White House Solar Panels Reagan

This symbolic installation was taken down in 1986 during the reagan presidency.

White house solar panels reagan.

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. The reagan administration weren t fans of solar. Reagan who didn t think much of solar energy also allowed the tax credit carter had instated to lapse. 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.

To understand what happened we have to go back to the reagan administration. In 1991 unity college an environmentally centered college in maine acquired the panels and later installed them on their cafeteria. The 32 panels were ripped out in 1986 as yes you guessed right. 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.

Seven years after the west wing roof party in 1986 the symbolic solar collectors met with roof repairs and they were never re installed. Ronald reagan helped tear down the berlin wall and he also helped tear down the white house s solar panels. President ronald reagan removes carter s solar panels. That system is working.

Here is a video we created on the issue. The white house did not have solar panels in 2000. That also meant no solar panels. Five years later president reagan inexplicably had the free clean energy sources removed.

George charles szego the engineer who persuaded carter to install the solar panels reportedly claimed that reagan s chief of staff donald t. 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. And in 1986 the reagan administration quietly dismantled the white house solar panel installation while resurfacing the roof. 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.