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
QUARTER 1 2025 (January, February, March)

DG API – AV access to Designee Disclosure Forms 

  • AVs can submit, view data, download form, and upload signature of Disclosure Forms on Designees’ behalf through DG API. 

Project & Disclosure Form Searchability and Reports (continued) 

  • AVs can download reports of Disclosure Forms. Additional fields have been added to project application dashboard to improve usability. 
QUARTER 2 2025 (April, May, June) 

REC Contract Amendment 
Changes to REC Contracts, Schedule A and B documents, and invoicing due to 2025 REC Contract Amendment. 

  • Track which REC Contracts have a signed amendment. 
  • Generate new Schedule As and Bs with amendment terms. 

Program Year Pause 
The Program Year pause will start Tuesday, May 27 at 8:00 p.m. CPT and go through Monday, June 2 at 8:00 a.m. CPT. This pause will limit functionality in the Portal necessary to finalize block capacity allocation in preparation for the 2025-26 Program Year start. The Program Administrator has implemented a change to this year’s pause that will allow AVs to have full ability for Disclosure Form creation, submission, and signature features. 

Remove AV & Designee Association 
Enables the Program Administrator to remove associations between AVs and Designees in the Program Portal when working relationship has terminated. 

QUARTER 3 2025 (July, August, September) 

Subscriber Management 
Enable Community Solar Subscriber management. This will allow AVs and Designees to view, create, edit, and terminate subscription records within the Portal. 

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

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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