On October 31, 2025, capacity for the 2025-26 Program Year was re-allocated following re-opening. Capacity was initially allocated to projects on the 2025-26 Program Year waitlists, leaving 0 MW of capacity available for Group A and 6.17 MW available for Group B for newly submitted applications. The expanded 20% developer cap was applied during this time. Projects selected from the waitlists will be submitted to the next eligible ICC meeting for approval for REC contracts. The first eligible ICC meeting for this project selection is December 4, 2025.
At 11:59 pm CPT, October 31, 2025, the first day of application submissions for Program Year 2025-26 re-opening ended, and a total of 39.97 MW of capacity was submitted: 9.95 MW submitted to Group A and 30.02 MW submitted to Group B.
As detailed above, the block capacity allocation has been exceeded for both Traditional Community Solar Groups A and B, as per Section 1.E. of the Program Guidebook, a “First Day” Scoring process has been triggered, as specified in the current Program Guidebook (published May 5, 2025), including the following next steps:
Application Review Period – Initial review by Program Administrator: Approximately 4 weeks
Application Cure Period – AVs cure deficiencies identified by Program Administrator: Approximately 2 weeks
Application Scoring Period – Program Administrator begins scoring process for all relevant applications (those submitted without deficiencies and those that successfully cure deficiencies during the 2-week cure period): Approximately 3 weeks
Scoring Cure Period – AVs review initial scores and dispute and resolve any discrepancies: Approximately 2 weeks
Final scores and project selection will be posted after the Scoring Cure Period. A minimum score of 5 points must be achieved to be placed on a waitlist. Please note that this schedule is tentative and will be dependent on both the quality and quantity of applications received. As a reminder, payment for submitted batches must be made within 10 days of batch submittal.
Following the full application review and scoring process, including cure periods, and the resolution of scoring appeals, if any, Traditional Community Solar scores will be posted. At that time, the Agency will announce if a random selection process is necessary to break ties between projects that received the same scores and where those scores would impact project selection, or waitlist placement. Please see last week’s announcement for further details on the waitlist and application process.