The Illinois Solar for All (ILSFA) and Illinois Shines programs are updating their standard Disclosure Forms for 2025. These updates reflect the change in net meter crediting for ComEd, Ameren, and MidAmerican customers. For ILSFA, these changes will apply to the Illinois Solar for All: Residential Solar (Small), the Residential Solar (Large), and the Non-Profit and Public Facilities Disclosure Forms. The Community Solar Disclosure Forms will not be updated.
The updated Disclosure Forms will be released on Tuesday, January 7, 2025. The updates to the Disclosure Forms include the following:
- New fields about whether the solar project includes a battery and, if so, the size of the battery (all Residential Solar and Non-Profit and Public Facilities Disclosure Forms)
- New fields related to utility rebates and calculation of the rebate amounts (ComEd and Ameren Disclosure Forms only)
- Approved Vendors/Designees will be required to indicate whether the customer is (1) a competitively declared utility customer (generally large commercial and industrial customers) – these customers will receive the utility rebate at the $250/kW or kWh rate), or (2) a non-competitively declared utility customer (generally residential and small commercial customers) – these customers will receive the utility rebate at the $300/kW or kWh rate). View more information on making this determination
- Both the utility distributed generation rebate and the utility storage rebate will be taken into account (as applicable) when calculating the savings percentage if the customer keeps the rebate payment.
- Updated calculations to estimate the value of electricity generated from the solar project, which includes new fields (all Residential Solar and Non-Profit and Public Facilities Disclosure Forms)
The Program Administrator has also provided an example of an updated Disclosure Form and more information on new calculations for the value of electricity generated by the solar project.