Program Help Guides and Application Tips

Certified Transcript of Payroll (CTP) should notes the Illinois Power Agency as the “Public Body”. Contact information can be found on the Contact Us page of the Agency website. For more tips on CTP compliance, please visit the Prevailing Wage Hub page on the Program website.

Whenever possible, values for project details should be exact and consistent across the Program Portal, documentation, and applicable registries. For portal fields that do not allow for decimals, AVs should round to the nearest available value.  Rounding down – Digits 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 round down to the nearest applicable

Certified Transcripts of Payroll (CTPs) are required at the Part II application to demonstrate that Prevailing Wage was paid appropriately.

To avoid common errors, inconsistencies, or omissions in Part I and Part II for Distributed Generation project applications, the Program provides a DG Project Application Checklist to assist stakeholders. Please see the current Program Guidebook for full application requirements. Stakeholders needing assistance or who have questions are encouraged to visit

During the Need Info request resolution process, an AV may receive an email notification stating “We confirm the current Need Info request(s) have been cured. We will let you know if we need anything further.” This is confirmation that current requests have been cured. However, quality assurance checks may uncover

Part I Section 6 of the project application includes a text field for “Final Interconnection Approval Date (Actual or Estimated).” If the system will be interconnected in the future, please estimate the date of interconnection. If the system has already been built and interconnected, please use the interconnection date provided