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.

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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January 7, 2025 

Enhancement: DG Disclosure Forms revised to reflect new changes to Net Metering policies effective for 2025. For more information see the Updated Distributed Generation Disclosure Forms announcement. 

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December 11, 2024 

Enhancement:    Cannot submit Part II application when the question “Does your system have a battery backup?” answer is ‘Yes’ for Part I and ‘No’ for Part II  Previously, when

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November 13, 2024 

 Enhancements:   As a Vendor: Forgot Password returns generic error if user cancels password change. This enhancement removes an error message when the user selects “Forgot Password”, receives an email with

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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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