Did The White House Have Solar Panels

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.

Did the white house have solar panels.

In 2003 solar photovoltaic panels were installed at the white house. 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. 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.

Multiply by reagan s 32 solar panels and you get 33 6 kwh of clean energy every day for free. The white house did not have solar panels in 2000. Originally panels were installed in the late 70s during. It was a 9 kilowatt system.

The average solar panel from the era produces approximately 1 05 kwh of energy every day. Two smaller solar thermal systems were also installed to heat water. The tumultuous saga of solar panels on the white house. He installed two solar systems one to heat the pool and spa water and one for other hot water.

The reagan administration weren t fans of solar. It has already raised my prices on solar panels by about 15 to 20 percent said barry cinnamon the founder of cinnamon solar a. Back in 2010 the obama administration announced that it would be restoring solar panels to the roof of the white house residence. To understand what happened we have to go back to the reagan administration.