But he wasn t the first president to take advantage of alternative forms of energy atop the living quarters at 1600 pennsylvania avenue.
Obama free solar panels.
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The obama administration is unveiling a project tuesday designed to make it easier for residents of low and moderate income housing and renters to obtain solar panels for energy production.
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Solyndra was a manufacturer of cylindrical panels of copper indium gallium selenide cigs thin film solar cells based in fremont california although the company was once touted for its unusual technology plummeting silicon prices led to the company s being unable to compete with conventional solar panels made of crystalline silicon.
President barack obama s decision in 2010 to install white house solar panels pleased environmentalists.
Solar powering america is an interagency initiative between the u s.
Obama referred to solyndra s loan at an oct.
Department of housing and urban development hud and the environmental protection agency epa to support greater solar deployment.
The second company is abound solar manufacturing which will manufacture advanced solar panels at two new plants creating more than 2 000 construction jobs and 1 500 permanent jobs obama said.
President obama is committed to ensuring that every american family can choose to go solar and to cut their energy bills and that every american community has the tools they need to tackle local air pollution and global climate change.
President obama exaggerated when defending his administration s approval of a 535 million loan guarantee to solyndra a now defunct solar company.
The first solar panels were placed on the white house more than 30 years earlier by jimmy carter and removed by the very next administration.
Please click here to view a video on access to solar panels featuring president obama.
The company filed for bankruptcy on september 1 2011.
President obama offers new ways to put solar panels on low income housing like these panels on a colorado public housing project and expand solar for others with limited access to clean energy.
Bush and his republican controlled congress began the green energy loan subsidies program the energy policy act of 2005 that ultimately provided.