Illinois

Illinois State Solar Overview

Illinois is a growing solar market that has benefited from a strong renewable portfolio standard that requires they generate 25% of their energy from renewable sources by 2025. The amount of solar capacity installed in Illinois is expected to grow by more than 1,700% over the next five years.

SEIA Illinois State Policy Priorities

• SEIA continues to actively advocate for “Path to 100” HB2966/SB 1781 in Illinois, which increases the RPS from 25% by 2025 to 40% by 2030 and increases REC procurement from 10 million by 2020 to 45 million by 2030 with 50/50 split from solar and wind.
• SEIA is an intervening party in the Part 466/467 Interconnection Rulemaking before the Illinois Commerce Commission to advocate for changes to the Rule that will ensure a uniform, fair and transparent process for distributed generation and community solar projects in the state.
• SEIA is an intervening party in the Ameren DG Rebate investigation as well as the Ameren Rider NM investigation before the Illinois Commerce Commission to prevent the end of retail net metering for residential customers before a successor DG tariff is put in place.
• SEIA is actively working with the Governor’s Office to craft legislation related to its recently released Eight Governing Principles for a Clean Renewable Illinois which focuses on increasing focus on substantially increasing utility accountability and transparency, creating new clean energy jobs in Illinois, reducing harmful emissions and maintaining low energy costs for consumers and industrial users.
• SEIA is actively engaged in discussions with the Illinois Power Agency and other relevant government agencies to address current prohibition of door-to-door marketing and sales of distributed generation due to COVID-19.
• SEIA is participating in discussions with the Illinois Department of Revenue to discuss potential concerns related to property tax exemptions for solar projects financed by a third party PPA.
• SEIA successfully prevented Commonwealth Edison from starting an administrative service on its website that would exclude community solar projects who did not opt-in to the service for a fee