Portal Updates
Portal Development Roadmap
The Portal Development Roadmap is designed to preview upcoming, planned development for the Illinois Shines portal. Updates on the following planned activities will be provided in weekly Program announcements, and detailed below in the Portal Updates Blog in conjunction with software releases.
| Roadmap Update: September 16, 2025 | |
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| QUARTER 3 2025 (July, August, September) | AV & Designee Management AVs and Designees can now view their AV and Designee relationships. This feature enables a future feature where AVs can manage their own Designee relationships. |
| QUARTER 4 2025 (October, November, December) | Subscriber Management Foundations Foundational development for Community Solar Subscriber Management capability to begin. This feature will allow AVs and Designees to view, create, edit, and terminate subscription records within the Portal. |
| QUARTER 1 2026 (January, February, March) | Subscriber Management Traditional Community Solar Scores Batch Fee Report |
Portal Updates Blog
The Program Administrator will use this space to provide ongoing portal updates on releases of features and functions (newly-available and planned); issue and bug reports, investigations, and resolutions; updates on data availability and reports; changes to portal materials/documents or appearance; new technical documentation and support; and more.
Annual Report Draft Drawdown Results, CDCS Random Selection Event, MES Mid-Year Report Submission Deadline
The IPA announces new information
March 19, 2025
Enhancements: Helper text on REC Incentive Calculator Additional helper text has been added to the Payment Calculator in the Illinois Shines Incentive Payment section of the DG Disclosure Forms to
March 10, 2025
Enhancements: PVWatts® Calculation: Automated lookup of latitude and longitude from address. The Program Administrator implemented an additional automated step to convert addresses to latitude and longitude coordinates based on Amazon
Upcoming Portal Maintenance and Releases
Please note that an additional maintenance window to implement changes, making the coordinates fields required, in the Portal has been scheduled for Monday, March 10, 2025, from 8:00 p.m. to
March 5, 2025
Enhancements: API: DG Purchase validation rule “transfer_requirements” (If you move) field should always be required. API Only: API validation rules for calls to create Disclosure Forms for DG Projects have
February 19, 2025
Bug Fixes: E-Sign Email for DG Disclosure Forms are not in Spanish. Disclosure Form Signature Requests for DG Disclosure Forms in Spanish were contacting the signer with an email requesting
February 5, 2025
Market Facing Bugfixes: Cannot submit app when interconnecting Utility Changed Between Part 1 and 2 (from ComEd). Issue: When a Part I project application was originally submitted with the Interconnecting Utility