White House Solar Panel
date: label: date made
content: ca 1977
name: label: user
content: Carter, Jimmy
label: maker
content: Inter Technology/Solar Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: During his term in office, President Jimmy Carter fought for clean energy using renewable sources. As a symbol of his faith in “the power of the sun,” Carter had 32 solar panels installed on the White House West Wing roof in the summer of 1979. These panels were used to heat water in the household for seven years until President Ronald Reagan had them removed in 1986. The panels were stored in a government warehouse until 1991, when they were acquired by Unity College in Maine. The college installed some of the panels to heat their cafeteria water.
label: Description
content: This solar panel is one of the original Carter White House panels and was donated to the National Museum of American History by Unity College in 2009.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Virginia, Warrenton
label: used
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: Environment
label: depicted
content: Environmental History
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content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Energy & Power
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content: Environmental History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.0154.01
label: catalog number
content: 2009.0154.01
label: accession number
content: 2009.0154
objectType: label: Object Name
content: solar panel
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 37 in x 78 in; 12.7 cm x 93.98 cm x 198.12 cm