Starr County denies refund to Duke Energy
RIO GRANDE CITY — Duke Energy Renewables was hoping to receive a refund after confusion about how much they owed the county, but the commissioners flatly denied that request on Monday.
The commissioners denied the request for a $27,563 refund from the company that owns the wind farms in the area.
Duke Energy completed three wind farm projects in Starr County last year with a total of 426 turbines in the area, which came with a tax-abatement agreement of $295,000 for one of their projects.
Their refund request stemmed from an early-payment discount that the county offers. If the company had paid taxes to the county before the start of the year, which was when the abatement kicked in, they would have been entitled to the discount, according to Rose Benavidez, president of the Starr County Industrial Foundation.
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