White House To Install Rooftop Solar Panels

The White House residences will run with the aid of solar power, the Obama administration said today.

Solar panels next year, hot water and electricity supply to the executive mansion the White House in the spring are scheduled to be installed on the roof. Energy Secretary Steven Chu Green Gov. Seminar, George Washington University, White House Council on Environmental Quality Management offered by the two solar installations during a speech declared.

"The project is led by President Obama solar energy and jobs in the U.S. reflects the strong commitment that they make here at home, said Chu said in a statement." Nationwide deployment of solar technology in the coming years the U.S. to help lead the global economy. "
White House procurement process to select a company will have to plant. The two installations - one that sits in sunlight to electricity and other water to be hot - is to make the technology available and reliable, the Energy Department said in its statement.
During his speech, Chu step DOE Energy Efficiency Agency listed a number of facilities have improved. For example, the agency's computer facilities sensors, and cooling to cut costs using virtualization and DOE buildings roof replacement, cooling load by default uses short for light-colored roof, he said.
The main building, the Dow to see an agency that can save the most money for the contest started submetering electricity consumption. "We want a social norm and power savings to make money" Chu said.
History of the sun at the White House Move residence to put solar panels on the White House is only four weeks after the White House environmental activist Bill McKibben to install solar panels offer rebuffed. President Jimmy Carter installed solar panels in 1979 McKibben explored and taken to the White House. That Obama Administration officials refused to take him back, and instead met with a promise to work on "deliberative process."
Carter White House kitchen needs some of the hot water panels were installed. Six years after the OPEC oil embargo was a time when solar energy was growing in the U.S.
President Ronald Reagan in 1986 had removed the panels. During that period, research and development in renewable energy and money to the sun slow shrinking industry. In 2003, President George W. Bush in the White House quietly in the grounds of the White House residence three solar systems, pool cabana on the hot water panels, including but not installed.
Obama White House clean energy a centerpiece of his policy goals, but a joint Energy and Climate Change Bill earlier this year failed.
In an interview with Rolling Stone last month, Obama said the administration's approach to clean energy now will back a sequence. For example, there is a legislative mandate that utilities own energy needs with renewable sources or efficiency are proposed. Obama's weekly radio address on Saturday, a solar project and the number of jobs made it highlighted.
Environmental groups and the White House solar energy solar companies have been few in number to administer a few months is asked to consider their use. "The nation's most important house on the roof of a powerful symbol of the sun is calling on all Americans to consider how we create energy" Solar Energy Industries Association President Rhone Resch said in a statement.
Chu in a blog post today, Energy Department site that echoed the thought: "Worldwide, the White House a symbol of freedom and democracy that the U.S. commitment to a clean energy future must be a symbol of..