Nearly 40 years after President Carter had 32 solar panels installed on the White House's roof, he watched nearly 4,000 of them go up in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, in 2017. The panels were ...

Solar-Thermal Panel by InterTechnology/Solar Corporation, 1979, installed on the roof of the White House by President Jimmy Carter. This is a flat plate solar collector, which uses the sun's energy to ...

We could have improved photovoltaic technology faster ... Alas, they did not, so Carter’s White House solar panels today are also a symbol; not so much of a road not taken but of a road not ...

Warren K. Leffler/U.S. News & World Report via Library of Congress President Jimmy Carter speaks in front of the solar panels installed on the roof of the West Wing of the White House as he ...

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the roof of the White House. Amid an energy crisis, Carter hoped to reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil. President Ronald Reagan ...

Carter added solar panels to the White House in 1979. They were later removed by his successor, former President Ronald Regan. Today, some of the panels live at Unity College in Central Maine ...

1988. The newly elected president had solar panels installed to warm the reviewing stand near the White House, where Carter watched the inauguration parade. Even the stand itself was made of steel ...