The DeWitt County Board's Land Use committee this week discussed briefly the flashing red lights at night on the Alta Farms II wind turbines. 

First-term board member Patrick Ryan wondered about those lights not complying with the ordinance and was met with information that there is no penalty for Enel Green Energy not meeting the requirements in the DeWitt County code.

Earlier this year, Enel addressed the DeWitt County Board with pledges of new leadership and better communication. Land Use Chair Buck Carter suggested reaching out to those individuals for an update on the progress of getting the required motion detection system to eliminate the flashing lights.

DeWitt County's ordinance calls for a motion lighting detection system so only if an aircraft is flying within a certain distance of the wind farm do the lights activate. Enel representatives told the County Board they have a system developed but it is not functioning properly.

County officials questioned if the energy company was committed to making it work because there were not many ordinances like DeWitt County's in its book of business.