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Boulder climbing gym gets clean energy grant from the feds
Movement Climbing and Fitness gym in Boulder | Photo by MovementBoulder.com
Boulder’s latest climbing gym — which just upped the number of places local hardmen (and hardwomen) can pull down on plastic holds to 3 — was awarded one of 12 companies to get money in the first round of federal renewable energy grants from the stimulus act.
Movement Climbing and Fitness got $157, 809 to offset the cost of their solar system, which provides 80 percent of the gym’s energy.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which passed in February, allows companies to get a cash grant for up to 30 percent of the cost of installing renewable energy, instead of getting a tax credit for the same amount.
The grant to the climbing gym, which opened in late July, was the smallest of the 12. The largest, $114 million, went to a wind farm in Texas.
Read more about the Movement gym at DailyCamera.com. or learn more about the grants from the U.S. Treasury Department.
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