Traditional Community Solar Project Selection Results for Program Year 2023-2024
On June 1, 2023, Traditional Community Solar (“TCS”) for the 2023-2024 Program Year opened, allocating 60 MW of capacity to Group A and 140 MW of capacity to Group B. Additional Traditional Community Solar capacity was added to each Group, after several TCS projects submitted to the 2022-23 Program Year were withdrawn, as indicated in […]
Reminder: 2023-2024 Traditional Community Solar Random Selection Event Tomorrow, September 20, 2023
On August 24, 2023, the Program released scores for Traditional Community Solar 2023-2024 project applications submitted on June 1, 2023, which will be used to determine which projects will be selected for a REC contract once random selection takes place. The scores and a full announcement regarding the scoring process were posted on the Program […]
Traditional Community Solar (TCS) Timeline for Projects submitted June 1, 2023 – 9/15 Update
Update from 8/25/2023 Announcement As announced on August 24, 2023, all projects submitted in the 2022-2023 Program Year have been processed and scored. The appeal period has concluded and the anticipated schedule of next steps for applications submitted for the 2023-2024 Program Year is the following:
Traditional Community Solar (TCS) Timeline for Projects Submitted June 1, 2023
All projects submitted in the 2022-2023 Program Year have been processed and scored. Projects in Group A that met the minimum waitlist score of 5 points have been added to the Group A 2023-2024 Waitlist, as there was no available capacity for these projects. Any Group A projects submitted in the 2023-2024 Program Year will […]
Find a Community Solar Project Report Update
The IPA and Program Administrator seek updated community solar project information from Approved Vendors to populate the Find a Community Solar Project report at the Illinois Shines Program website, with project-specific information known to AVs. This report is valuable to interested subscribers, the Agency, other developers, and other stakeholders. A template to like to edit […]
Traditional Community Solar Scores for Program Year 2023-2024
On June 1, 2023, Traditional Community Solar (“TCS”) capacity for the 2023-2024 Program Year opened. For the 2023-2024 Program Year, capacity available for the TCS category was60 MW for Group A and 140 MW for Group B. After capacity was allocated to the November1, 2022 submitted projects on the 2022-2023 waitlist, there was 0 MW […]
Traditional Community Solar (TCS) Timeline for Projects submitted June 1, 2023
The Agency anticipates 2023-2024 TCS project selection to follow the steps below, pending prompt responses from AVs. Projects submitted to Group A will be waitlisted and need to score a minimum 5 points to be added since there is 0 MW of capacity available. Projects submitted to Group B will be selected for capacity after […]
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 […]
Community Solar Interconnection Costs
This week, the Program Administrator sent out a survey to AVs with Part II verified community solar projects seeking updated data for interconnection costs for community solar projects. This data will be used as an input into the updated REC Pricing Model which will be released in draft form on August 15, 2023 as part […]
Traditional Community Solar Application Review and Scoring Process – 7/14 Update
Updated from 06/23/2023 Applications submitted after November 1, 2022 and up until May 31, 2023 are in the process of being reviewed in the order they were submitted and scores will be issued to AVs approximately two weeks after projects are reviewed. Projects in Group A that have scored a minimum of five points will […]