# Uplight

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/uplight/  
**Website:** https://uplight.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 19.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 19.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 19.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 32.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (1)

- **Uplight Developer Platform API** — Uplight markets a Developer Platform that exposes customer, program, eligibility, enrollment, device, and energy-flexibility data to utilities and ecosystem partners through API...

## Security (2)

- **Uplight Authentication** — http-bearer · 1 scheme
- **Uplight Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Energy, United States, Utilities, Electricity, Gas, Demand Response, DER, Grid, Virtual Power Plant, DERMS, Energy Efficiency, Customer Engagement

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/uplight/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.