--- title: 2016 Vote: Hillary Clinton Pledges to Install 500 Million Solar Panels description: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made tackling climate change one of her key policy goals Sunday canonical: https://time.com/3972710/hillary-clinton-presidential-election-climate-change/ author: Helen Regan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-27T03:35:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:47:10.627Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Pledges Half a Billion Solar Panels og:description: She also wants every U.S. home powered by renewable energy within a decade. og:url: https://time.com/3972710/hillary-clinton-presidential-election-climate-change/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd37388d07819e63/69885c8b0b72e357866e519a/hillary-clinton-iowa.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Democratic presidential hopeful and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waits to be introduced at a house party on July 26, 2015 in Carroll, Iowa. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Pledges Half a Billion Solar Panels twitter:description: She also wants every U.S. home powered by renewable energy within a decade. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd37388d07819e63/69885c8b0b72e357866e519a/hillary-clinton-iowa.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Pledges to Install 500 Million Solar Panels if Voted President > Sponsored content. 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Scott Olson—Getty Images by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Jul 27, 2015 3:35 AM UTC Democratic presidential [candidate](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/27/us-usa-election-clinton-energy-idUSKCN0Q00X920150727) Hillary Clinton on Sunday made tackling climate change one of her key goals were she to enter the White House, pledging to have more than half a billion solar panels installed nationwide by the end of her first term in office. Clinton also called for a major increase in other renewable-energy sources, saying she wants every U.S. home to be powered by clean energy within a decade, reports Reuters. “I want more wind, more solar, more advanced biofuels, more energy efficiency,” she said at a weekend rally in Iowa. “And I’ve got to tell you, people who argue against this are just not paying attention.” The two goals were unveiled in a video posted to Clinton’s campaign website Sunday, and are part of a comprehensive agenda on climate change that will be laid out over the next few months. “We are on the cusp of a new era,” she said in the campaign video. “We can have more choice in the energy we consume and produce.” According to the former Secretary of State’s campaign, her climate-change agenda will increase output of solar energy by 700% by the end of the decade. On Monday, the presidential candidate will explain her clean energy plan in more detail at a tour of an energy-efficient transit station in Des Moines, Iowa. \[[_Reuters_](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/27/us-usa-election-clinton-energy-idUSKCN0Q00X920150727)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3972710/hillary-clinton-presidential-election-climate-change/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3972710/hillary-clinton-presidential-election-climate-change/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Pledges to Install 500 Million Solar Panels if Voted President","datePublished":"2015-07-27T03:35:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:47:10.627Z","description":"“We are on the cusp of a new era”","url":"https://time.com/3972710/hillary-clinton-presidential-election-climate-change/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election","climate change","politics","policy","Renewable energy","presidential campaign"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd37388d07819e63/69885c8b0b72e357866e519a/hillary-clinton-iowa.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Helen Regan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/helen-regan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd37388d07819e63/69885c8b0b72e357866e519a/hillary-clinton-iowa.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Democratic presidential hopeful and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waits to be introduced at a house party on July 26, 2015 in Carroll, Iowa.","caption":"Democratic presidential hopeful and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waits to be introduced at a house party on July 26, 2015 in Carroll, Iowa.","creditText":"Scott Olson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3972710/hillary-clinton-presidential-election-climate-change/","name":"Hillary Clinton Pledges to Install 500 Million Solar Panels if Voted President"}}]}] ```