Last week at the DeWitt County Board's June meeting, representatives from Enel Green Energy presented to the County Board. 

It was a little less than a year ago that Enel representatives committed to better communication with the County Board and returned at the request of the Board last week. Board Chair Joe Witte says there were three topics they wanted to hear from them on.

The curtailment of the towers during severe weather events has been an ongoing talking point for the County's Land Use Committee as well as on social media. Witte indicates Enel is curtailing the towers when they receive notice of a warning from the National Weather Service, although Witte expressed frustration with the promise of that process being automated when it is - in fact - not. 

Witte says the County's ordinances are not strong enough to force a change on the matter and so they will have to continue to be at the mercy of the human element involved in that process.

While the State of Illinois has come over the top on some regulation of wind energy development, Witte notes some of these things the County was able to correct recently in its ordinance review.

Despite frustration over the situation, Witte understands that a lot of things in the past are not a reflection of the current folks operating the Alta Farms II wind farm.