Solar Critter Guard

James from Roselle Park, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since November of 2024. The array was completed on 13 January: 18 panels making 8.28 kW into a SolarEdge Energy Hub inverter – the battery-ready model – with 176 feet of critter guard around the perimeter and an estimated 8,283 kilowatt hours in the first year. A structural design was carried out as part of the permit process, so the roof was shown to carry the array rather than assumed to. PSEG interconnected it in April, three months after the panels went up – a gap that […]

Linda from River Vale, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since April of 2022. The array was completed in August: 47 panels making 16.92 kW into a SolarEdge HD Wave inverter with optimizers, 352 feet of critter guard around the perimeter, and an estimated 17,015 kilowatt hours in the first year. PSEG interconnected it in November. This is the largest residential array on the site by system size, and 352 feet is the longest run of critter guard on any of them – a roof line that takes 47 panels has a great deal of edge, and

Rakesh from West Windsor, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since March of 2022. The array was completed in June: 32 panels making 11.52 kW into a SolarEdge HD Wave inverter with optimizers, 212 feet of critter guard around the perimeter, and an estimated 13,938 kilowatt hours in the first year. PSEG interconnected it in December, six months after the panels went up – a gap that is entirely the utility’s timetable rather than anybody else’s, and one worth knowing about before it happens. The existing roof was sound enough to take the array as it stood.

Vijayakumar from Morganville, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since September of 2025. The array was completed in November: 24 panels making 10.56 kW, each with its own Enphase IQ8 microinverter, 188 feet of critter guard around the perimeter, and an estimated 12,231 kilowatt hours in the first year. JCP&L interconnected it at the end of December. Twenty-four panels producing over ten kilowatts works out to 440 watts each – a modern panel does roughly what two of them managed a decade ago, which is why a system this size fits comfortably on an ordinary suburban roof.

Elizabeth from North Plainfield, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since September of 2025. The array was completed on 31 October: 12 panels making 5.22 kW with Enphase IQ8 microinverters, 90 feet of critter guard, and an estimated 4,178 kilowatt hours in the first year. That production figure is the interesting one – 4,178 kilowatt hours from 5.22 kW is well below what the same array would make on an unobstructed roof, and the estimate says so honestly rather than quoting the number the panels could produce in ideal conditions. A shaded roof is where microinverters earn

Abraham from Passaic, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since August of 2022. The array was completed in November: 24 panels making 9.72 kW into a SolarEdge HD Wave inverter with optimizers, 140 feet of critter guard around the perimeter, and an estimated 10,116 kilowatt hours in the first year. PSEG interconnected it in January. Passaic is one of the most densely built cities in the state, and a roof there is usually shaded by something – the survey work is less about finding a south-facing slope than about establishing which parts of the roof are clear

Douglas from Scotch Plains, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since September of 2025. The array was completed in November: 21 panels making 9.24 kW, each with its own Enphase IQ8 microinverter, 160 feet of critter guard around the perimeter, and an estimated 10,838 kilowatt hours in the first year. PSEG interconnected it in January. Twenty-one panels producing over nine kilowatts works out to 440 watts each – a modern panel does roughly what two of them did a decade ago, which is why a system this size now fits on an ordinary suburban roof. The existing