearby, ERCOT generation queue projects nearby, and planned transmission upgrades within 25 miles. Use when someone asks what power infrastructure is near a site, whether a property could host a data center, battery or large load, or who the utility is.","input":{"type":"object","properties":{"address":{"type":"string","description":"Texas street address, e.g. '1201 Main St, Houston, TX'. Use this or lat/lng."},"lat":{"type":"number","description":"Latitude (WGS84). Use with lng instead of address."},"lng":{"type":"number","description":"Longitude (WGS84). Use with lat instead of address."},"radius_mi":{"type":"number","description":"Search radius in miles for lines and queue projects. Default 5, max 25."}}},"endpoint":"https://grid.barrioenergy.com/v1/grid_context"},{"name":"nearest_substation","description":"Find the closest high-voltage substations to a Texas address or coordinate, with voltage, owner and distance in miles. Use when someone asks where power is near a site or how far a property is from a substation.","input":{"type":"object","properties":{"address":{"type":"string","description":"Texas street address, e.g. '1201 Main St, Houston, TX'. Use this or lat/lng."},"lat":{"type":"number","description":"Latitude (WGS84). Use with lng instead of address."},"lng":{"type":"number","description":"Longitude (WGS84). Use with lat instead of address."},"min_kv":{"type":"number","description":"Minimum substation voltage in kV. Default 69. Use 138 or 345 for large loads."},"limit":{"type":"integer","description":"How many substations. Default 5, max 20."}}},"endpoint":"https://grid.barrioenergy.com/v1/nearest_substation"},{"name":"find_powered_land","description":"Search for land parcels in Texas that sit close to a high-voltage substation: powered land for data centers, battery storage, crypto mining or other large loads. Filter by county or by a point and radius, minimum acreage, maximum distance to a substation and minimum substation voltage. Returns parcel acreage, location, and the nearest qualifying substation with its owner. Parcel coverage is limited to the counties listed in the response.","input":{"type":"object","properties":{"county":{"type":"string","description":"Texas county name, e.g. 'Jackson'. Use this or a location."},"address":{"type":"string","description":"Texas street address, e.g. '1201 Main St, Houston, TX'. Use this or lat/lng."},"lat":{"type":"number","description":"Latitude (WGS84). Use with lng instead of address."},"lng":{"type":"number","description":"Longitude (WGS84). Use with lat instead of address."},"radius_mi":{"type":"number","description":"Radius around the location in miles. Default 10, max 50."},"min_acres":{"type":"number","description":"Minimum parcel size in acres. Default 5."},"max_sub_mi":{"type":"number","description":"Maximum distance from parcel to substation in miles. Default 3, max 10."},"min_kv":{"type":"number","description":"Minimum substation voltage in kV. Default 138."},"limit":{"type":"integer","description":"Maximum parcels returned. Default 25, max 25 on the free tier."}}},"endpoint":"https://grid.barrioenergy.com/v1/find_powered_land"},{"name":"ercot_queue","description":"List ERCOT generation interconnection queue projects (solar, wind, battery storage, gas) near a Texas address or coordinate, or in a county, with fuel, MW, study status and distance. Use when someone asks what generation or storage is planned nearby, how congested an area is, or about the ERCOT queue in a county.","input":{"type":"object","properties":{"county":{"type":"string","description":"Texas county name. Use this or a location."},"address":{"type":"string","description":"Texas street address, e.g. '1201 Main St, Houston, TX'. Use this or lat/lng."},"lat":{"type":"number","description":"Latitude (WGS84). Use with lng instead of address."},"lng":{"type":"number","description":"Longitude (WGS84). Use with lat instead of address."},"radius_mi":{"type":"number","description":"Radius in miles. Default 10, max 50."},"limit":{"type":"integer","description":"Default 50, max 100."}}},"endpoint":"https://grid.barrioenergy.com/v1/ercot_queue"},{"name":"node_prices","description":"ERCOT wholesale power prices around a Texas address or coordinate, or for a named settlement point: the load zone price for the location, the nearest resource nodes (generator and battery pricing points) with distance, and the trading hubs. Returns day-ahead hourly settlement point prices ($/MWh) for the last 7 days by default with daily average, max, min, peak and off-peak averages, hours over $100 and negative hours; Pro can request up to 120 days and hourly real-time averages. Use when someone asks what power costs or sells for at a location, how volatile prices are near a site, what a battery would see at a node, or which node or load zone a site settles in.","input":{"type":"object","properties":{"address":{"type":"string","description":"Texas street address, e.g. '1201 Main St, Houston, TX'. Use this or lat/lng."},"lat":{"type":"number","description":"Latitude (WGS84). Use with lng instead of address."},"lng":{"type":"number","description":"Longitude (WGS84). Use with lat instead of address."},"settlement_point":{"type":"string","description":"ERCOT settlement point name, e.g. HB_HOUSTON, LZ_SOUTH or a resource node like FO_FORMOSG6. Use this instead of a location to get one node's full series."},"days":{"type":"integer","description":"Days of history. Default 7. Max 30 on the free tier, 120 on Pro."},"limit":{"type":"integer","description":"How many nearby resource nodes. Default 6, max 15."}}},"endpoint":"https://grid.barrioenergy.com/v1/node_prices"},{"name":"volatile_nodes","description":"Rank ERCOT settlement points by battery-storage value over the last N days using day-ahead prices: TB2 and TB4 (average daily top-minus-bottom 2-hour and 4-hour spreads, the standard arbitrage metric), annualized TB4 revenue per MW, hourly standard deviation, coefficient of variation, daily range, hours over $100 and negative hours. Filter to a load zone, or to nodes within a radius of an address or coordinate. Use when someone asks where a battery would make the most money, which nodes are most volatile, where prices spike or go negative, or how a site compares for storage. Default: top 20 resource nodes statewide by TB4 over 30 days.","input":{"type":"object","properties":{"address":{"type":"string","description":"Texas street address, e.g. '1201 Main St, Houston, TX'. Use this or lat/lng."},"lat":{"type":"number","description":"Latitude (WGS84). Use with lng instead of address."},"lng":{"type":"number","description":"Longitude (WGS84). Use with lat instead of address."},"radius_mi":{"type":"number","description":"With a location: only nodes within this many miles. Default 50, max 150."},"load_zone":{"type":"string","description":"Restrict to a load zone: LZ_HOUSTON, LZ_NORTH, LZ_SOUTH, LZ_WEST, LZ_AEN, LZ_CPS, LZ_LCRA, LZ_RAYBN."},"days":{"type":"integer","description":"Window in days. Default 30. Max 30 free, 120 Pro."},"metric":{"type":"string","enum":["tb4","tb2","stdev","cv","range","spikes","negative","avg"],"description":"Ranking metric. Default tb4."},"include_zones_and_hubs":{"type":"boolean","description":"Also rank load zones and hubs alongside resource nodes. Default false."},"limit":{"type":"integer","description":"Default 20, max 50 (15 on the free tier)."}}},"endpoint":"https://grid.barrioenergy.com/v1/volatile_nodes"},{"name":"upgrade_to_pro","description":"Get the checkout link for Barrio Grid Connector Pro (249 USD per month: 5,000 calls a month, parcel searches up to 200 results and 50 miles). Use when the user hits the free limit or asks for more calls or data. Checkout is Stripe and accepts Link. Only buy with the user's explicit approval. The API key is emailed to the email used at checkout; add it to this connector as a Bearer token.","input":{"type":"object","properties":{"email":{"type":"string","description":"Email to prefill at checkout; the key is sent there."}}},"endpoint":"https://grid.barrioenergy.com/v1/upgrade_to_pro"}],"mcp":"https://grid.barrioenergy.com/mcp","attribution":{"source":"Barrio Energy GeoIntel","url":"https://barrioenergy.com/grid","contact":"ivan@barrioenergy.com","data":"HIFLD (substations, transmission), ERCOT GIS reports (generation queue), TNRIS StratMap (parcels), Barrio research (planned upgrades)","note":"Screening data only. Confirm capacity and interconnection with the TDU."}}