While President Obama is away on vacation, the White House is getting a new addition. Solar panels. Construction workers are busy this week putting the panels in place, the first such installation ...

by Ben Geman - 08/15/13 4:28 PM ET by Ben Geman - 08/15/13 4:28 PM ET The White House is making good on a late 2010 pledge to put up solar panels.

Nearly 30 years after Ronald Reagan tossed the solar panels Jimmy Carter had built into the White House roof, the Obama administration has completed installation of new panels on top of the ...

With the goal of making solar panels aesthetically invisible, the Swiss private, nonprofit technology company CSEM has developed what it bills as the world's first white solar modules; designed to ...

The Obama Administration has installed solar panels on the White House for the first time in nearly 30 years. Of course, they could eventually be taken down again, as President Jimmy Carter’s ...

In 1979, Jimmy Carter had a series of 32 solar panels installed on the roof of the White House’s West Wing, with the hope that, someday in the future, they would be seen as “ a small part of ...

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter installed solar panels at the White House. His successor, Ronald Reagan, later removed them.

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter installed solar panels at the White House. His successor, Ronald Reagan, later removed them.

But Carter’s commitment to energy policy didn’t end there. In the summer of 1979, he had 32 solar panels installed on the roof of the West Wing of the White House, according to the National Museum of ...