View Of White House Solar Panels

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.

View of white house solar panels.

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. Solar photovoltaic panels and water heaters are installed on the building s roof. But he wasn t the first president to take advantage of alternative forms of energy atop the living quarters at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. He didn t do it for the view over washington d c.

President barack obama s decision in 2010 to install white house solar panels pleased environmentalists. The white house was included in this mandate and solar panels were installed there in 2010. Today some of the original white house panels can be seen at museums in the united states and in china. 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.

In 1979 president jimmy carter chose a loftier venue. 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. The briefing room the rose garden the south lawn. Press conferences at the white house tend to occur in predictable locations.

The panels were used to heat water for the first family and for water in the white house laundry. He wanted to show off a brand new array of 32 solar panels.