Jimmy Carter Solar Panels

The project located on the carter family farm covers 10 acres and is projected to produce more than 55 million kilowatt hours of energy in the next 25 years.

Jimmy carter solar panels.

The solar panels 3 852 of them shimmered above 10 acres of jimmy carter s soil where peanuts and soybeans used to grow. Energy crisis then president jimmy carter addressed the nation as he installed 32 solar panels designed to use the sun s energy to. In 1979 in the throes of the u s. The democratic president called for a campaign to conservative energy and to set an example to the american people ordered the solar panels erected in 1979 according to the white house historical.

More than a dozen carter solar panels now remain over unity s cafeteria all of them defunct. On former president jimmy carter s farmland where nut and soybean crops once stretched as far as the eye could see there are now 3 852 solar panels providing clean energy for much of plains. In 2006 one panel made it down to the carter library in atlanta delivered there fittingly by two students in a vegetable oil powered vehicle. The 3 852 solar panels will provide more than half of the power needs for the residents of the tiny town of plains population 683.

The panels moved almost imperceptibly with the sun. Where jimmy carter used to grow crops 3 852 solar panels now stand to capture the georgia sunlight providing more than 50 percent of plains energy.