Van Gundys Goes Solar

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO)_Van Gundy's recycles more than 4 million pounds of scrap metal every month and now they'll have the help of the sun to do it.

On Friday, the recycling center cut a giant check in half to demonstrate the more than $10,000 it will save a year with a new 85,000 kilowatt solar plant.

Van Gundy's says it strives to be a clean, safe and efficient recycling facility and not just another 'scrap yard.'

"The system should pay for itself in about three years, so it really, the benefit of it far out ways the expense of installing it" says Dean Van Gundy.

The solar power plant is one of the Western Slopes largest.

Atlasta Solar Center installed it.