Per the 2024 Long-Term Plan Re-Opening, capacity for the 2025-26 Program Year will expand by 100% except for the EEC Category, which will be expanded by 64 MW for Group A and 169 MW for Group B. In order to expand the capacity, the Program will pause for one business day, from October 30, 2025, at 8:00 a.m. CPT through October 31, 2025, at 8:00 a.m. CPT, to undertake data and reporting updates, including updates to the Program website, Portal, and allocation of capacity to waitlisted applications.
During the Program pause:
- All Disclosure Form functionality, including the ability to create and submit Disclosure Forms and obtain signatures, will be available.
- Access to project applications and batches will be unavailable in the Illinois Shines Portal.
- The ability for Approved Vendors to create, revise, submit, and batch project applications will be paused within the Portal.
- Project data may be exported from the Application Dashboard prior to the pause.
For more information on the Program pause, please refer to this announcement.
Thank you!
Illinois Shines Program
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