Did The White House Have Solar Panels

Some activists have called on the obama administration to bring solar back to the white house roof and solar company sungevity has offered to install 102 of its photovoltaic panels.

Did the white house have solar panels.

It has already raised my prices on solar panels by about 15 to 20 percent said barry cinnamon the founder of cinnamon solar a. Over the last 40 years solar panels have been installed and removed on the white house under three different presidents starting with jimmy carter installing panels and reagan removing them less than 10 years later. To understand what happened we have to go back to the reagan administration. The 32 panels were ripped out in 1986 as yes you guessed right.

The bush administration did not publicize the installations which reportedly now heat the white house pool. In 2003 solar photovoltaic panels were installed at the white house. He installed two solar systems one to heat the pool and spa water and one for other hot water. Bush may not have restored carter s panels to the white house roof but he did install the first system to provide the grounds with some solar generated electricity on the roof of the grounds maintenance building.

The tumultuous saga of solar panels on the white house. Reagan did have four children but the youngest ron had a career as a dancer in ny when reagan moved into the white house. One for landscape maintenance personnel the other for the presidential pool and spa. Two smaller solar thermal systems were also installed to heat water.

The effects have also been felt in the rooftop solar industry. In 2002 the national park service quietly installed a small number of solar panels on a maintenance building they manage on white house grounds marking a semi return to the use of solar power. In 1979 president carter installed 32 solar thermal panels on the roof of the white house generating hot water for the showers and the kitchen. The reagan administration weren t fans of solar.

They were flat plate panels and were not installed. The white house did not have solar panels in 2000.