Portal Updates

Portal Development Roadmap

The Portal Development Roadmap is designed to preview upcoming, planned development for the Illinois Shines portal. Updates on the following planned activities will be provided in weekly Program announcements, and detailed below in the Portal Updates Blog in conjunction with software releases.

 

Roadmap Update: December 19, 2026
QUARTER 4 2025 (October, November, December) 

Subscriber Management Foundations 
Foundational development for Community Solar Subscriber Management capability. When the full feature is complete, Approved Vendors (“AVs”) and Designees will be able to view, create, edit, and terminate subscription records within the Portal.  

Improved AV and Designee Company and User Structure 
Continued improvements to AV and Designee management. The Portal now: 

  • Allows companies to have multiple users per AV and Designee ID 
  • Allows users to manage Disclosure Forms for multiple Designee IDs 
  • Collects associated Designee ID on Disclosure Forms via portal, CSV, and API 
QUARTER 1 2026 (January, February, March) 

Subscriber Management  
Final development for the Subscriber Management Feature and improvements to usability. Scope to be informed by feedback from AVs and Designees. 

Batch Fee Report 
Show batch fee calculations in real-time when AVs generate a batch to increase application fee transparency. AVs will also be able to download a report with itemized application calculations and fees for selected batches. 

QUARTER 2 2026 (April, May, June) 

Historical CS Subscriptions 
Allow AVs and Designees to add inactive community solar subscriptions to the Portal so that full historical data can be used to calculate daily averages and complete annual reporting. 

Address Validation 
Use of address validation tool to standardize installation addresses, to identify expansions, co-locations, and duplicate applications before contracting. 

Program Year 2026-27 Setup + New Long Term Plan Changes 
Changes to the Portal to support the new 2026-27 Program Year and 2026 Long-Term Plan updates. 

Portal Updates Blog

The Program Administrator will use this space to provide ongoing portal updates on releases of features and functions (newly-available and planned); issue and bug reports, investigations, and resolutions; updates on data availability and reports; changes to portal materials/documents or appearance; new technical documentation and support; and more.

March 10, 2025 

Enhancements: 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

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March 5, 2025 

Enhancements: API: DG Purchase validation rule “transfer_requirements” (If you move) field should always be required.   API Only: API validation rules for calls to create Disclosure Forms for DG Projects have

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February 19, 2025 

Bug Fixes:   E-Sign Email for DG Disclosure Forms are not in Spanish. Disclosure Form Signature Requests for DG Disclosure Forms in Spanish were contacting the signer with an email requesting

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February 5, 2025

Market Facing Bugfixes:  Cannot submit app when interconnecting Utility Changed Between Part 1 and 2 (from ComEd). Issue: When a Part I project application was originally submitted with the Interconnecting Utility

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January 22, 2024 

Bug Fix: Net Metering: DG Disclosure Form – “What is the customer’s expected annual electricity usage in kWh?” question seems to blank out/not be saving when users resume an unsubmitted

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