April 1, 2025 

Enhancement:   This enhancement allows AVs and Designees to begin an export of their Disclosure Form data to a CSV file from the Disclosure Form dashboard. The exported report will contain all Disclosure Form data for the Disclosure Forms that are currently being filtered for in the Disclosure Form dashboard view, and will be downloaded […]

April 1, 2025 

Enhancements: API Test Environment Quarterly Test Data Refresh  The Program Administrator will be conducting the quarterly purge of all API Test Environment test data and refresh of the database with the latest copy from Production on April 1, 2025. 

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 clarify that the calculator should not be used for expansions or co-located projects. 

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 Geolocation Services when running the PVWatts calculation. This update was made to accommodate a change in the PVWatts system, which now requires latitude and longitude […]

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 11:00 p.m. CPT during which time the Portal will be unavailable.  Scheduled system maintenance windows will resume on Tuesday and Thursday evenings (from 8:00 p.m. […]

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 been updated to inform user that the “transfer_requirements” key-value pair is required on all purchase projects when left null. “Transfer_requirements” will continue to be required […]

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 the signer to sign the Disclosure Form that was written in English. The Disclosure Form document itself was written in Spanish, but not the request […]

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 specified as ComEd, but the Interconnecting Utility was later updated/corrected to a different utility company during Part I Verification, submission of the Part II application […]

January 22, 2024 

Bug Fix: Net Metering: DG Disclosure Form – “What is the customer’s expected annual electricity usage in kWh?” question seems to blank out/not be saving when users resume an unsubmitted form. When resuming an existing unsubmitted Disclosure Form, the “What is the customer’s expected annual electricity usage in kWh?” question would occasionally blank out as the […]

January 7, 2025 

Enhancement: DG Disclosure Forms revised to reflect new changes to Net Metering policies effective for 2025. For more information see the Updated Distributed Generation Disclosure Forms announcement.