The Illinois Solar for All (ILSFA) Program Administrator is announcing the projects selected for the Illinois Solar for All: Community Solar and the Illinois Solar for All: Non-Profit and Public Facilities sub-programs.
Based on the Project Selection Protocol, the selected projects within the Community Solar sub-program for the 2018-2019 program year have been posted. The list of selected Non-Profit and Public Facilities Projects for the 2018-2019 program year has also been posted.
The last project selected has incentive values greater than the remaining annual sub-program budget available within the Renewable Energy Resources Fund. In this case, as outlined in the Project Selection Protocol, the Approved Vendor for this project may choose to:
- Reduce the project size, or
- Build the originally planned project size but accept the reduced payment in exchange for RECs from a portion of the total array, or
- Forgo ILSFA REC incentives.
The Approved Vendor has until Wednesday, August 28, 2019, at 12 p.m. CT to notify the Program Administrator of its decision. In the case that the Approved Vendor decides to forgo the REC incentives, that project would remain at the top of the 2018-2019 Community Solar project waitlist, while the next project on the ranked list will either be selected or given the same options based on the project’s size and the remaining incentives in the sub-program budget. A final list of selected projects for the 2018-2019 program year will be posted when the Community Solar sub-program budget has been fully allocated.
The Illinois Power Agency exercised its authority under Section 8.5 of the Long-Term Renewable Resources Procurement Plan to allocate $355,723.97 of utility funding from other sub-programs’ unused 2018-2019 utility budgets (of that amount, 60% from the Illinois Solar for All: Residential Solar and 40% from the Illinois Solar for All: Non-Profit and Public Facilities sub-programs) to the Community Solar sub-program for the 2018-2019 program year.
Funds not allocated to 2018-2019 program year projects will be rolled over to the 2019-2020 program year’s budgets.