Portal Enhancement: API Lease – “who_keeps_rebate” has an incorrect option. (“Seller” instead of “Lessor”)
When a Lease Disclosure Form is created via API, the key “who_keeps_rebate” will now accept “Lessor” as the expected value without an error, and will indicate an error if “Seller” is selected instead. Other allowed key values of Approved Vendor, Installer and Customer will continue to be accepted.
Spanish Purchase DF Portal Enhancement: Change “Monto de la garantía retención”/ Monto de la garantía cargo to “Monto de garantía collateral”
When an Approved Vendor generates a DG Purchase Disclosure Form in Spanish for any Utility and any Customer Type after electing to answer Yes to “Will the Approved Vendor charge a collateral fee or withhold part of the customer’s REC incentive payment?” and enters “Amount of Collateral fee ($)” in the Fee and Total Cost section of the portal, the […]
Portal Enhancement: PV Watts API: Enhanced Error Messaging
For all Approved Vendors using PV Watts, when there is a data rejection which causes an error code of 422, the error message returned will include more details about the data rejection so that the Approved Vendor can resolve the data issue without having to contact the administrator for support. All Non 422 Error responses […]
Revised Menu and End of Year Program Pause
The Program Portal’s main menu will be updated in an April release, offering simplified navigation and main menu access to Disclosure Forms, project applications and batches, without need to expand AV or Designee folders to see these options. Dual-role users (acting as both AVs and Designees) will have ability to navigate to a central location to access all Disclosure Forms […]
Portal Enhancement: Ability to Initiate Export of Disclosure Form Data to CSV File
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 from a new ‘Reports’ […]
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 […]
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.
Portal Enhancement: 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.
Portal Enhancement: 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 coordinates every time a calculation is run. This step is completely […]
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. […]