The White House Solar Panels

A generation from now this solar heater can either be a curiosity a museum piece an example of a road not taken or.

The white house solar panels.

But he wasn t the first president to take advantage of alternative forms of energy atop the living quarters at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. In 2003 solar photovoltaic panels were installed at the white house. The first solar panels were placed on the white house more than 30 years earlier by jimmy carter and removed by the very next administration. In 2013 in response to calls from the solar industry obama announced that solar panels would be installed on the roof of the white house for the first time since carter installed the first panels in 1979.

A white house solar panel on arrival at the science museum s conservation lab. In 2013 president barack obama had a set of solar panels installed on the roof of the white house making it the first time solar power would be used for the president s living quarters. It all started back in 1979 when then president jimmy carter installed 32 solar panels on the white house roof. Today the group of buildings housing the presidency is known as the white house complex.

The fate of the panels is even more poignant by the fact that on the day of their installation on the white house roof president carter stated. Obama reinstalls solar on white house for first time in 40 years. President barack obama s decision in 2010 to install white house solar panels pleased environmentalists. Solar photovoltaic panels and water heaters are installed on the building s roof.