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: January 16, 2025 | |
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QUARTER 4 2024 (October, November, December) | Disclosure Form changes from net metering configuration
Project Removals and Non-Executions
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QUARTER 1 2025 (January, February, March) | Remove AV & Designee Association
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) | Subscriber Management
REC Contract Addendum
New Program Year Pause
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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.
October 30, 2024
Changed text on Part I application submission popup The confirmation message displayed when submitting a Part I application has been revised to include greater clarity on next steps, highlighting that
October 16, 2024
Enhancement: Update “meter” to “solar production meter”.Part II application fields to collect information on the project’s Solar Production Meter were renamed for more clarity: It is hoped that the increased
October 2, 2024
Enhancement: Add additional supported file types to project application documents. Project applications will now accept attachments with .png, .heic, and .jpeg files. This is in addition to the existing supported file
September 4, 2024
Bug Fixes: Net Metering Phase 1: Net Metering Missing on Spanish Translated PPA and Lease Form Previously, the Value of Electricity and Savings Estimates section was missing from Spanish Lease
August 6
Enhancements: Ability to Export report of Illinois Shines projects for Approved Vendors This enhancement allows Approved Vendors to export their project data to a CSV file from the project application
July 25
Bugfix: Backfill PV Watts API version for apps calculated before v8 A new field has been added to track the version of the PV Watts API that was used