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: April 2, 2025 | |
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QUARTER 1 2025 (January, February, March) | DG API – AV access to Designee Disclosure Forms
Project & Disclosure Form Searchability and Reports (continued)
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QUARTER 2 2025 (April, May, June) | REC Contract Amendment
Program Year Pause Remove AV & Designee Association |
QUARTER 3 2025 (July, August, September) | Subscriber Management Address Validation |
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
Upcoming Portal Maintenance and Releases
Please note that an additional maintenance window to implement changes, making the coordinates fields required, in the Portal has been scheduled for Monday, March 10, 2025, from 8:00 p.m. to
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
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
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
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