# voltcast

**Category:** 💰 Finance & Fintech  
**Repository:** https://github.com/Voltcast-com/mcp  
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**Directory Page:** https://allmcps.com/mcp/voltcast

## Description
European day-ahead electricity prices (43 zones), accuracy-published forecasts, carbon, optimize.

## Claude Desktop Quick Installation
Heuristic fallback — verify the package name and runner against the repository README before running it. Uses `npx` (confidence: low):

```json
"mcpServers": {
  "voltcast": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": ["-y","voltcast"]
  }
}
```

## Documentation & README

# Voltcast MCP Server — European electricity prices, forecasts & carbon

[Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server for
[Voltcast](https://voltcast.com): day-ahead electricity prices for 43 European
bidding zones (15-minute native resolution, history to 2015), probabilistic
price forecasts whose accuracy is published daily at
[voltcast.com/accuracy](https://voltcast.com/accuracy), carbon intensity, and
cheapest-window optimization.

Two ways to run it:

## 1. Hosted endpoint (recommended)

```
https://voltcast.com/api/mcp
```

Streamable HTTP transport, protocol `2025-06-18`. Server card:
[`/.well-known/mcp.json`](https://voltcast.com/.well-known/mcp.json).

## 2. Local stdio server (this repo)

```bash
VOLTCAST_API_KEY=your_key npx voltcast-mcp
```

Or with Docker:

```bash
docker build -t voltcast-mcp .
docker run -i -e VOLTCAST_API_KEY=your_key voltcast-mcp
```

The stdio server is a thin proxy onto the same REST API — identical tools,
auth and rate limits. It starts and answers introspection without a key;
`list_zones` works keyless too.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "voltcast": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["voltcast-mcp"],
      "env": { "VOLTCAST_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}
```

## Tools

| Tool | Auth | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| `list_zones` | none | The 43-zone registry (codes, names, currencies) |
| `get_prices` | key | Day-ahead prices for a zone/date, 15-minute native |
| `get_forecast` | key | P50 (and P10/P90 on paid tiers) price curve up to 7 days ahead |
| `get_carbon` | key | Carbon intensity + green score from the live generation mix |
| `get_renewables` | key | Wind/solar forecasts (TSO + Voltcast model) vs realized |
| `cheapest_window` | key | Cheapest contiguous window for a load in the next 48h |

## Auth

`Authorization: Bearer <api key>` — free tier (no card) at
[voltcast.com/register](https://voltcast.com/register). `list_zones` works
without a key.

## Client config

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "voltcast": {
      "url": "https://voltcast.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}
```

## Honesty, stated plainly

Every forecast the server returns is benchmarked daily against a naive
baseline in public — losses included. Zones where the model loses are free
to use under the guarantee. Data sources: ENTSO-E Transparency Platform,
SMARD.de (CC BY 4.0), attributed in every response.