White House Solar Panels Reagan

The 32 panels were ripped out in 1986 as yes you guessed right.

White house solar panels reagan.

Seven years after the west wing roof party in 1986 the symbolic solar collectors met with roof repairs and they were never re installed. In 1979 jimmy carter in a forward looking move installed solar panels in the roof of the white house. The reagan administration weren t fans of solar. Regan felt that the equipment was just a joke and he had it taken down the panels were removed in 1986 when work was being done on the white house roof below the panels.

Solar panels finally back on the white house almost 30 years after reagan removed them new 50 comments by nathan ingraham may 9 2014 1 50pm edt. This symbolic installation was taken down in 1986 during the reagan presidency. Five years later president reagan inexplicably had the free clean energy sources removed. That also meant no solar panels.

When the reagans moved into the white house in 1981 they inherited 32 solar panels generating carbon free electricity on the west wing roof. The white house did not have solar panels in 2000. Reagan who didn t think much of solar energy also allowed the tax credit carter had instated to lapse. George charles szego the engineer who persuaded carter to install the solar panels reportedly claimed that reagan s chief of staff donald t.

That system is working. Ronald reagan helped tear down the berlin wall and he also helped tear down the white house s solar panels. Under reagan funding was cut for the newly formed department of energy and in 1986 when the white house needed roof repairs under the solar thermal panels the reagan administration removed the panels and quietly decided to not reinstall them claiming it simply wasn t a cost effective option. And in 1986 the reagan administration quietly dismantled the white house solar panel installation while resurfacing the roof.

To understand what happened we have to go back to the reagan administration. Although carter s solar panels remained on the roof of the white house for seven years throughout ronald reagan s first term and into his second the solar panels were removed for roof repairs and never re installed. 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. They were put in a warehouse in virginia and forgotten.