The panels, removed under Ronald Reagan, found new homes from Maine to China. And their legacy still reverberates.

Unity College acquired the panels in 1991 after they were removed from the White House, and they were used to heat water at ...

Nearly 40 years after President Carter had 32 solar panels installed on the White House's roof, he watched nearly 4,000 of ...

Amid the energy crisis of the 1970s, President Jimmy Carter hoped to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

Alas, they did not, so Carter’s White House solar panels today are also a symbol ... one of the 32 was saved and now resides at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, one ...

Jimmy Carter’s White House solar panels are a symbol — not so much of a road not taken but of a road not taken fast enough in ...

In 1991, the array of 32 solar panels formerly atop the White House was ... were given to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.; the Carter Presidential Library ...

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 ...

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 ...