It was not immediately clear when the installation of between 20 and 50 solar panels will be complete, or which company was supplying them. Or how much of the historic building’s power usage will be covered by the sun. Administration officials had estimated the PV system would generate 19,700kWh of electricity a year.
Former President Jimmy Carter installed 32 solar panels in the late 1970s amid surging oil prices resulting from the Iranian revolution and his own decision to embargo oil imports from Iran.
