Burgess BioPower makes $523,000 payment
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Burgess BioPower made a payment of $523,000 to Berlin last week, the first payment to the city from the facility’s sale of renewable energy certificates as outlined in the payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement. City officials will use the funds to reduce one of the state’s highest property tax rates by a full $1 per thousand dollars of valuation and to purchase vital new equipment for the Berlin Public Works Department. From left: Berlin City Manager Jim Wheeler and Berlin Mayor Paul Grenier accept the check from Dammon Frecker, executive vice president of CS Operations Inc., at Burgess BioPower. (COURTESY PHOTO)

BERLIN — Burgess BioPower made a $523,000 payment to the city last week — the first payment to the city from the facility’s sale of renewable energy certificates as outlined in the payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement.

The city council has voted to use the funds to help reduce one of the state’s highest property tax rates by a full $1 per thousand dollars of valuation and to purchase vital new equipment for the Berlin Public Works Department.

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