In 2010, then-U.S. President Barack Obama announced that solar panels would once again be installed on the White House rooftop. The installation was completed in 2014 . The video below highlights ...

Solar panels that used to power the White House are shown on top of a building at Unity College in Maine. (Courtesy of 350.org) WASHINGTON -- Solar power is coming to President Barack Obama's house.

U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaking in front of Solar Panels placed on West Wing Roof of White House, announcing his solar energy policy, June 20, 1979.

"Solar panels at the White House are a really important message that solar is here, we are doing it, we can do a lot more," Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said in a video released by the White House.

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 ...

White House solar panels finally installed By . Associated Press. Published May 10, 2014, 5:07 a.m. ET. The South Portico of the White House in Washington on Friday, May 9, 2014.

Environmental activists cheered the White House's embrace of solar energy. "Better late than never - in truth, no one should ever have taken down the panels Jimmy Carter put on the roof way back ...

WASHINGTON -- Last October, the Obama administration announced plans to install solar panels on the roof of the White House by the spring of this year, returning the power of the sun to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...