What is the Million Solar Roofs Initiative?
Million Solar Roofs is a federal initiative to install solar energy systems on one million U.S. buildings by 2010. President Clinton announced the initiative on June 26, 1997 in a speech before the United Nations Session on Environment and Development. The initiative includes two types of solar technology: photovoltaics that produce electricity from sunlight and solar thermal panels that produce heat for domestic hot water, space heating, or heating swimming pools.