In the summer of 1979, President Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed on the roof of the White House West Wing. The gesture was symbolic. Carter and his advisers knew that investing in renewable energy was one way to shield consumers from inflation. Wind and sunlight, unlike oil and gas, are free (though the power plants that use them are be expensive to build), and not subject to geopolitics fluctuations.
What ever happened to those White House solar panels? Carter lost the 1979 presidential election in a landslide and his successor, President Ronald Reagan, had them removed in 1986. One panel is now preserved in the National Museum of American History