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Bayou Energy May 2026 Utility API Update

about 2 months ago by Theo Michel

Overview

  • New Utility Support: Added support for Alabama Power and Unitil, adding 1.7 million new meters and bringing our support to 71% of US electric meters.
  • API Improvements: (more details below)
    • Bill recipient name is now available as a parsed field across supported utilities, making it easier for companies to match bills to the correct customer account.
    • Companies can now further customize the appearance of the embedded utility connection form, for a more seamless integration with the hosting page.
  • General Improvements: Significant bill parsing improvements at Baltimore Gas and Electric, Central Maine Power, Duquesne Light, and others. Also improved our ability to work around anti-bot measures and preserve MFA tokens, keeping customers authenticated for longer.
  • Utility Website Updates: Maintained reliable access through MFA flow changes at Duke Energy, PSEG NJ, and Ameren, and several portal updates at other utilities.

Check out our utility support page for detailed coverage and reliability metrics.

API Improvements

Bill recipient property

We now parse the name of the bill’s recipient from the bill, and make it available in our bill json objects. The new property is in preview and disabled by default, so please let us know if you’d like to have it enabled for your company! It will be enabled for all companies on June 15th, 2026.

Here are some key pieces of info on using this field.

  • The property name is "recipient" and it is returned in responses to bill api calls and in the bills_ready and new_bill webhook payloads at the root of the bill object.
  • The recipient also shows up in the left hand side of your Bayou data dashboard when viewing a specific bill.
  • The value of the recipient property is a string containing the full name from the bill (e.g. "Miss Jane Q. Smith Esq."). In rare cases where the name from the bill occupies two lines, the line break is included in the string as a \n.
  • The recipient property is currently only populated on newly-discovered bills. Let us know if you need backfill for historical bills.

Sample bill response:

{
  "id": 12345,
  "recipient": "Miss Jane Q. Smith Esq.",
  "billed_on": "2026-04-15",
  "billing_period_from": "2026-03-15",
  "billing_period_to": "2026-04-14",
  "amount_due": 14275,
  "...": "..."
}

Onboarding form customization

Companies now have control over the background color of the onboarding form, via the Bayou dashboard's company settings page. This allows for a more seamless integration with the page that’s hosting the onboarding iframe. For more info, check out the docs here:

https://docs.bayou.energy/docs/bayou-embedded-component#customize-the-appearance-of-the-embedded-component

Additionally, the Bayou logo that was previously present at the top left corner of the iframe background has been removed, again making for a cleaner integration with the hosting page.