Arcadia

Arcadia is a climate technology company that connects households and businesses to renewable energy, mainly through community solar subscriptions and green tariffs. Homeowners and renters link their utility account to a local solar farm and get production credits applied to their regular electricity bill, usually netting some savings without any panels, upfront cost, or termination fees. Arcadia manages the logistics of enrollment and billing behind the scenes, which is why it has grown into the largest community solar manager in the U.S., a position reinforced by the 2025 merger of its community solar arm with Perch Energy to expand capacity across more states.

On the business side, Arcadia has built out Arc, a utility data and energy intelligence platform used by enterprises, utilities, and other energy apps. Arc pulls together account and meter data across a company's utility accounts so a business can pay bills, monitor rates, forecast costs, and model the value of solar, storage, or electrification projects from one dashboard. Acquisitions like RPD Energy and Engie Impact have pushed this side of the business further into energy procurement and carbon reporting for large enterprise customers, including a meaningful share of the Fortune 500.

What sets Arcadia apart is that it operates on both ends of the energy market at once: a consumer-facing product that gets ordinary electricity customers onto solar without any hardware, and an API-driven data platform that lets other companies build energy products on top of the same utility connections Arcadia has already built out. Few competitors span both the household subscription side and the enterprise data infrastructure side under one roof.