Notice to Illinois Residents on the Availability of Illinois Shines Incentives for Solar Projects in Central and Southern Illinois
Each Program Year, Illinois Shines is able to provide incentives for a capped amount of solar project capacity for specific project categories. The capacity for Large Distributed Generation (on-site) solar projects—those over 25 kW AC—in Group A has been fully depleted for the Program Year that runs from June 2023 through May 2024. Group A […]
DG DF API Working Group – Call for Participation and Feedback
The Agency and Program Administrator seek engagement from stakeholders regarding usage, functionality, and feedback on the development of a Distributed Generation Disclosure Form API (Application Program Interface) to be incorporated into the Program portal; a Community Solar DF API was recently added to the Program portal. AVs and Designees interested to participate in a Working […]
Notice on Changes to Block Capacity Dashboard
This week, in the course of re-batching a subset of Program Year 2022-23 Small and Large DG and TCS projects, a re-batching date incorrectly placed these projects in the 2023-24 Program year and therefore subtracted capacity against 2023-2024 block capacity allocations. As a result, users temporarily observed incorrect data for block capacity in Groups A […]
Group A Small Distributed Generation Soft Close Period Concludes; Waitlist in Effect
As previously communicated, on May 9, 2023, the annual block of capacity for the Group A Small Distributed Generation block has been filled. Section B of the Program Guidebook provides for a soft close period which allows the block to remain open for seven calendar days or when the next project application submitted to the […]
Group A Small DG in Soft Close, Preparing for the New Program Year, Annual Report Reminder
The IPA announces new information related to Program News, Ongoing Operations Updates, Application Processing Updates, Ongoing Program Portal Updates, and other Requirements and Reminders. The full announcement is available here. Topics covered include the following: Program News Group A Small DG Block Reaches Capacity, Soft Close Period Initiated Traditional Community Solar Score Audit and Appeal […]
Group A Small Distributed Generation Block Reaches Capacity, Soft Close Period Initiated
The annual block of capacity for the Group A Small Distributed Generation block has been filled. Section B of the Program Guidebook provides for a soft close period which allows the block to remain open for seven calendar days or when the next project application submitted to the block would exceed capacity by 10 megawatts. The […]
ABP Waitlisted Small DG and Large DG Projects – REC Pricing and Prevailing Wage Notice Sent November 23, 2021
On Tuesday, November 23, 2021, the Program Administrator sent notice via email to all Approved Vendors with projects on the Small DG and Large DG waitlists regarding updated REC pricing and prevailing wage requirements that stem from the passage of the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (Public Act 102-0662). This notice included a deadline of […]
Group A and Group B Small DG waitlists posted
The Program Administrator has posted spreadsheets of the waitlists for the Group A Small DG and Group B Small DG categories on the Small DG dashboard page. These files will be refreshed daily. Please refer to the announcements on the Program website for more details on the closure of Group A Small DG Block 3 […]
Group B Small DG Block 3 closed
On December 14, 2020 an application was submitted that exceeded the available capacity in Group B Small DG Block 3. This application and all other applications for this Group/category submitted in a paid batch on or prior to 11:59 PM Central Prevailing Time on that date were allocated to Block 3 up to a cap […]
Group A Small DG Block 3 closed
On December 3, 2020 an application was submitted that exceeded the available capacity in Group A Small DG Block 3. This application and all other applications for this Group/category submitted in a paid batch on or prior to 11:59 PM Central Prevailing Time on that date were allocated to Block 3 up to the cap […]