[ziggus]

The founders may have energy industry experience - which is what you want, since it's the operating domain and they'll have industry information and contacts that 'outsiders' won't - but they seem to have a pretty strong development team: https://utilityapi.com/team.

[qqqwerty]

The founder is pretty active on hn[1]. And coincidentally, his most recent comment is about why it makes sense to work at an energy company as part of market research.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=diafygi