Ronald Reagan Remove Solar Panels From White House

On june 20 1979 the carter administration installed 32 panels designed to harvest the sun s rays and use them to heat water.

Ronald reagan remove solar panels from white house.

President ronald reagan took office in 1981 and the solar panels were removed during his administration. Solar panels finally back on the white house almost 30 years after reagan removed them new 50 comments by nathan ingraham may 9 2014 1 50pm edt. Author natalie goldstein wrote in global warming. The average solar panel from the era produces approximately 1 05 kwh of energy every day.

Seven years after the west wing roof party in 1986 the symbolic solar collectors met with roof repairs and they were never re installed. In 1979 jimmy carter in a forward looking move installed solar panels in the roof of the white house. It was clear reagan had a completely different take on energy consumption. 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.

In 1991 unity college an environmentally centered college in maine acquired the panels and later installed them on their cafeteria. Reagan s political philosophy viewed the free market as the best arbiter of what was good for the country. In 1986 ronald reagan removed the solar panels installed by jimmy carter from the white house. The tumultuous saga of solar panels on the white house.

That also meant no solar panels. Reagan who didn t think much of solar energy also allowed the tax credit carter had instated to lapse. They were put in a warehouse in virginia and forgotten. Multiply by reagan s 32 solar panels and you get 33 6 kwh of clean energy every day for free.

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 white house itself once harvested the power of the sun. Dirck halstead getty images. 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.