White House Misses Their Own Solar Installation Deadline

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Today is the first day of summer: the longest day of the year and music to school children's ears. It also marks the day that President Obama promised that the White House would have their rooftop solar panel and water heater installation completed. It's still the longest day of the year, but there are still no solar panels on the White House roof.

The U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu promised last October to have the installation up by the end of spring. Breaking that particular promise certainly isn't the worst crime a president and administration have ever committed, but it has made environmental advocacy groups feel severely agitated and let down. "We took [Chu's 2010 speech] as a great victory and thanked the White House for doing the right thing for the right reasons. It's not anywhere near as important as passing legislation or anything, but it's not completely insignificant. It didn't our to us that they might not actually keep their promise," asserted the founder of 350.org, Bill McKibben. 350.org is the grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis who started the Put Solar On It campaign, telling world leaders to to power their government offices with solar electricity san diego.

Admitting to the delay, the Department of Energy wrote a blog post about it yesterday evening. It stated that the White House project was just a small part of the much larger SunShot initiative, a program to greatly reduce the total installed cost of solar energy systems by 2020. The post was written by Ramamoorthy Ramesh, the Director of the SunShot Initiative and Solar Energy Technologies Program. The end of the post stated, "Solar energy holds massive potential to help the United States win the future. And the Obama Administration is committed to helping advance the solar industry as an important part of its broad clean energy portfolio."