Reagan Took Solar Panels Off The White House

Five years later president reagan inexplicably had the free clean energy sources removed.

Reagan took solar panels off the white house.

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. In 1991 unity college an environmentally centered college in maine acquired the panels and later installed them on their cafeteria. But in a curious parallel with the current occupant of the white house the panels weren t actually removed until 1986 five years after reagan took office. Reagan took solar panels off the white house.

Regardless of their ultimate fate it took the pluck and initiative of one man to rescue the carter white house solar panels from the dustbin of political and ecological history. Author natalie goldstein wrote in global warming. July 17 2017. The tumultuous saga of solar panels on the white house.

It all started back in 1979 when then president jimmy carter installed 32 solar panels on the white house roof. Solar photovoltaic panels and water heaters are installed on the building s roof. Dirck halstead getty images. This symbolic installation was taken down in 1986 during the reagan presidency.

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. Reagan s political philosophy viewed the free market as the best arbiter of what was good for the country. Jimmy carter installed 32 solar panels on the white house roof when he was president in the late 1970s. The panels ended up at unity college in maine where.

When the reagans moved into the white house in 1981 they inherited 32 solar panels generating carbon free electricity on the west wing roof. When ronald reagan took office in 1981 one of his first actions as president was to have the panels which his chief of staff allegedly said reagan felt were just a joke removed. There was a lot. In 1979 jimmy carter in a forward looking move installed solar panels in the roof of the white house.

Reagan who didn t think much of solar energy also allowed the tax credit carter had instated to lapse. Reagan saw the solar panels installed by carter for what they were a public relations stunt and ordered them dismantled.