Uplight is a Boulder, Colorado energy technology company formed in 2019 from the merger of Tendril and Simple Energy and expanded through the acquisitions of EnergySavvy, FirstFuel, Ecotagious, EEme, and DERMS/VPP provider AutoGrid (closed February 2024). It sells software to electric and gas utilities and retailers in North America, Europe, and Asia rather than to consumers, covering energy efficiency and electrification marketplaces, home energy reports, rate engagement, demand response, distributed energy resource management (DERMS), virtual power plants, and a utility data lake with analytics. In the United States value chain Uplight sits on the utility side of the meter as a vendor and orchestration layer between the utility, its customers, and connected devices, and it publicly states support for OpenADR, IEEE 2030.5, Modbus, DNP3 and other SCADA protocols for DER control. Its API posture is honestly closed — a Developer Platform exists and is marketed to utilities and ecosystem partners, the documentation portal at docs.uplight.com serves a public landing shell but every Documentation and API Reference path redirects to a ReadMe login, and the production gateway at api.uplight.com answers anonymously only with HTTP 401 and a bearer-token error. No consumer usage-data API, no open market data, no downloadable OpenAPI, and no Green Button or ESPI reference could be found. Uplight is a software vendor, not a regulated data holder, so no consumer data mandate applies to it.
Uplight publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Energy, United States, Utilities, Electricity, and Gas.
Uplight’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, engineering blog, privacy policy, and 18 more developer resources.
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Uplight markets a Developer Platform that exposes customer, program, eligibility, enrollment, device, and energy-flexibility data to utilities and ecosystem partners through API...
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name: Uplight
kind: company
description: Uplight is a Boulder, Colorado energy technology company formed in 2019 from the merger of Tendril and Simple
Energy and expanded through the acquisitions of EnergySavvy, FirstFuel, Ecotagious, EEme, and DERMS/VPP provider AutoGrid
(closed February 2024). It sells software to electric and gas utilities and retailers in North America, Europe, and Asia
rather than to consumers, covering energy efficiency and electrification marketplaces, home energy reports, rate engagement,
demand response, distributed energy resource management (DERMS), virtual power plants, and a utility data lake with analytics.
In the United States value chain Uplight sits on the utility side of the meter as a vendor and orchestration layer between
the utility, its customers, and connected devices, and it publicly states support for OpenADR, IEEE 2030.5, Modbus, DNP3
and other SCADA protocols for DER control. Its API posture is honestly closed — a Developer Platform exists and is marketed
to utilities and ecosystem partners, the documentation portal at docs.uplight.com serves a public landing shell but every
Documentation and API Reference path redirects to a ReadMe login, and the production gateway at api.uplight.com answers
anonymously only with HTTP 401 and a bearer-token error. No consumer usage-data API, no open market data, no downloadable
OpenAPI, and no Green Button or ESPI reference could be found. Uplight is a software vendor, not a regulated data holder,
so no consumer data mandate applies to it.
deliveryModel:
model: saas
open_source: false
commercial: true
callable_host: false
label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
confidence: medium
source:
- pricing
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
source:
- authentication
- security
generated: '2026-09-03'
method: derived
image: https://uplight.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cropped-uplight-icon-1-192x192.png
tags:
- Energy
- United States
- Utilities
- Electricity
- Gas
- Demand Response
- DER
- Grid
- Virtual Power Plant
- DERMS
- Energy Efficiency
- Customer Engagement
created: '2026-07-27'
modified: '2026-07-27'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: uplight:uplight-developer-platform-api
name: Uplight Developer Platform API
description: Uplight markets a Developer Platform that exposes customer, program, eligibility, enrollment, device, and energy-flexibility
data to utilities and ecosystem partners through APIs. The reference is published on a ReadMe portal at docs.uplight.com,
but the /developer path 302-redirects to dash.readme.com login, so no operation, schema, scope, or rate limit is publicly
readable. The production gateway at api.uplight.com is real and reachable (Kong Enterprise 3.10) but returns HTTP 401
with an "Invalid or no token provided" error to every anonymous request, including /openapi.json, /swagger.json, /v1,
and /.well-known/openid-configuration. Listed here as a real but fully gated surface; no endpoints are claimed because
none are documented publicly.
humanURL: https://docs.uplight.com/
baseURL: https://api.uplight.com
tags:
- Energy
- Utilities
- Demand Response
- DER
- Customer Engagement
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://docs.uplight.com/
- type: APIReference
url: https://docs.uplight.com/developer/reference
- type: Documentation
url: https://uplight.com/platform/
- type: Documentation
url: https://uplight.com/blog/uplights-developer-platform-decisions-made-easy-for-customers-and-utilities/
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/uplight-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://uplight.com/
- type: Documentation
url: https://docs.uplight.com/
- type: APIReference
url: https://docs.uplight.com/developer/reference
- type: About
url: https://uplight.com/about-us/
- type: Platform
url: https://uplight.com/platform/
- type: Partners
url: https://uplight.com/partners/
- type: Blog
url: https://uplight.com/blog/
- type: BlogRSS
url: https://uplight.com/blog/feed/
- type: Press
url: https://uplight.com/press/
- type: Privacy
url: https://uplight.com/privacy-policy/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://uplight.com/privacy-policy/
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://uplight.com/terms-of-service/
- type: CookiePolicy
url: https://uplight.com/cookie-policy/
- type: Contact
url: https://uplight.com/contact-us/
- type: Resources
url: https://uplight.com/resources/
- type: Compliance
url: https://uplight.com/resources/integrated-approach-security-privacy-compliance/
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/uplight-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/uplight-lifecycle.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/uplight-llms.txt
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/Uplight-Inc
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/uplight
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
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