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

EPHRATA — With the cost of everything going up, some homeowners want to embrace self-sufficiency in energy by mounting solar panels on their roofs to generate power. And considering the Basin’s ...

His successor, President Ronald Reagan, did not share Carter's passion and had them removed during repairs to the roof. The fate of Carter's White House solar panels exemplifies how presidents can ...

The need for alternative sources of energy and a desire for energy independence prompted President Jimmy Carter to install the first solar panels on the roof of the White House in 1979. The panels ...

On June 20, 1979, President Jimmy Carter invited reporters up to the White House roof for a ceremony to inaugurate the ...

In the renewable energy arena, Jimmy Carter is perhaps best known for having solar panels installed on the roof of the White ...

Again, it was that year that the Reagan team quietly took down the Carter solar panels while resurfacing the White House roof. It always takes patience to bring a president’s true legacy into focus.

When it came to protecting Mother Earth, in many respects, the late President Jimmy Carter was way ahead of his time.

The need for alternative sources of energy and a desire for energy independence prompted President Jimmy Carter to install the first solar panels on the roof of the White House in 1979.