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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.
The Lyme Central School District had agreed to a deal with the company, but the county, town and village did not.
That fact, and the fact the the county, town and village did not counter in the time-frame required by state tax law, means Convergent was under no legal obligation to pay them.
The new deal, announced Thursday, includes a PILOT deal for the municipalities and a separate deal with the school.

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