A year into the process and the community is just starting to get a picture of the benefits available to Halstead in allowing a battery energy storage system (BESS) to be built in its industrial park. Starting, because Concurrent made its first offer to the city, and Halstead Mayor Dennis Travis said there are ancillary benefits they’re not going public with yet. Concurrent announced on Feb. 13 that they were offering Halstead $500,000 a year in exchange for allowing their BESS to exist in its industrial park. That announcement came days before the Kansas House of Representatives passed House Bill 2083, which will exempt the BESS from property taxes for the first 10 years if it’s passed by the Senate and signed into law.
Source: Harvey County Now
