Bernie from Middletown, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since September of 2021. The generator was commissioned in April of 2022, feeding a GenReady load center – a panel that replaces the main service panel outright rather than sitting alongside it, so the transfer switch and the breakers are one unit. The load calculation asked for 17 kW across the 2,600 square foot house, with an electric dryer and a double electric oven doing most of the work in that figure. Three conditions were agreed in advance: shelves out of the garage, the front and back walls cleared, and a shrub removed from in front of the garage. Replacing a service panel is a bigger intervention than adding a transfer switch beside one, and the electrician needs room to work on both sides of it.
Project Facts
- Location
- Middletown, NJ
- Service
- Standby Generator Installation
- Client since
- September 2021
- Manufacturer
- Generac Model # 7042-2
- Rated output
- 22 kW LP / 19.5 kW NG
- Fuel
- Natural Gas
- Electrical service
- 200 amp
- Transfer switch
- 200 amp
- Load management
- GenReady
Standby generator questions from Middletown homeowners
Does a generator in Middletown have to sit twelve inches above the flood elevation?
That figure should not be treated as a universal rule without looking at the actual property. The required elevation can depend on the flood-zone designation, the municipal freeboard, the Design Flood Elevation, Coastal A or V Zone conditions, NJDEP requirements and the applicable building-code provisions. Each flood-zone installation is worked out individually.
Can the generator stay connected during a pressure test?
The machine has to be protected from test pressures beyond what its fuel controls are built to withstand. The fuel-gas code sets out when appliances are disconnected or isolated for testing, and the plumbing contractor follows both that code and the generator's installation instructions.
Which fuel-gas code applies?
New Jersey currently adopts the 2024 International Fuel Gas Code as its Fuel Gas Subcode, which is what governs the piping, testing and shutoff arrangements on a natural-gas generator installation.