Did The White House Have Solar Panels

It has already raised my prices on solar panels by about 15 to 20 percent said barry cinnamon the founder of cinnamon solar a.

Did the white house have solar panels. Multiply by reagan s 32 solar panels and you get 33 6 kwh of clean energy every day for free. 365 days a year 24 year that s 294 336 kwh of dirty energy bought and burned because of one bad decision by ronald reagan. Originally panels were installed in the late 70s during. In 2003 solar photovoltaic panels were installed at the white house.

Some activists have called on the obama administration to bring solar back to the white house roof and solar company sungevity has offered to install 102 of its photovoltaic panels. The reagan administration weren t fans of solar. One for landscape maintenance personnel the other for the presidential pool and spa. Bush may not have restored carter s panels to the white house roof but he did install the first system to provide the grounds with some solar generated electricity on the roof of the grounds maintenance building.

The white house did not have solar panels in 2000. The effects have also been felt in the rooftop solar industry. It was a 9 kilowatt system. Over the last 40 years solar panels have been installed and removed on the white house under three different presidents starting with jimmy carter installing panels and reagan removing them less than 10 years later.

The 32 panels were ripped out in 1986 as yes you guessed right. Two smaller solar thermal systems were also installed to heat water. The tumultuous saga of solar panels on the white house. To understand what happened we have to go back to the reagan administration.