Christopher from Ship Bottom, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since June of 2022. Twenty-three REC panels went up on Snap-N-Rack mounting that September, 9.315 kW in total, with a first-year production estimate of 12,431 kWh. A SolarEdge battery followed in November of 2023, and that second visit is what turns a grid-tied array into something useful in an outage: on its own an array shuts down when the utility does, for the safety of anyone working on the line, and the battery is what lets the house go on drawing from its own roof. On a barrier island that is the difference between a storm being an inconvenience and a week without a refrigerator.
Project Facts
- Location
- Ship Bottom, NJ
- Service
- Solar Panel Installation
- Client since
- June 2022
- Panels
- REC Model # REC405AA-PURE
- Panels
- 23
- System size
- 9.32 kW
- Inverter
- SolarEdge SE7600H-USNBBL14 HD Wave Energy Hub
- Mounting system
- Snap-N-Rack
- Estimated first-year production
- 12,431 kWh
- Share of the home's electricity
- 89%
- Electric utility
- Atlantic City Electric
Solar questions from Ship Bottom homeowners
Which utility handles interconnection in Ship Bottom?
The electric distribution company that serves the property. In New Jersey that is Jersey Central Power & Light, PSE&G, Atlantic City Electric or Rockland Electric depending on the address, and municipal electric systems can have their own requirements.
What is a microinverter and why use one per panel?
A microinverter is a small inverter installed at or near an individual module, so each panel converts on its own channel. That gives module-level visibility and limits the effect one underperforming panel has on the others around it.
What is an SREC-II?
A New Jersey solar renewable-energy certificate created for qualifying projects under the Successor Solar Incentive programme. A qualifying system earns one SREC-II for each megawatt-hour -- a thousand kilowatt-hours -- of eligible solar electricity it generates.