View Of White House Solar Panels

The panels were used to heat water for the first family and for water in the white house laundry.

View of white house solar panels.

President barack obama s decision in 2010 to install white house solar panels pleased environmentalists. But he wasn t the first president to take advantage of alternative forms of energy atop the living quarters at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. Jimmy james carter the 39 th president of the united states was the first president to install solar panels on the white house and he used them to heat the water for the staff kitchen. 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.

Solar photovoltaic panels and water heaters are installed on the building s roof. Former president carter s decision was certainly a symbolic one as the solar panels were installed during the 1979 oil crisis. In september 2010 a group of students from unity college presented white house officials with one of president carter s used solar panels to commemorate the administration s solar initiative. The briefing room the rose garden the south lawn.

It all started back in 1979 when then president jimmy carter installed 32 solar panels on the white house roof. He wanted to show off a brand new array of 32 solar panels. The panels can be seen at the smithsonian s national museum of american history in washington d c jimmy carter presidential library and museum in atlanta georgia and the solar science and technology museum in dezhou china. The white house was included in this mandate and solar panels were installed there in 2010.

In 1979 president jimmy carter chose a loftier venue. The white house itself harvests the power of the sun.