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County reviews battery-storage assessment, zoning and tax questions after presenter’s briefing
Summary
Commissioners heard a detailed briefing about proposed battery storage projects and debated whether units should be centrally assessed by the state or locally taxed, whether parcels should be rezoned industrial, and what guardrails to require in permits.
Commissioners on the Emmons County Board of Commissioners spent a substantial portion of the meeting reviewing a staff-packaged analysis of proposed battery-storage facilities and how the county should respond.
Christine Severson, who presented the county’s analysis, said the first question is ownership and assessment: whether the battery arrays will be centrally assessed by the state as utility property or assessed locally as land. “If we go by how the…are assessed, they’re essentially assessed by the state,” Severson said, arguing that batteries and the metal containers holding them tend to be treated as personal property and not taxed locally unless…
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