White House Solar Panels Removed

Bush installed a system on the grounds but they weren t technically on the white house roof itself.

White house solar panels removed.

Reagan who didn t think much of solar energy also allowed the tax credit carter had instated to lapse. Solar photovoltaic panels and water heaters are installed on the building s roof. In 1991 unity college an environmentally centered college in maine acquired the panels and later installed them on their cafeteria. In 1986 when the price of energy was temporarily cheaper and americans minds were less focused on environmental issues president reagan ordered the panels removed from the white house roof.

In 1979 jimmy carter in a forward looking move installed solar panels in the roof of the white house. 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. This symbolic installation was taken down in 1986 during the reagan presidency. But in a curious parallel with the current occupant of the white house the panels weren t actually removed until 1986 five years after reagan took office.

Reagan saw the solar panels installed by carter for what they were a public relations stunt and ordered them dismantled. The panels were used to heat water for the first family and for water in the white house laundry and cafeteria.