By Austyn Gaffney It was a novel idea at the time, but one that made sense: In 1979, President Jimmy Carter had 32 solar panels installed on the roof of the White House. They were removed just ...

Praise for Carter's deployment of hot water solar panels ignores, among other things, his promotion of coal and synthetic ...

Nearly 40 years after President Carter had 32 solar panels installed on the White House's roof, he watched nearly 4,000 of them go up in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, in 2017. The panels were ...

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

The president’s executive orders don't single out solar energy, but his freeze on climate spending could affect the industry ...

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.

Solar customers respond to uncertainty Jorge Solares says he decided last summer to install solar panels on his house in the ...

A proposed law requiring all new homes to have solar panels suggested by Cheltenham's MP has been rejected. The New Homes (Solar Generation) Bill, brought by Liberal Democrat Max Wilkinson, was ...

Among the many causes Carter championed was renewable energy, which led him to install solar panels on the White House in 1979. His successor, President Ronald Reagan, did not share Carter's ...

Getty Images Addressing the House of Commons, Mr Wilkinson said compulsory solar panels on new homes could result in "a future in which people have lower household bills, a future in which we are ...