The annual block of capacity for the Group B Equity Eligible Contractor (“EEC”) Community Solar 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 (“MW”).
For Program Year 2024-25, 84.00 MW of capacity was allocated for Group B EEC Community Solar. Following the application of available capacity for projects waitlisted in this category and group, the remaining capacity for Group B EEC Community Solar was 56.84 MW for this Program Year. The block reached capacity on Friday, November 22, 2024 when a batch submittal reached the 84.00 MW allotted for this group/category for the 2024-25 Program Year. The soft close period will begin today, November 25, 2024, and extend until December 2, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. CPT or until 10 additional megawatts of capacity are batched and submitted to the Program. Currently, 3.85 MW have been batched and submitted to the Group B EEC Community Solar block including projects that comprised the waitlist.
The Program Administrator will announce if the 10 MW of soft close capacity is reached prior to December 2, 2024. Any applications batched and submitted to the Program under Group B EEC Community Solar group/category after the soft close capacity is reached OR after December 2, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. CPT will be placed on a waitlist.
Once the soft close period has concluded, the Program Administrator will announce that the block is closed and post a waitlist publicly on the Program website. All subsequently submitted applications will be placed on a waitlist as the block will be considered closed. At this time, new capacity for this Group/category is planned for the 2025-26 Program Year and is expected to be available on June 2, 2025.
Thank you,
Illinois Shines Program
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