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"The Washington Post‘s indefatigable Juliet Eilperin got an unnamed official at the White House to confirm that solar panels are being reinstalled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue this week—fulfilling a promise made by the Obama administration three years ago.
President Jimmy Carter famously put solar hot-water heating panels on the White House roof in the 1970s only to have President Ronald Reagan remove them in the 1980s, as he gutted funding for alternative energy research—a move Reagan’s own Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989 now regrets. Carter’s panels themselves have since been dealt out to the Smithsonian, a small college in Maine and a solar museum in, where else, China. And a new set of photovoltaic panels and solar hot water heaters returned to some of the buildings and facilities surrounding the White House the early 21st century, courtesy of President George W. Bush and the National Park Service.
According to Eilperin, the addition of the panels to the White House itself is part of an overall energy efficiency retrofit, which means the White House will finally come into line with rules that President Obama set for the rest of the federal government. "
"The Washington Post‘s indefatigable Juliet Eilperin got an unnamed official at the White House to confirm that solar panels are being reinstalled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue this week—fulfilling a promise made by the Obama administration three years ago.
President Jimmy Carter famously put solar hot-water heating panels on the White House roof in the 1970s only to have President Ronald Reagan remove them in the 1980s, as he gutted funding for alternative energy research—a move Reagan’s own Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989 now regrets. Carter’s panels themselves have since been dealt out to the Smithsonian, a small college in Maine and a solar museum in, where else, China. And a new set of photovoltaic panels and solar hot water heaters returned to some of the buildings and facilities surrounding the White House the early 21st century, courtesy of President George W. Bush and the National Park Service.
According to Eilperin, the addition of the panels to the White House itself is part of an overall energy efficiency retrofit, which means the White House will finally come into line with rules that President Obama set for the rest of the federal government. "