View Of White House Solar Panels

But he wasn t the first president to take advantage of alternative forms of energy atop the living quarters at 1600 pennsylvania avenue.

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. The briefing room the rose garden the south lawn. 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.

He wanted to show off a brand new array of 32 solar panels. Former president carter s decision was certainly a symbolic one as the solar panels were installed during the 1979 oil crisis. Today some of the original white house panels can be seen at museums in the united states and in china. Solar photovoltaic panels and water heaters are installed on the building s roof.

The white house was included in this mandate and solar panels were installed there in 2010. 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. It all started back in 1979 when then president jimmy carter installed 32 solar panels on the white house roof. 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.

Press conferences at the white house tend to occur in predictable locations. The white house itself harvests the power of the sun.