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Though not an agenda item, more than 20 people attended the Brown County Commissioner’s meeting Monday morning to continue commenting on a proposed solar farm in southwest Brown County.  Several people registered to speak during public comments, all opposing the proposed solar farm.  One man was opposed to tax abatement in general while another man suggested approving the project would be the beginning of many renewable energy projects in Brown County.  Commissioners received the comments but there was no further comments or action taken. Previous KOXE Stories from December 2020 are belo...

Speakers disagree on possible tax abatement for solar farm Brownwood Bulletin A standing-room-only audience attended Monday's meeting of the Brown County Commissioners Court as the court voted 4-1 to approve guidelines and criteria for tax abatement. While a proposed solar power farm near Brookesmith generated the large attendance and numerous comments, commissioner Gary Worley stressed the court was not approving a tax abatement at that time. The guidelines will apply to any company seeking a tax abatement, Worley said. The court took the vote after hearing comments from about a dozen speake...

Brown County Commissioners approved the adoption of guidelines and criteria for the purpose of potential future tax abatements during Monday’s meeting at the Brown County Courthouse. All four commissioners – Precinct 1’s Gary Worley, Precinct 2’s Joel Kelton, Precinct 3’s Wayne Shaw and Precinct 4’s Larry Traweek – voted in favor, while County Judge Paul Lilly stated his opposition. Worley stated, “Establishing guidelines and criteria does not mean we will automatically grant a tax abatement to Radiant Solar or anyone else. What it does mean is that 3M, Kohler, Superior Essex ...

Energy storage startup Powin Energy has raised more than $100 million in equity investment to compete with better-funded rivals in the large-scale grid battery market. Powin buys battery cells and hooks them up with proprietary software controls and ancillary equipment to produce full-fledged power plants. It competes in the upper echelons of the energy storage integration market with the likes of Tesla, Fluence and Wärtsilä. But those competitors are storage businesses nestled within billion-dollar, publicly traded enterprises. Powin is a bootstrapped company based amid the evergreens...

A large solar power plant has been proposed for southwestern Brown County, near Brookesmith. The company that would construct and operate the plant is Intersect Power of San Francisco, California. The project would be constructed on approximately 3,000 acres within the Brookesmith Independent School District and would produce 300-megawatts of power, 830-gigawatts annually, enough to power nearly 60,000 homes, according to Intersect. Brown County Commissioners thus far have taken no action on a request for a tax abatement for a solar power farm project. The following two pieces were submitted...