On December 18, the Program detailed updates to Distributed Generation Disclosure Forms, which will go live the evening of Tuesday, January 7, 2025 to support upcoming Net Metering changes in Illinois. Disclosure Forms are an important consumer education tool that customers can use to understand key project information and to compare offers.
The announcement included examples of the updated forms, and additional details on calculations for the value of electricity generated by the solar project. Many of the new fields already appear in the Portal and must be completed in order to generate a Disclosure Form, but the information does not currently appear on the PDFs. Once the updated Disclosure Forms go live, the information from these new fields will also appear on the PDFs that are generated for and provided to customers. The updates relate to information on batteries, utility rebates, calculations for the value of electricity, and net metering in Mt. Carmel, municipal utilities, and rural electric co-operatives. CSV users will be required to utilize a new CSV template and API users should plan updates to their API by January 7, 2025. Please contact [email protected] for API questions. This information is specifically about Disclosure Forms for the Illinois Shines program. Updates related to new Disclosure Forms for the Illinois Solar for All program will be released via that program’s communication channels.
