Program Documents
Long-Term Renewable Resources Procurement Plan
More information on Illinois Shines can be found in Chapters 6 and 7 of the Illinois Power Agency’s Long-Term Renewable Resources Procurement Plan. Past versions of the Plan can be found below. The Plan was reopened in December 2022, and the Modified Plan upon Reopening, as filed and published on May 9, 2023, is the operating version of the Plan.
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April 19, 2024
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August 2023
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December 2, 2022
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August 2022
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July 28, 2022
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March 21, 2022
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January 13, 2022
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August 16, 2021
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June 7, 2021
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April 20, 2020
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August 6, 2018
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Plan Redline
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Summer 2021
2022 Long-Term Renewable Resources Procurement Plan – Modified Plan upon Reopening
Redline between August 23, 2022 version and May 9, 2023 version
LONG-TERM PLAN UNDER DEVELOPMENT
2024 Long-Term Renewable Resources Procurement Plan – Initial ICC Filing (October 20, 2023)
Redline comparison of filed 2024 Long-Term Plan to draft 2024 Long-Term Plan
Draft 2024 Long-Term Renewable Resources Procurement Plan (August 15, 2023)
Redline comparison of draft Plan and 2022 Long-Term Plan
Stakeholder Comments Submitted by September 29, 2023
The redline below shows the changes from the initial to the revised Long-Term Renewable Resources Procurement Plan:
Comparison of Initial Plan and Revised Plan
*The chapters of the plan outlining the Adjustable Block Program are Chapter 6 and 7.
2021 Long-Term Renewable Resources Procurement Plan Workshops
Workshop #1 Documents (June 25, 2021)
Workshop #1 Request for Comments
Workshop #2 Documents (July 7, 2021)
Workshop #2 Request for Comments
Workshop #3 Documents (July 13, 2021)
Program Guidebook
Current Program Guidebook
2024-25 Program Year Program Guidebook (April 18, 2024)
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April 18, 2024
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February 27, 2024
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May 31, 2023
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April 17, 2023
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October 18, 2022
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August 29, 2022
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Dec 10, 2021
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June 4, 2021
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February 26, 2021
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November 18, 2020
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August 6, 2020
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May 31, 2019
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April 3, 2019
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January 31, 2019
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Dec 31, 2018
Draft Guidebook (March 13, 2024)
Redline comparison of draft and 2023-24 Guidebook
Program Guidebook Changes for Program Year 2023-24 – Rationale Document
Public Comments On March 13, 2024 Draft Program Guidebook
AES Clean Energy
Carbon Solutions
Climate Jobs Illinois
ComEd
IL-Solar, Inc.
Joint Solar Parties
Lightstar Renewables
LiveWire Electrical Systems
Sameer Doshi
Third Pillar Solar
US Solar
Program Guidebook (December 31, 2018)
Program Guidebook redline (December 31, 2018)
Program Guidebook — Drafts
Illinois Adjustable Block Program Draft Guidebook
View a recording of the stakeholder webinar held on November 30, 2018
Download a copy of the presentation given by the Program Administrator
Public Responses to Program Guidebook:
Consumer Protection Handbook
Current Consumer Protection Handbook
Consumer Protection Handbook for 2024-25 Program Year (Published April 18, 2024)
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June 3, 2024
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June 1, 2023
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April 20, 2023
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July 14, 2022
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Old Marketing Guidelines
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COVID Guidelines
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Other Resources
Cover Letter – Publication of CP Handbook and Contract Requirements (July 2022)
Illinois Shines Distributed Generation Marketing Guidelines (October 2021)
DG Redline between March 2021 and October 2021 Version
Illinois Shines Distributed Generation Marketing Guidelines (March 2021)
DG Redline between September 16, 2020 and March 30, 2021 version
Revised Community Solar Marketing Guidelines (released November 18, 2020)
Illinois Shines Distributed Generation Marketing Guidelines (September 2020)
Revised DG Marketing Guidelines (released September 16, 2020)
DG Redline between January 31, 2019 version and September 16, 2020 version
Community Solar Redline between January 31, 2019 version and November 18, 2020 Version
Request for Comments Announcement (April 3, 2020)
Original Distributed Generation Marketing Guidelines (released January 31, 2019)
Draft Distributed Generation Marketing Guidelines (released for comment April 3, 2020)
Redline between original and draft Distributed Generation Marketing Guidelines
Original Community Solar Marketing Guidelines (released January 31, 2019)
Draft Community Solar Marketing Guidelines (released for comment April 3, 2020)
Redline between original and draft Community Solar Marketing Guidelines
REC Contracts
2024 15-Year REC Delivery Contract (Updates April 22, 2024)
2024 20-Year REC Delivery Contract (Updated April 22, 2024)
2022 15-Year REC Delivery Contract (Updated August 31, 2022)
2022 20-Year REC Delivery Contract (Updated August 31, 2022)
2021 15-Year REC Delivery Contract (Updated March 16, 2022)
2021 20-Year REC Delivery Contract (Updated March 16, 2022)
2019 REC Delivery Contract (Updated January 28, 2019)
2019 Reasons for Removal
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April 22, 2024
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2022 Contracts
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2021 Contracts
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November 2021 Draft REC Contracts
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October 2021 Draft REC Contracts
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2021 Revised REC Contract
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2019 REC Delivery Contract
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Second Draft – Refreshed REC Contract
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First Draft – Refreshed REC Contract
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Refreshed REC Contract
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Second Draft REC Contract
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First Draft REC Contract
Draft Program Year 2024-25 REC Delivery Contracts
Draft 15-Year REC Delivery Contract (March 22, 2024)
[REDLINE] Draft ABP 15-Year REC Delivery Contract (March 22, 2024 vs. 2022 Contract)
Draft 20-Year REC Delivery Contract (March 22, 2024)
[REDLINE] Draft 20 Year REC Delivery Contract (March 22, 2024 vs. 2022 Contract)
[REDLINE] 15-Year REC Delivery Contract (April 22, 2024 vs 2022 Contract)
[REDLINE] 20-Year REC Delivery Contract (April 22, 2024 vs 2022 Contract)
Public Comments on March 22, 2024 draft 2024 REC Contracts
AES Clean Energy
Climate Jobs Illinois
Joint Solar Parties
Sameer Doshi
US Solar
- ABP 15-Year REC Delivery Contract (Updated August 31, 2022)
- ABP 20-Year REC Delivery Contract (Updated August 31, 2022)
- Redline ABP REC Contract 1, August 31, 2022 vs ABP REC Contract 1, August 3, 2022
- Redline ABP REC Contract 2, August 31, 2022 vs ABP REC Contract 2, August 3, 2022
- Redline ABP REC Contract 2, August 31, 2022 vs ABP REC Contract 1, August 31, 2022
- ABP 20-Year REC Delivery Contract (Updated August 3, 2022 Draft)
- Redline ABP REC Contract 1, August 3, 2022 vs ABP REC Contract 1, March 16, 2022
- Redline ABP REC Contract 2, August 3, 2022 vs ABP REC Contract 1, August 3, 2022
- Redline ABP REC Contract 2, August 3, 2022 vs ABP REC Contract 2, March 16, 2022
- ABP DRAFT REC Contracts Request for Feedback August 3, 2022
- 2021 15-Year REC Delivery Contract (Updated March 16, 2022)
- 2021 20-Year REC Delivery Contract (Updated March 16, 2022)
- Redline between February 15, 2022 15-Year REC Delivery Contract and March 6, 2022 15-Year REC Delivery Contract
- Redline between February 15, 2022 20-Year REC Delivery Contract and March 6, 2022 20-Year REC Delivery Contract
- 2021 15-Year REC Delivery Contract (Updated February 15, 2022)
- 2021 20-Year REC Delivery Contract (Updated February 15, 2022)
- Redline between December 13, 2021 15-Year REC Delivery Contract and February 15, 2022 15-Year REC Delivery Contract
- Redline between December 13, 2021 20-Year REC Delivery Contract and February 15, 2022 20-Year REC Delivery Contract
- Redline between 2021 15-Year REC Delivery Contract and REC Base Agreement
- Redline between 2021 15-Year REC Delivery Contract Final and 2021 15-Year REC Delivery Contract Second Draft
- Redline between 2021 15-Year REC Delivery Contract and 2021 20-Year REC Delivery Contract
- Acknowledgement of Assignment Forms
- Stakeholder Workshop Announcement- REC Contract Amendments
- Request for Stakeholder Comments – Draft Payment Deferral Contract Amendments (Withdrawn)
- Comments to the Draft Payment Deferral Contract Amendments
- Notice and Update on status of REC Contract Amendments Due to the Enactment of Public Act 102-0662
- Request for Comments on Draft REC Contract
- Draft REC Contract
- Redline (reflects differences between the first draft of the Refreshed REC Contract posted on 24 July 2020 and the Second Draft of the Refreshed REC Contract posted on 4 September 2020)
- Third Stakeholder Webinar
- Third Presentation from the REC Contract Webinar Held on September 11, 2020
- Comments to the Second Draft – Refreshed REC Contract
- Request for Comments on First Draft Refreshed REC Contract
- First Draft Refreshed REC Contract
- Redline (reflects differences between the Final REC Contract posted on 28 January 2019 and the First Draft of the Refreshed REC Contract posted on 24 July 2020
- Second Stakeholder Webinar
- Presentation from the REC Contract webinar held on August 7, 2020
- Comments to the First Draft – Refreshed REC Contract
REC Prices
Disclosure Forms
CS Disclosure Form Template (Live Development Version – September 29, 2023)
DG Lease Disclosure Form Template (Live Development Version – September 29, 2023)
DG PPA Disclosure Form Template (Live Development Version – September 29, 2023)
DG Purchase Disclosure Form Template (Live Development Version – September 29, 2023)
Illinois Shines Disclosure Form – System Purchase
Illinois Shines Disclosure Form – Lease
Illinois Shines Disclosure Form – PPA
Illinois Shines Disclosure Form – Systems Above 25 kW
Customer Disclosure Form E-mail Address Waiver
Community Solar Disclosure Form Sample
Community Solar Disclosure Form Sample – Spanish
Revised Community Solar Disclosure Form Training Document
Request for Comments Announcement (April 3, 2020)
Community Solar Disclosure Form Questions (3 April 2020) Updated Due date
Community Solar Disclosure Form (released January 31, 2019)
Community Solar Disclosure Form Webinar
Community Solar Disclosure Form Webinar Presentation from July 15, 2019
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Distributed Generation Draft Documents
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Community Solar Draft Documents
Draft Brochure for the Adjustable Block Program
Draft Guidelines for Marketing Material and Marketing Behavior
Draft PV Lease Disclosure Form
Draft PV System Purchase Disclosure Form
Draft PV Power Purchase Agreement Disclosure Form
Review Stakeholder Comments to the Adjustable Block Program marketing guidelines & materials
This document provides input rates that are utilized within the Program portal for calculations. For Distributed Generation, these include the Current Average Retail Rate (for ComEd/Ameren/MidAmerican) used to calculate the Savings Estimates for DG Disclosure Forms, and for rural electric co-ops or municipal utilities, an average statewide retail rate is used and updated annually. For Community Solar, a Price to Compare is provided for the utilities. Click here to access the current Portal Input Rates document.
Informational Brochures
Public Schools Program Category Brochure – This brochure provides more information on the Public Schools category in Illinois Shines.
Public Schools Project Guide – This guide outlines next steps for schools looking to go solar.
Contract Requirements
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Historical & Inactive Documents
Distributed Generation Contract Requirements (2023-24)
Distributed Generation Contract Requirements — January 23, 2019
Review Stakeholder Comments — January 7, 2019
Distributed Generation Contract Requirements — July 14, 2022
Community Solar Contract Requirements – July 14, 2022
Distributed Generation redline comparison between August 28, 2022 and June 1, 2023 versions
Community Solar redline comparison between August 28, 2022 and June 1, 2023 versions
Consumer Protection
Prevailing Wage Hub
Prevailing wage is a minimum compensation level set by the Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL) by county for construction activities related to public works. Section 1-75(c)(1)(Q) of the IPA Act (20 ILCS 3855) as modified by Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (Public Act 102-0662) now requires that individuals engaged in the construction of applicable projects submitted to Illinois Shines are paid the relevant prevailing wage. Additionally, Illinois Public Act 102-0673 (effective as of November 30, 2021) clarifies that such projects are “public works” subject to the Prevailing Wage Act—which includes notice requirements and related provisions as well. The Prevailing Wage Act defines ‘construction’ to include maintenance, repair, assembly, or disassembly work performed on equipment.
Other Resources
Assignments are governed by Section 9.2 of the 2019 REC Delivery Contract and Section 13.1 of the 2021, 2022 and 2024 REC Delivery Contracts. Download one of the two versions of the Acknowledgement of Assignment form corresponding to the REC Delivery Contract to assign.
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2019 REC Contract
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2021 REC Contract
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2022 & 2024 REC Contracts
Acknowledgement of Assignment Form
The Acknowledgement without consent form is used if the Assignee already is a valid Approved Vendor with an existing fully executed REC Contract.
Acknowledgement of Assignment and Consent Form
The Acknowledgement of Assignment and Consent Form is used if the Assignee is not currently a counterparty to a REC contract with the Buyer under the Illinois Shines program.
Acknowledgement of Assignment Form
The Acknowledgement without consent form is used if the Assignee already is a valid Approved Vendor with an existing fully executed REC Contract.
Acknowledgement of Assignment and Consent Form
The Acknowledgement of Assignment and Consent Form is used if the Assignee is not currently a counterparty to a REC contract with the Buyer under the Illinois Shines program.
Acknowledgement of Assignment Form
The Acknowledgement without consent form is used if the Assignee already is a valid Approved Vendor with an existing fully executed REC Contract.
Acknowledgement of Assignment and Consent Form
The Acknowledgement of Assignment and Consent Form is used if the Assignee is not currently a counterparty to a REC contract with the Buyer under the Illinois Shines program.
This table contains information to help Approved Vendors determine when net metering documentation such as a Net Meter Approval Letter or an Unavailability of Net Metering Customer Acknowledgement Form. This is the same table application processors consult during application review. Consulting this table and checking to ensure the appropriate documentation is uploaded with each project application will help avoid a Need Info delay.
Utility Net Metering Reference Table – Updated March 8, 2024
Adjustable Block Program Lottery Event Details – March 27, 2019
The Illinois Power Agency and the Program Administrator announce details for the Adjustable Block Program lottery held on April 10, 2019. (2024 notation: See the below section, “Lottery Results, Final Opening Lottery Procedure, Draft Lottery Procedure, and Archived Lottery Timelines” for associated details, documents, and results).
As previously announced, lotteries will be held for the following Groups/categories: Group A – Large Distributed Generation (“DG”), Group A – Community Solar, and Group B – Community Solar.
Event Details
Location | Date and Time |
James R. Thompson Center Auditorium 100 W Randolph St, Lower Level Chicago, IL 60601 |
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 1:00 PM CDT – 2:00 PM CDT |
If you cannot attend in person, a toll-free call-in number is available to listen to the proceedings:
888-494-4032; Access Code: 9897235124
Order/Explanation of the Lottery Event
The Lottery Event will start with a brief overview of the lottery process and then lotteries will be conducted in the following order:
- Group A – Large DG
- Group A – Community Solar
- Projects that have committed to at least 50% small subscribers (50% of the combined capacity of Blocks 1 and 2)
- All remaining unselected projects (50% of the combined capacity of Blocks 1 and 2
- Group B – Community Solar
- Projects that have committed to at least 50% small subscribers (50% of the combined capacity of Blocks 1 and 2)
- All remaining unselected projects (50% of the combined capacity of Blocks 1 and 2)
The selection of projects for the lottery will be conducted using the algorithm explained in further detail below. For each lottery, once the algorithm has been run, the results will be displayed with all projects listed by ordinal rank, including indications of projects selected (including specific pricing) and projects placed on the waitlist. A hard copy of the results will be printed, signed, and retained by the IPA (to back up the electronic records).
All Approved Vendors with projects in the lottery will be informed immediately after the lottery event by e-mail of the ordinal rank and selected, or not-selected, status of their project(s). This information will also be displayed on their online dashboard. A public copy of the results will also be posted on the illinoisshines.com website immediately after the lottery event.
For the results of the lottery that will be posted to the program website, each project participating in the lottery will be listed by the project name provided by the Approved Vendor, selection status, the project size, the physical address, the name of the Approved Vendor, any small subscriber commitment status (community solar only), any voluntarily provided utility interconnection queue number, and the random ordinal number assigned to the project.
Algorithm/Project Selection
The algorithm used for the selection of projects is written the programming language PHP and the database language MySQL. The algorithm uses the SQL rand() function seeded by the microsecond time the lottery button was pushed to order the results.
Projects will be selected based upon their ordinal rank. Projects selected up to the combined capacity of Blocks 1 and 2 for the Group/category will receive Block 1 pricing. Projects selected up to the capacity of Block 3 will receive Block 3 pricing. Any projects selected through the allocation of discretionary capacity will receive Block 4 pricing. Additional information on the allocation of discretionary capacity will be announced shortly.
As noted above, for community solar, the lottery is run in two phases, once for projects that have committed to 50% small subscribers for half the capacity available for that Group, and then again for all non-selected projects from the first phase and the remaining projects that did not make a small subscriber commitment.
Contracts for selected projects are subject to approval by the Illinois Commerce Commission.
Applications received after February 13
The project application portal will remain open for application submittals. However, for the Group/category combinations for which a lottery is being held, any applications submitted after the 12:00 noon, February 13, 2019 deadline for the lottery will be chronologically placed on the waiting list behind projects submitted to, but not selected in, the lottery. Due to the large number of projects submitted to those Group/category combinations, the waitlist in these Group/category combinations may be significantly long. Please keep this in mind in submitting future applications to these Group/category combinations. Group A and Group B – Small DG both remain open in Block 1, and Group B – Large DG remains open in Block 2 through April 5, 2019 (subject to available capacity).
Lottery Results, Final Opening Lottery Procedure, Draft Lottery Procedure, and Archived Lottery Timelines (Published in conjunction with the April 2019 Lottery)
LOTTERY RESULTS
- See linked documents below in April 10, 2019 Lottery Results Posted section
FINAL OPENING LOTTERY PROCEDURE
- Adjustable Block Program Opening Lottery Procedure
- Adjustable Block Program Lottery Procedure Guidance Document
- Adjustable Block Program Lottery Process Flowchart
*The procedures described in the November 28, 2018 Lottery Procedure document have been updated with some minor clerical corrections and a clarification of the application of the developer cap, as well as an option for projects that receive a Block 3 REC contract as a result of a Block 1 lottery to decline the contract. The revised language is in the Program Guidebook.
DRAFT LOTTERY PROCEDURE
- Draft Illinois Adjustable Block Program lottery procedure document
- View the stakeholder webinar or download a copy of the presentation or the draft Illinois Adjustable Block Program lottery procedure held on September 17, 2018.
- Review stakeholder comments to the draft lottery procedure that were due September 28, 2018, posted below.
- Adjustable Block Program draft lottery procedure Request for Follow-Up Comments document
- Review follow-up stakeholder comments (October 17, 2018), posted below.
Archived Lottery Timelines (Updated Timeline)
Comments to the Draft Procedures for the Block 1 Lottery (September 28, 2018)
- Borrego Solar Systems, Inc
- Carbon Solutions Group
- Central Road Energy LLC
- Chapman Energy Strategies
- City of Urbana, IL
- Coalition for Community Solar Access (CCSA)
- Community Power Group
- Cook County Department of Environment and Sustainability
- County of Kendall, Illinois
- Cypress Creek
- ELPC and Vote Solar
- EnSync Energy Systems
- Environmental Defense Fund
- ForeFront Power
- Fox Metro Water Reclamation District, Board of Trustees and District Manager
- Fox Metro Water Reclamation District, Secretary
- Geronimo Energy
- IGS Solar
- Illinois Association of School Administrators
- Illinois IBEW Renewable Energy Fund
- IL-Solar Inc
- Innovative Power Systems (IPS)
- Joint Solar Parties
- Nexamp
- OneEnergy Development, LLC
- Pivot Energy, f.k.a Microgrid Energy
- Progressive Energy Group
- SGC Power
- Sierra Club Illinois
- Simpleray
- Summit Ridge Energy
- SunVest New Energy LLC
- Trajectory Energy Partners
- United States Solar Corporation
Follow-Up Comments to the Draft Procedures for the Block 1 Lottery (October 17, 2018)
- Borrego Solar
- Carbon Solutions Group
- Central Road Energy
- Clearway Energy Group
- Coalition for Community Solar Access
- Community Energy Solar
- Community Power Group
- Cypress Creek Comments
- ELPC and Vote Solar
- Environmental Defense Fund
- ForeFront Power
- Geronimo Energy
- GreenKey Solar
- IGS
- IPS Solar
- Joint Solar Parties
- Nexamp
- Novel Energy Solutions
- OneEnergy Development
- Ruyle Mechanical Services, Inc.
- Shine Development Partners
- SolAmerica Energy
- Solar Micronics
- SolarStone
- SunVest
- Summit Ridge
- Trajectory Energy Partners
- United States Solar Corporation
April 10, 2019 Lottery Results Posted
The lottery for Group A – Large Distributed Generation (“DG”), Group A – Community Solar, and Group B – Community Solar projects was held on April 10, 2019.
The lottery for Group A – Large Distributed Generation (“DG”), Group A – Community Solar, and Group B – Community Solar projects was held on April 10, 2019. The results of the lottery can viewed by clicking the links below:
Group A – Large Distributed Generation (“DG”) Results PDF
Group A – Large Distributed Generation (“DG”) Results Excel Download
Group A – Corrected Community Solar Results PDF
Group A – Corrected Community Solar Results Excel Download
Group A – Original Community Solar Results PDF
Group A – Original Community Solar Results Excel Download
Group B – Community Solar Results PDF
Group B – Community Solar Results Excel Download
The lottery was conducted using an algorithm that is explained in detail in the “Adjustable Block Program Lottery Event Details” section above. The reports above list all projects submitted to the lottery by ordinal rank with an indication of whether or not the project was selected or placed on the waitlist. If a project was selected the report will indicate which Block the project was accepted into. Each project is listed by the project name provided by the Approved Vendor, the project size, the physical address, the name of the Approved Vendor, any small subscriber commitment status (community solar only), and any voluntarily provided utility interconnection queue number. A copy of the presentation given at the lottery can be found here.
On April 12, 2019, the IPA issued Clarification Regarding Application of the Developer Cap in the lottery.