Among the many causes Carter championed was renewable energy, which led him to install solar panels on the White House in 1979. His successor, President Ronald Reagan, did not share Carter's ...

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 ...

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 taken fast enough in America. By the way, Carter was also ...

Community solar projects allow subscribers to benefit from the renewable energy source even without installing solar panels.

The Department of Government Efficiency and the Trump administration have unfrozen the $156 million grant associated with ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said your family's life could depend on having a solar roof. But the admin he's a part of already froze solar funds.

Jimmy Carter famously installed solar panels on the White House in 1979. (His successor removed them.) With the passing of our 39th president on Dec. 29 at age 100, a whirlwind tour of the ...

Jimmy Carter was the first president to install White House solar panels, then Ronald Reagan removed them. Here's what happened. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the roof ...

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 ...