The Pentagon, the largest administrative building in the world, will soon be equipped with solar panels, the US Department of Energy announced on Wednesday.
“Rooftop solar panels, a heat recovery system, and solar thermal panels” will be installed in the imposing Department of Defense building in suburban Washington “to reduce dependence on natural gas systems and to fossil fuels,” detailed the Ministry of Energy in a press release.
This work is part of the policy of reducing energy consumption of federal infrastructure, supported by the Biden administration.
The Pentagon is one of 31 federal sites, including buildings of the American departments of Commerce, Defense, Interior and Transportation, which will be the subject of energy work, the press release indicates.
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks stressed that the Pentagon was working to make its “installations more resilient, better secure (its) critical infrastructure, and save money – which benefits warfighters and the taxpayer.”
Located in Arlington near Washington, the US Defense Headquarters is one of the most iconic buildings in the world.
With 28 km of corridors, more than 7,700 windows and nearly 604,000 m2 of premises, the pentagon-shaped building was the largest office building in the world for 80 years, before being dethroned in 2023 by the diamond exchange in Surat, in the Indian state of Gujarat.
