In 2003 solar photovoltaic panels were installed at the white house.
The white house solar panels.
Obama reinstalls solar on white house for first time in 40 years.
Solar photovoltaic panels and water heaters are installed on the building s roof.
The fate of the panels is even more poignant by the fact that on the day of their installation on the white house roof president carter stated.
The white house itself harvests the power of the sun.
A white house solar panel on arrival at the science museum s conservation lab.
In 2013 president barack obama had a set of solar panels installed on the roof of the white house making it the first time solar power would be used for the president s living quarters.
But he wasn t the first president to take advantage of alternative forms of energy atop the living quarters at 1600 pennsylvania avenue.
Two smaller solar thermal systems were also installed to heat water.
President barack obama s decision in 2010 to install white house solar panels pleased environmentalists.
Today the group of buildings housing the presidency is known as the white house complex.
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.
One for landscape maintenance personnel the other for the presidential pool and spa.