Alex Belenkiy has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since September of 2017, when we installed a 36-panel array. In August of 2026 he came back for a new roof, with the same array to be taken down and reinstalled on new mounting once the shingles are on.
36 panels and 10.8 kW, in 2017
Thirty-six Hanwha Q.PEAK panels at 300 watts each came to 10.8 kW on rail-free mounting, finished on 21 October 2017, each with its own Enphase IQ6 microinverter rather than a shared central inverter. JCP&L is the utility.
An array facing due east
The panels sit on a single face at a 22-degree pitch, pointing at an azimuth of 90 degrees — due east, not south. The design models it at about 77 percent of the reference case. An east-facing array does its work in the morning and is finished well before the afternoon, which suits a household that is up and using electricity early and is a poor match for one that is out until six. Thirty-six panels is a large array for a house of this size, and the size is doing what the aspect cannot.
What is booked for 2026
Two layers of old shingle are to come off 3,300 square feet down to the sheathing, with a GAF Timberline HDZ system in Hickory going back on under a 50-year warranty, aluminum drip edge along 330 feet of rakes, eaves and valleys, and a ridge vent along the peak. The array comes down first and goes back on a new IronRidge mounting system rather than the mounts it has been sitting on since 2017.
Why the mounting is being replaced, not reused
A reset can put the original mounting back, and often does. Here it will not. The mounts that come off will have spent nine winters on that roof holding thirty-six panels. Reusing them would mean a new roof with old hardware bolted through fresh shingles, which is the one economy on a job like this that undoes the reason for doing it. New mounting and new flashing at every fixing is more work, and it is the difference between a roof that is new and a roof that is merely re-covered.
Why an array comes off for a roof at all
An array is fastened down for twenty-five years and more, and this one has been up since 2017 with years left in it. The roof beneath it has not lasted as well. That is the situation this job exists for: the panels are worth keeping, the shingles are not, and the only way to deal with the second without wasting the first is down, roof, new mounts, back up.
Storm damage, a new roof, and the array back up
A storm in July 2026 damaged the existing roof badly enough to require a full replacement, which in turn required the 36-panel array to come down before any roofing work could begin. Two layers of old shingles came off 3,300 square feet of deck, down to the sheathing. A GAF Timberline HDZ system in Hickory went back on, with aluminum drip edge along the rakes and eaves, ice shield at the eaves and in the valleys, and a ridge vent running the peak. An attic fan was decommissioned at the same time, with ridge vents taking over its function, and a length of J-channel was installed along the fascia.
Once the new roof was on, the array went back — all 36 panels — but not onto the hardware that came off. Mounting that had held those panels through nine winters was not going back through fresh shingles and new flashing. The reinstallation used an entirely new IronRidge rail-based mounting system in place of the original rail-free Ecolibrium mounts, with new flashing at every fixing point. The panels themselves and their microinverters were retained; everything connecting them to the roof was replaced.
The sequencing mattered as much as the materials. Panels off, storm-damaged roof torn out, new GAF system installed, new mounting set, panels back up. Each step depends on the one before it, and the result is a roof and an array that are both new where they meet.
Project Facts
- Location
- Marlboro, NJ
- Services
- Roofing Installation, Solar Panel Installation, Solar Removal/Replacement
- Client since
- September 2017
Solar
- Panels
- Hanwha Model # Q.PEAK BFR-G4.300/32mm
- Panels
- 36
- System size
- 10.80 kW
- Inverter
- Micro-Single
- Mounting system
- Ecolibrium Solar
- Estimated first-year production
- 10,622 kWh
- Share of the home's electricity
- 99%
- Electric utility
- JCP&L
Roof
- System
- GAF Timberline Lifetime Roofing System
- Area replaced
- 3,300 sq ft
- Warranty
- 50 years
Great company to deal with. Very punctual and professional. Will recommend to everyone.
Green Sun Energy Services replied
Thank you, Alex. The 36-panel array in Marlboro has been generating since 2017, and with a new roof now booked the two jobs have to be sequenced properly: panels off, roof on, panels back. Punctual and professional is easier to promise than to deliver on a project with that many moving parts.
Questions from Marlboro homeowners
SolarHow is the number of panels for a Marlboro house decided?
It starts with the home's actual electricity use, then with how much usable roof or ground area there is. A proper design looks at twelve months of consumption, expected future use, roof orientation, shading, roof dimensions, code-required setbacks, module wattage and the limits the utility places on interconnection.
RoofingCan a roof warranty transfer to a new owner?
Certain warranties can, subject to that warranty's own conditions and a required notification procedure with its own time limit. It is worth knowing the process before the house goes on the market rather than during the sale, and a transferable warranty is a genuine selling point.
RoofingHow long does a roof replacement take?
Many residential roofs are completed in a day or two, though larger or more complicated ones take longer. Weather, decking repairs and the complexity of the roof all move the schedule, and a professional contractor watches the forecast and protects exposed areas rather than leaving a deck open to rain.