# Overview * Instant utility support: Bayou now authenticates accounts in one second and returns data within 60 seconds or less for utilities covering 48% of the US population * Address data: Each meter's physical address is now available in a common data model across all utilities * Tariff data [early access]: Each meter's utility tariff is provided along with contextual information required to use Bayou alongside a tariff database product # Instant utility support Bayou now authenticates accounts in one second and returns data within 60 seconds or less for utilities covering 48% of the US population.

New instant utilities that have been added since March 1st, 2024 are: 1. AES Indiana 2. Austin Utilities 3. Citizens Energy 4. El Paso Electric 5. Florida Power and Light 6. Jersey Central Power and Light 7. LADWPD 8. NYSEG 9. PECO 10. PEPCO 11. Portland General Electric 12. PSEG New Jersey 13. Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) 14. Sacramento Municipal Utility District 15. Southern California Edison {` View full utility support here `} # Address data Each meter's physical address is now available in a common data model across all utilities ```json JSON "address": { "line_1": "123 Main St", "line_2": "Apt 1", "city": "New York", "state": "NY", "postal_code": 10001, "postal_code_suffix": 1234, "country": "US" } ``` * line_1: The full street address for this meter * line_2: The second line of the street address for this meter (example: Apt 1, Unit A, Suite 100) * city * state: two letter abbreviation for the state (example: NY) * postal_code: the postal code or zip code (within the US) for the meter * postal_code_suffix: suffix after the postal code (example: in 10001-1234, 1234 is the suffix) * country {` The address object is provided within the data model for the bill and customer endpoints and within the bills_ready and new_bill webhooks. `} # Tariff data [early access]: {` Each meter's utility tariff is provided along with contextual information required to use Bayou alongside a tariff database product. The tariff object is provided within the customers data model within each meter of the customer record's hierarchy. `}
```json JSON { "id": 12345, "external_id": null, "email": "huntingtonbigwave@gmail.com", "first_name": null, "last_name": null, "phone_number": null, "address_line_1": null, "address_line_2": null, "city": null, "state": null, "zipcode": null, "utility": "southern_california_edison", "onboarding_link": "https://staging.bayou.energy/companies/9/onboard/007237ca2541bd63polmn214db25a50ce384a390b250po037e0c2045ea3c536d_1716510848_40394f8eop27b8db0f672d403e52efc8fc811ecdb2b402a1dfc00ec140c30faa3", "onboarding_token": "007237ca2541bd63polmn214db25a50ce384a390b250po037e0c2045ea3c536d_1716510848_40394f8eop27b8db0f672d403e52efc8fc811ecdb2b402a1dfc00ec140c30faa3", "tags": [], "has_accepted_terms_on": "2024-05-14T00:26:44Z", "has_filled_credentials": true, "bills_are_ready": true, "utility_has_intervals": true, "account_has_intervals": true, "intervals_are_ready": true, "first_interval_discovered": "2023-04-13T07:00:00Z", "last_interval_discovered": "2024-05-13T06:45:00Z", "account_numbers": [ { "id": "700000976593", "meters": [ { "id": "409833-123086", "type": "electric", "address": { "line_1": "103 Pacific Coast Hwy", "line_2": "Apt 1", "city": "Huntington Beach", "state": "CA", "postal_code": 92648, "postal_code_suffix": 4305, "country": "US" }, "tariffs": [ { "period_from": "2021-06-11", "period_to": "2023-07-12", "name": "DOMESTIC", "code": "D", "mapping": { "wattbuy": { "utility_id": "17609", "tariff_id": "6618467c49adafec1c02fa92", "baseline_territory": null } } }, { "period_from": "2023-07-12", "period_to": "2024-05-13", "name": "TOUD-5-8PM (SCE)", "code": "TOU-D-5-8PM", "mapping": { "wattbuy": { "utility_id": "17609", "tariff_id": "64ac3fff756f4c58c25835e7", "baseline_territory": null } } } ], "tags": [] } ] } ] } ``` * Each Bayou customer records corresponds to one set of customer utility login credentials. Once a customer connects their account, Bayou creates a hierarchy of each of the customer's account numbers and each meter within each account number. * For each meter the tariff data is within the "tariffs" object. * Here each tariff is shown with: * period_from and period_to: billing dates that meter was enrolled in the tariff * tariff.name: name of the tariff from the customer's utility bill * tariff.code: tariff code assigned by the utility to that tariff. While this isn't always provided by the utility, codes are common. * tariff.mapping: Contextual information required to map the customer's unique tariff to a tariff database product. * For each meter, its entire tariff history is provided. {`

To start, this is available for Southern California Edison bridging to WattBuy’s tariff API and will be extended to all Bayou’s instant utilities bridging to additional tariff products based on demand. Schedule a call or email us