Solar Critter Guard

Genare from Jamesburg, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since April of 2023. The array is 10.53 kW – 26 REC 405-watt panels on a Snap-N-Rack mounting system – and it was finished in July of 2023. First-year production was estimated at 13,111 kWh. The job took in 140 feet of critter guard around the perimeter, which is the mesh that closes the gap between the panels and the roof before anything decides to nest in it.

Turner from Middletown, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since June of 2025. Nineteen Jinko 425-watt panels went up that August – 8.075 kW in all, estimated at 9,397 kWh in the first year – on an IronRidge rail system. The array also carries 180 linear feet of critter guard around its perimeter. That is the mesh that closes the gap between the panels and the roof, which is otherwise where squirrels and nesting birds get in and start on the wiring.

David from Red Bank, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since March of 2025. The array was completed in May: 34 panels making 15.64 kW, each with its own Enphase IQ8 microinverter, 216 feet of critter guard around the perimeter, and an estimated 19,270 kilowatt hours in the first year. JCP&L interconnected it in June. At over fifteen kilowatts this is among the largest residential arrays on the site, and 216 feet of guard is what a roof line of that size costs – the gap between panels and roof is where squirrels and birds nest, and

Mike from Brick, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since March of 2025. The array was completed in April: 13 panels making 5.98 kW with Enphase IQ8X microinverters, 90 feet of critter guard around the perimeter, and an estimated 8,728 kilowatt hours in the first year. Thirteen panels producing nearly six kilowatts works out to well over 450 watts each, which is roughly double what a panel of the same physical size produced a decade ago. That is why a modest roof now supports a system that would have needed half as many panels again in 2015

Esther from Port Monmouth, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since June of 2025. The array was completed in July: 12 panels making 5.52 kW, each with its own Enphase IQ8X microinverter carrying a 25-year warranty, and an estimated 7,056 kilowatt hours in the first year. JCP&L interconnected the system in August. Eighty feet of critter guard went on with it, which this close to the bay is not a refinement – the sheltered gap under an array is exactly what gulls and squirrels look for along the shoreline. The existing roof was sound enough to build

Brandon from Hamilton, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since August of 2025. The array was completed in October of that year: 18 panels making 7.74 kW, each with its own Enphase IQ8 microinverter carrying a 25-year warranty, and an estimated 8,765 kilowatt hours in the first year. PSEG interconnected the system in November. The array also carries 200 feet of critter guard around its perimeter, fitted at install time rather than added later – the gap beneath the panels is sheltered and dry, and closing it while the array is already open costs a fraction of