First Solar Panels On White House

The national park service oversaw the installation of three solar energy systems on the white house grounds in 2002.

First solar panels on white house.

Solar energy at the white house. Much of carter s domestic policy focused on issues related to energy. Those first solar panels in the white house were installed by our 39th president jimmy carter. 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 george w.

Former president carter s decision was certainly a symbolic one as the solar panels were installed during the 1979 oil crisis. 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 building didn t use solar panels. All about president carter s energy policy.

Now let s take a look back at the june 1979 solar panel installation at the white house. Bush installed a system on the grounds but they weren t technically on the white house roof itself. A system of 167 photovoltaic panels was placed on the roof of the central maintenance building. In 1979 jimmy carter in a forward looking move installed solar panels in the roof of the white house.

In 1991 unity college an environmentally centered college in maine acquired the panels and later installed them on their cafeteria. 1979 carter installs first solar panels. Instead solar was integrated into the rooftop. Chapin et al s solar energy converting apparatus patented february 5 1957 u s.