Putting the lights up is the easy part. Keeping them lit through December, getting them down in January and finding somewhere to store them until next year is why most people stop doing it themselves. These are New Jersey homes we lit, with what went up and where. A short list, and a seasonal one — it grows every winter.

Generator Service and Holiday Lighting in Marlboro, NJ | A 24 kW Takeover and a Lit Roofline

Mark from Marlboro, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since June of 2021, when the servicing of a generator installed by another company came to us. Four years later the household added something entirely unrelated to it. A 24 kW Generac taken on at three weeks old: The machine is a 24 kW Generac on natural gas, behind a managed whole-house transfer switch, and it was barely commissioned when its servicing moved to us in June of 2021. That is an unusual moment to take a generator on, and a revealing one: most takeovers happen at five […]

Standby Generator Installation and Holiday Lighting in Cream Ridge, NJ | 20 kW Generac

Adam from Cream Ridge, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since June of 2020, and came back for holiday lighting five years later. A 20 kW Generac on twin 200-amp switches: Commissioned on 25 September 2020. The calculation asked for a minimum of 17 kW under NEC Article 220 Part IV and a Generac rated 18 kW on natural gas went in – 20 kW were it running on propane – feeding two 200-amp service-rated transfer switches which between them cover a 400-amp service. Two switches rather than one is simply what 400 amps requires: there is

Standby Generator Service and Holiday Lighting in Lincroft, NJ | Servicing and Holiday Lights

Jared from Lincroft, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since April of 2024, when the servicing of a generator installed by another company came to us. A 22 kW Generac on a 150-amp service: The machine is a 22 kW Generac on natural gas, commissioned in December of 2021 by another company, behind a managed whole-house transfer switch on a 150-amp service. Its servicing moved to us just over two years later. That is early for a takeover and it is the best moment for one: nothing has been neglected yet, the machine is still well inside

Standby Generator, Soft Washing and Holiday Lighting in Leonardo, NJ | Holiday Lights and Soft Washing

Nelson from Leonardo, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since February of 2022, and has come back twice since – once for the roofline and once for the siding. A 19.5 kW Generac on a managed whole-house switch: Commissioned on 14 July 2022. The load calculation asked for a minimum of 15 kW under NEC Article 220 Part IV, and a Generac Guardian rated 19.5 kW on natural gas went in – 22 kW were it running on propane – behind a 200-amp managed whole-house transfer switch with two smart management modules and whole-house surge protection. The

Standby Generator Service and Holiday Lighting in Lincroft, NJ | The Lights Came First

Steve from Lincroft, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since November of 2024, and the lights came before the generator – the reverse of the usual order on these pages. 114 bulbs, and five feet of them new: November of 2024. A hundred and fourteen C9 bulbs along the roofline, the household’s own set rather than a new one, put up for the season and taken down after it. Two details from the work order say more about the job than the count does. Five feet of additional lights were added along the lower roof, matched as

Standby Generator Service and Holiday Lighting in Colts Neck, NJ | 310 Bulbs and a 24 kW Generator

Joellen from Colts Neck, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since November of 2024. The lights came first; the generator’s servicing followed a year and a half later. 310 red and white C9 bulbs: Up in early December of 2024 and down again after the season. Three hundred and ten C9 bulbs in red and white along the roofline – C9 being the large traditional bulb rather than the small modern one, and two colors rather than one, which needs a clean uninterrupted run of eave to read as deliberate instead of busy. The take-down is the

Standby Generator Installation and Holiday Lighting in Middletown, NJ | 20 kW Whole-House Backup and Holiday Lighting

John from Middletown, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since August of 2020, and came back three and a half years later for something with no electrical connection to the first job whatever. A 20 kW Generac on a whole-house switch: Commissioned on 23 April 2021. The calculation asked for a minimum of 14 kW under NEC Article 220 Part IV and a Generac rated 18 kW on natural gas went in – 20 kW on propane – behind a 200-amp service-rated managed whole-house transfer switch mounted outdoors beside the meter, with a smart management module. The

Solar, Generator, EV Charger and Holiday Lighting in Red Bank, NJ | Four Trades

Susan and Christopher from Red Bank, NJ have been Green Sun Energy Services clients since October of 2018. Christopher is a partner in the business, which is worth saying plainly rather than leaving a reader to find out – and it is also why this house has had four trades through it over six years, each one going onto the same 200-amp service as the last. 37 panels and 9.62 kW: The array went up first and was producing by 4 February 2019: 37 Canadian Solar modules split across two roof planes, 5.72 kW on one and 3.90 kW on

Generator and Holiday Lighting in Lincroft, NJ | Ten Years Between Visits

Anna from Lincroft, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since August of 2014, and ten years passed between the two jobs on this page. A 16 kW Generac in a steel enclosure: Commissioned on 7 October 2014. A 16 kW Generac on natural gas in a steel enclosure on its own pad, behind a 200-amp service-rated managed whole-house transfer switch. The house is 2,700 square feet, and the load survey has two entries that matter more than the square footage does: a double electric oven and two sump pumps. They pull in opposite directions, which is what