A new tax deal has been reached in Jefferson County, ending a long-standing concern that an energy storage company wasn’t paying its fair share to local jurisdictions.
Convergent Energy and Power operates a solar battery storage facility in the town of Lyme, and the company had been paying the taxes it was legally obligated to.
But after a fire in 2023, for which they used state and local resources to recover from, state Assemblyman Scott Gray questioned if those payments were still considered a fair share…