DeWitt County Board Chair Joe Witte anticipates multiple solar applications this year.

On the WHOW Morning Show Friday, the County Board Chair told Regional Radio the Board is preparing for multiple applications and getting agreements ready with engineering firms for those applications.

Additionally, Witte and the Board received feedback just this week from the developers of the Wapella Bluffs project. While no application from them has been submitted and nothing seems imminent, he notes it was a little late in the process to take into account the requests and recommendations they made.

A little less than a year ago, leadership from Enel - the proprieter of the Alta Farms II Wind Farm - came before the County Board expressing a desire for a better relationship. Since that time, the DeWitt County Board has had its own turnover but Witte points out, so too has Enel and they continue to have issues with compliance of the wind farm.