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: May 22, 2025
QUARTER 1 2025 (January, February, March)

Project & Disclosure Form Searchability and Reports
Ability for AVs to download reports of Disclosure Forms. Additional fields 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. Ability to:

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

Program Year Pause
Portal functionality will be limited for the Program Year pause, which begins Tuesday, May 27 at 8:00 p.m. CPT and runs through Monday, June 2 at 8:00 a.m. CPT. This pause will allow the Program Administrator 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 retain full access to 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.

DG API – AV access to Designee Disclosure Forms
Ability for AVs to submit, view data, download form, and upload signature of Disclosure Forms on Designees’ behalf through DG API.

QUARTER 3 2025 (July, August, September) 

AV & Designee Management
Allow AVs and Designees to view their AV and Designee relationships. This feature will enable a future feature where AVs can manage their own Designee relationships.

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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