The White House Solar Panels

Obama reinstalls solar on white house for first time in 40 years.

The white house solar panels.

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. Today the group of buildings housing the presidency is known as the white house complex. President barack obama s decision in 2010 to install white house solar panels pleased environmentalists. Two smaller solar thermal systems were also installed to heat water.

It all started back in 1979 when then president jimmy carter installed 32 solar panels on the white house roof. 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. 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. A white house solar panel on arrival at the science museum s conservation lab.

The white house itself harvests the power of the sun. A generation from now this solar heater can either be a curiosity a museum piece an example of a road not taken or. Solar photovoltaic panels and water heaters are installed on the building s roof. 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.