Carter Solar Panels
These are arguably the most famous solar panels ever installed.
Carter solar panels. While jimmy carter was in the white house he championed new energy and became the first president to use solar panels to power portions of the building. In 1979 in the throes of the u s. In the year 2000 this solar water heater. In 1979 jimmy carter in a forward looking move installed solar panels in the roof of the white house.
Jimmy carter put solar panels on his farmland and they re now powering half of his georgia hometown. On a june day in 1979 jimmy carter unveiled 32 thermal solar panels perched atop the roof of the west wing of the white house. Energy crisis then president jimmy carter addressed the nation as he installed 32 solar panels designed to use the sun s energy to heat water. The setting was perfect the sun was shining as the press came out to document this momentous occasion.
This symbolic installation was taken down in 1986 during the reagan presidency.