UtilityAPI

UtilityAPI is an American software company that builds data exchange infrastructure for the utility industry, allowing utility customers to authorize the secure transfer of their energy usage data to third parties through a compliant platform and API. The company serves utilities, solution providers, and program administrators from its operations in the United States.^[1]

The company reports having served more than 2,500 companies, processing over 2 million total data transactions across coverage of more than 25 utilities.^[2] In January 2025, El Paso Electric announced an integrated Green Button data access solution built with Oracle and UtilityAPI, enabling residential and commercial customers to opt in to automated sharing of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) interval usage data with authorized vendors.^[3]

What It Does

UtilityAPI operates a platform that replaces manual, insecure utility data sharing processes with a utility-controlled authorization flow. For utilities, its Utility Data Exchange (UDX) product is designed to reduce operational costs and accelerate program enrollment while protecting customer privacy. For solution providers such as solar installers, battery deployers, and energy management firms, it standardizes access to customer-meter data that would otherwise require bespoke integrations with each utility.^[1]

The company frames three main audiences: utilities sharing customer data, solution providers consuming it, and program administrators who qualify customers and track performance of rebate and electrification programs across multiple utility territories.^[1]

Products

Core products include the Utility Data Exchange for utilities, meter-data APIs and a no-code dashboard for solution providers, and integrations with partner platforms. Published use cases include site assessment for solar and storage, market settlement, energy management, and access to rebates.^[1][3]

In the El Paso Electric deployment, UtilityAPI provides the authorization management layer through which third parties and end consumers grant access, while Oracle's Opower platform supplies usage datasets; large commercial customers can self-authorize access to all their accounts in a single file via API. CEO Devin Hampton described the integration as meeting Green Button compliance while giving approved vendors seamless access via dashboard or API.^[3]

Delivery and Pricing

Data is delivered programmatically through documented APIs and through web dashboards, with public API documentation maintained at utilityapi.com/docs.^[1] The company publishes separate pricing for solution providers on its website.^[1]

History

Devin Hampton, a former Department of Energy official in the Obama administration, has served as UtilityAPI's chief executive officer since 2019. Ashley Leonard joined as chief financial officer in early 2024, and Josh Keeling, previously of Generac, Cadmus, and Portland General Electric, serves as chief commercial officer and chairs the Green Button Alliance.^[2]

The company positions itself within the Green Button ecosystem, and its work with Oracle on El Paso Electric's Green Button Download My Data (DMD) and Connect My Data (CMD) certified requirements was announced in January 2025.^[3]

Buyers and Use Cases

Customers and partners cited by the company include utilities such as AEP and El Paso Electric, and solution providers including Sunrun, GRID Alternatives, Scale Microgrids, and Amped Solutions. Typical use cases include producing solar quotes using actual customer usage and rate plans rather than estimates, deploying batteries without weeks-long manual data collection, and running utility rebate programs on standardized data access.^[1][3]