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Uplight

Challenger#6 in Climate & Energy

Utility clean energy software platform for demand response and EV managed charging; serving 80 utilities with behavioral energy programs and virtual power plant capabilities.

Best for: Customer Engagement & Efficiency
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Climate & EnergyCustomer Engagement & EfficiencyWebsiteUpdated March 2026

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Company Overview

About Uplight

Uplight is a clean energy technology company providing SaaS software to utilities — demand response programs, energy efficiency analytics, behavioral energy programs, and electric vehicle managed charging — helping utility customers reduce peak demand, manage grid load, and transition to clean energy. Founded through the merger of multiple utility software companies (Tendril, EnergySavvy, Bidgee, and others) under Uplight in 2019, the company is backed by Schneider Electric (which holds a minority stake) and private equity and serves approximately 80 utilities globally.

Business Model & Competitive Advantage

Uplight's platform connects utilities with their customers to manage the "distributed energy" opportunity — the growing proliferation of solar panels, battery storage, smart thermostats, EVs, and smart appliances in homes that represent both grid management challenges and grid flexibility resources. Uplight's software enables utilities to communicate with customers about energy-saving opportunities, automatically enroll customers in demand response programs, and manage EV charging to avoid overloading the grid during peak hours.

Competitive Landscape 2025–2026

In 2025, Uplight is positioned at the center of the energy transition technology stack for utilities — as EVs, heat pumps, and rooftop solar proliferate, utilities need sophisticated software to manage two-way energy flows and distributed flexible load. The company competes with Oracle Utilities, Itron, and smaller demand response platforms for utility customer engagement and grid management software. Uplight's 2025 strategy focuses on EV managed charging programs (coordinating when EVs charge to minimize grid impact), virtual power plant software (aggregating distributed battery and EV resources into grid services), and deepening its behavioral energy program capabilities.

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Architecting the Modern Grid: A Playbook for Pivotal Utility-Vendor Partnerships

In the energy sector, we often speak about the “trilemma” of energy: security, reliability, and affordibility. But for the modern utility executive, there is a second, internal trilemma: digitalization, decarbonization, and now, industrialization of AI. As these waves of change crash against the shore of traditional infrastructure, a clear distinction has emerged between utilities that Read More The post Architecting the Modern Grid: A Playbook for Pivotal Utility-Vendor Partnerships appeared first on Uplight .

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July’s Heat Dome Put DR on the Front Lines with One of Our Biggest Event Weeks to Date

Just over a year after the June 2025 heat dome resulted in a record-breaking week of demand response, another heat dome settled over much of the United States—and once again, demand response was a key lever in the utility demand stack for keeping the grid steady. The heat wave that built through the July 4th Read More The post July’s Heat Dome Put DR on the Front Lines with One of Our Biggest Event Weeks to Date appeared first on Uplight .

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How Uplight Leverages AI to Accelerate Demand Stack Growth

AI—and more specifically, machine learning (ML) capabilities—has been a core part of Uplight’s product strategy since the company’s launch in 2020. Since then, we’ve continued to improve our data quality, ML models, and AI strategy to reach, motivate, and activate even more energy customers at scale. Uplight’s data platform aggregates data from 22 million meters, Read More The post How Uplight Leverages AI to Accelerate Demand Stack Growth appeared first on Uplight .

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One Million DR Enrollments in North America: Activating Customers at Scale for a Smarter Grid

In June, Uplight reached an exciting milestone: one million enrollments across our demand response programs in North America! This means that we have one million devices and behavioral demand response (BDR) enrollments actively participating in the grid. We’ve already run 241 events this summer and have added 246 MWuM through new enrollments in the month Read More The post One Million DR Enrollments in North America: Activating Customers at Scale for a Smarter Grid appeared first on Uplight .

Key Differentiators

Strong Challenger

Uplight is an established challenger with significant market presence and competitive offerings in Climate & Energy.

Top 10 Ranked

Ranked #6 in the Climate & Energy category, among the industry's best.

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