Bayou Energy

Name

Bayou Energy

Legal name

Bayou Energy, Inc.

Website

https://bayou.energy

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Utility Data API

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Self-Service & Customer Portals (web/mobile, e-bill, notifications, consumption dashboards) (EUANAIAI)

Keywords

• Utility data API
• Clean energy data
• Interval meter data
• Utility bill API
• Energy data platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Seattle

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Per-meter annual API subscription: $24 per meter per year, pay-as-you-go with no setup, sales calls, or hidden fees. Includes customer bill, interval, and account data with unlimited API calls. Recurring revenue with land-and-expand as customers add meters.
2. Freemium / free tier: First 10 unique meters per account are free, lowering barrier to trial and enabling self-serve adoption before customers convert to paid usage.
3. Unlock-based data consumption fee: Bills and interval data must be explicitly unlocked (entirely or partially) via API before they are billable. 12 months of historical data or 12 months of ongoing data access is bundled into the $24/meter/year price.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion5 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Bayou Energy operates the Bayou Utility API, a REST platform that authenticates customer utility portal accounts and returns normalized bill, interval usage, and account data from 60+ US and Canadian utilities in under 60 seconds. The product is sold to clean energy software companies and installers (solar, community solar, batteries, heat pumps, EV chargers, electrification) on a self-serve $24 per meter per year subscription, with the first 10 meters free.

Product overview

Bayou Energy operates a single unified platform — the Bayou Utility API — that aggregates customer utility data from 60+ US and Canadian utilities, supplemented by a portfolio of add-on modules and interfaces: the Bayou Embedded Component for drop-in user-facing authorization flows, the Bill Upload (Beta) module for ingesting bills from unsupported utilities, Bayou Automated MFA for handling multi-factor authentication challenges, the no-code Bayou Dashboard for non-developer access, and the Speculoos Power sandbox utility for testing. Together these products let integrators pull accounts, meters, bills, interval usage, and tariff data through one consistent REST contract rather than building per-utility scrapers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Bayou Utility API REST API that retrieves residential and commercial utility customer data (accounts, meters, bills, interval usage, and tariff/rate information) from 60+ US and Canadian utilities, with webhooks for async updates.
• Bayou Dashboard
• Bayou Embedded Component White-label UI component that customers' end users can be redirected to in order to complete utility login and MFA flows without the integrator building a custom screen.

Quantifiable outcome

• Solstice reduced enrollment time by 82% after switching to Bayou's instant authentication
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration12 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered strategic integration and event partner.

• WattBuystrategic integrationTechnology or IntegrationWattBuy tariff API integration referenced in May 2024 Utility API Update as the first tariff-database partner; Bayou exposes Southern California Edison tariff data with a wattbuy mapping object.
• Palmettoevent partnerGTM or Marketing PartnerCo-participant / co-sponsor in the SF Climate Week 2025 Energy Hackathon, providing API access to hackathon developers.
• Shovelsevent partnerGTM or Marketing PartnerCo-participant / co-sponsor in the SF Climate Week 2025 Energy Hackathon, providing API access to hackathon developers.
• Textureevent partnerGTM or Marketing PartnerCo-participant / co-sponsor in the SF Climate Week 2025 Energy Hackathon, providing API access to hackathon developers.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Arcadia: Arcadia operates a clean-energy data platform that connects to utilities on behalf of customers and serves solar, community solar, and retail energy suppliers — directly comparable to Bayou's customer base and product offering, with Bayou explicitly publishing side-by-side comparisons against Arcadia's tiered RTCV vs Standard authentication experience.
• UtilityAPI: UtilityAPI provides a utility data API for clean energy companies and is named by Bayou as a primary competitor. Both target the same solar/electrification use cases, though Bayou markets against UtilityAPI's longer 5-15+ minute data window and reportedly narrower 16% US meter coverage.

Emerging players

• WattBuy: WattBuy operates a utility rate and tariff API used by energy-marketplace and solar-sizing products. Bayou lists WattBuy as its first tariff-database integration partner (May 2024), making WattBuy both a complement and a partial competitor for utility-data-stack buyers.
• Genability: Genability provides utility rate and tariff data APIs for solar, storage, and EV use cases. Overlaps with Bayou's tariff-data roadmap and competes for the same energy-software developer audience building electrification and savings products.
• Recurve: Recurve is an energy data analytics platform focused on distributed energy resources and grid flexibility. Comparable in serving the DER/VPP/data-driven energy efficiency ecosystem, though Recurve is more analytics-heavy and Bayou is more raw data delivery.

Broad incumbents

• Uplight: Uplight is an established utility customer engagement and energy-data platform serving IOUs and clean-energy programs. Operates adjacent to Bayou's space at much greater scale and with utility-side (rather than clean-energy integrator) customers.
• EnergyHub: EnergyHub is a DERMS and demand-response platform used by utilities to manage residential DERs and VPPs. Adjacent to Bayou's VPP/demand-response customer segment (where interval data is mission-critical) but operates at the utility side of the market.

Regional players

• Solar Analytics: Solar Analytics offers utility data integration and solar performance monitoring primarily across Australia. Closely comparable product offering (utility data + solar/electrification use cases) but serves a different geography than Bayou's US/Canada focus.

Others

• Pick My Solar: Pick My Solar is a solar marketplace and software platform that has historically integrated utility data into its homeowner experience. Operates downstream of Bayou as a potential customer/marketplace layer rather than a direct API competitor.
• OpenEI: OpenEI is an open energy data repository offering utility rate and building energy datasets. Conceptually adjacent as a public utility-data resource, though Bayou offers authenticated, customer-specific data while OpenEI publishes aggregated reference data.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/BayouEnergy
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bayouenergy

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors5 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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