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
QUARTER 4 2024 (October, November, December)

Disclosure Form changes from net metering configuration 

  • Changes in Disclosure Forms to reflect shift in net metering for DG customers in Illinois starting January 1, 2025. Portal changes will be live on January 7, 2025: 
    • Modified text in PDFs generated for DG Lease, Purchase, and PPA forms 
    • Updated fields and savings calculations related to Value of Electricity and Savings Estimates and Net Metering & Utility Rebates sections in portal, CSV, and API

Project Removals and Non-Executions 

  • Enable Program Administrator to update application status to “Removed” and “Not Executed”. Correct application status and assigned batch for all removed and not executed applications. 
QUARTER 1 2025 (January, February, March)

Remove AV & Designee Association

  • Enable Program Admins to remove associations between AVs and Designees in the Program Portal when working relationship has terminated.

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 report of Disclosure Forms. Additional fields added to project application dashboard to improve usability.
QUARTER 2 2025 (April, May, June) 

Subscriber Management 

  • Enable community solar subscriber management. Allow AVs and Designees to view, create, edit, and terminate subscription records within the portal. 

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

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

New Program Year Pause 

  • Ability to limit portal functionality necessary to finalize block capacity allocation at Program Year end, while still allowing full ability for Disclosure Form creation, submission, and signature features. 

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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