Due to SRECTrade’s retirement as an Approved Vendor in the Illinois Adjustable Block Program on August 10th, 2022 (see this blog post for more information), extensions will no longer be filed for projects who have not met their interconnection deadlines.

Adjustable Block Program (ABP) projects are awarded a contract after their Part I approval. The project then has 12 or 18 months to provide energization documents and be submitted for Part II approval. In the past, SRECTrade has filed extensions on behalf of projects that required more time. Beginning in November, 2023, any projects that have not been Part II submitted by their deadline will be canceled with SRECTrade. This will result in the forfeit of the application and collateral fees (that are non-refundable once awarded a contract), and will require the project to be resubmitted through a different approved vendor to participate in the ABP program.

SRECTrade will continue to provide services for all applications that are Part II submitted prior to their energization deadline. To help ensure your application is not canceled, please submit any outstanding documents 6 weeks prior to your deadline.

SRECTrade looks forward to continuing service of its Designees and existing clients during the remainder of their participation in the ABP.

After careful consideration SRECTrade has made the decision to no longer provide Approved Vendor services for new Adjustable Block Program (ABP) eligible projects. This decision was made due to the increasing complexity and cost of servicing new assets under the ABP.

SRECTrade will continue to provide services for applications that were successfully submitted to SRECTrade’s portal before the June 15, 2022 closure. This includes applications that were originally submitted to SRECTrade as non-energized. Understanding that these non-energized applications require the energization information and documentation, SRECTrade will enable Part II of its application for existing customers to allow the submission of these materials. SRECTrade will announce this reopening date once all final changes to the application process have been announced by the IPA and new program administrator. 

SRECTrade remains committed to servicing all existing ABP customers throughout the duration of their 15 year REC contract. Most importantly SRECTrade will continue to make payments to projects scheduled to receive first time or quarterly payments and to work with customers to ensure their systems are meeting their contracted REC obligations.

SRECTrade would like to thank you for your patience and understanding during this transition. SRECTrade looks forward to serving its Designees and existing clients during the remainder of their participation in the ABP.

On May 16, 2022, the Illinois Power Agency (IPA) announced that subject to available capacity, currently open Small and Large Distributed Generation blocks will remain open until July 1, 2022. The Adjustable Block Program will then pause its acceptance of applications. 

The Program Administrators will start accepting Part I applications on September 1st, and Part II applications by November 1st. Please note that the Part II application may reopen sooner than November if feasible. 

You can find more information on the IPA’s decision here. Most notably, the Long-Term Plan is expected to be approved on July 14, 2022, and all applications submitted to the Program on or after September 1, 2022 will be subject to new or revised Program requirements outlined in the Long-Term Plan. 

As a result of the Adjustable Block Program closing its application, SRECTrade has made the decision to temporarily shut down its own application on June 15, 2022, at 5 PM CT. SRECTrade cannot guarantee submission of applications to Part I or Part II prior to the Program’s July 1st close. 

The closure of SRECTrade’s application will allow for SRECTrade to properly incorporate any required changes that arise with the passage of the Long-Term Plan. SRECTrade will announce the reopening date of its application once the changes have been confirmed and updates have been implemented. 

SRECTrade believes that the closure of its application is the most efficient path to application submissions. The temporary closure will mitigate the need to retroactively collect information for applications that is not currently required but will become required after the passage of the Long-Term Plan. 

Group A Large DG Block 5 closed on March 29, 2022 at 11:59 PM CT. Any Group A Large DG applications that were Part I submitted and batched prior to the closure were placed in Block 5. 

Group A Large DG applications Part I submitted and batched will now be added to the waitlist. Applications can be selected off of the waitlist as other applications withdraw and open capacity.

The addition of future blocks is dependent on the passage of the 2022 Long-Term Renewable Resources Procurement Plan.

On February 16, 2022, the Adjustable Block Program (ABP) issued an announcement stating that Demographic and Geographic Data will now be collected via the Part II application.

On February 25, 2022, SRECTrade made the announcement that its ABP application would be temporarily closed to energized projects to allow the appropriate changes to be made to our application so that it could collect the new Demographic and Geographic Data requirements. 

SRECTrade’s application has now been updated, and is open to energized and non-energized applications. 

The application requires the Demographic and Geographic Data for energized systems that are interconnected after September 15th, 2021.  

On February 23rd, SRECTrade made the announcement that it would be temporarily closing its website to all ABP (Adjustable Block Program) submissions so that the appropriate changes can be made regarding the newly enacted demographic and geographic data requirements for Part II of the ABP application.

In hopes of mitigating the delay of Part I applications, effective immediately, SRECTrade’s application portal will allow applications to be submitted for non-energized projects until further notice. An update will be released regarding the reopening of SRECTrade’s application portal for energized projects in the near future.