Most people aren t aware of is that the white house grounds are actually administered by the national park service and shortly after george w bush was elected president the park service installed a 10 kilowatt photovoltaic service system of 167 panels the first solar electric system on white house grounds as well as 2 thermal solar.
Bush solar panels white house.
Special editor s note from the ecomall.
Many people don t seem to remember that george w.
In 2003 solar photovoltaic panels were installed at the white house.
In 1980 the reagan administration removed perfectly good working solar thermal panels from the white house these same solar collectors are still working at unity college in unity maine.
Bush installed a system on the grounds but they weren t technically on the white house roof itself.
Solar energy is back at the white house.
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 george w.
The bush administration itself never really announced the project.
One for landscape maintenance personnel the other for the presidential pool and spa.
The ecomall spearheaded the proposal to solarize the white house forming the solar campaign with other solar energy.
That may be because the solar panels jimmy carter installed on the.
The white house is the official residence and workplace of the president of the united states it is located at 1600 pennsylvania avenue nw in washington d c and has been the residence of every u s.
The residence was designed by irish born architect james hoban in the.
The term white house is often used as a metonym for the president and his advisers.