Calling it a deal too good to pass up, Dawson County commissioners approved to a tax abatement agreement for a battery electrical energy storage facility currently under construction on S. Elgin Ave.Businesses and companies utilize tax abatements with governmental taxing entities as a way to be exempt from paying property taxes. In exchange, cities and counties receive lower ad valorem taxes while hoping the projects attract new commercial projects into their areas.The battery storage project is not within the city limits, so it cannot ask for an abatement from city council members. It does lie within the water and hospital ...