Squirrels and birds get into the gap between the panels and the roof, and most people find out the hard way: chewed wiring, staining down the shingles, or a system that has quietly stopped producing. Critter guard closes that gap with a mesh barrier clipped around the array. These are New Jersey homes where we fitted it, some on the day the panels went up and others years later, after something had already moved in.

119 completed critter guard projects across 78 New Jersey towns, including 20 with a review written by the customer.

Solar Panel Installation in Brant Beach, NJ | 176 Feet of Critter Guard on Long Beach Island

Andrew from Brant Beach, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since April of 2026. In May we fitted 176 feet of six-inch black PVC-coated critter guard around an existing solar array. Barrier island roofs are a particular case. Gulls and other shore birds are larger and more determined than the squirrels most guard is fitted against, and a nest under an array on Long Beach Island is as likely to be theirs as anything else. The mesh runs the whole perimeter, which is the only edge that matters, and it is coated black so it disappears against […]

Solar Panel Installation and Roofing Installation in South Bound Brook, NJ | 24 Panels Off, 14 New Ones On

James Sickoria has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since May of 2023, when a partial solar removal, a new roof and a new array were booked as one job. The roof was finished on 5 June 2023 and the new panels went on that July. Critter guard followed in May of 2026. Only the back of the house was touched: This is the least common shape of job on the site and the notes set it out precisely: the twenty-four panels on the back of the house came off, along with the two inverters that ran them, and

Solar Panel Installation in Ocean City, NJ | 101 Feet of Critter Guard on an Array

Bill from Ocean City, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since May of 2026. In June we fitted 101 feet of six-inch black PVC-coated critter guard around an existing solar array. Guard is almost always bought after the fact, because it is not part of a standard solar installation and most owners never hear of it until something has already moved in underneath. The gap beneath the panels is sheltered, shaded and warm, and on a barrier island it is one of the few genuinely dry places on a roof, which makes it valuable property to a

Solar Panel Installation in Manahawkin, NJ | 228 Feet of Critter Guard Around an Existing Array

Nick from Manahawkin, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since June of 2026. In July we fitted 228 feet of six-inch black PVC-coated critter guard around an existing solar array. Most solar owners never think about the gap beneath the panels until something moves into it: it is dry, shaded, warm from the array above and sheltered from anything that hunts, which makes it close to ideal for squirrels and nesting birds. Once they settle in the trouble is not only the mess, because the wiring under an array is exposed, easy to chew and awkward to

Standby Generator Service and Solar Panel Installation in Princeton, NJ | Panasonic HIT Panels and a Takeover

Alastair and Leslie in Princeton have been Green Sun Energy Services clients since August of 2019. On the same day they signed for a new solar array, they put the standby generator already on the property onto a service plan with us. 33 Panasonic panels, 10.9 kW: Thirty-three Panasonic HIT 330-watt panels, 10.89 kW in total, on Unirac mounting with a SolarEdge SE7600H HD Wave inverter and an optimizer on every panel. Estimated first-year production is 12,422 kWh and the utility is PSE&G. It was commissioned on 20 November 2019. The panel choice is the part worth explaining. HIT is

Solar Panel Installation in Hazlet, NJ | 8.04 kW LG NeON 2 Array

Jessica from Hazlet, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since July of 2019. The array was commissioned that August: 24 LG NeON 2 panels rated 335 watts each on a SolarEdge HD Wave inverter, 8.04 kW in total and designed for about 9,479 kilowatt-hours a year. It went up with 140 feet of critter guard around the perimeter. The LG panels carry a 25-year materials warranty rather than the twelve that was standard at the time, which is the part of a solar quote worth reading closely — the panels are the component expected to still be

Solar Panel Installation and Roofing Installation in Franklin Park, NJ | 36 All-Black Panels

Sherjeel Yaqoob has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since June of 2019, when the roof and the solar array were bought on the same day. The roof was finished on 7 September 2019 and the array ten days later. 3,600 square feet, stripped to the deck: A single layer of old shingles came off down to the sheathing and left with the dumpster. Deck protection went over the exposed sheathing, then a GAF Timberline HDZ system carrying a 50-year warranty, aluminum drip edge along 316 feet of rakes, eaves and valleys, and a ridge vent along the peak.

Solar Panel Installation in Kenilworth, NJ | 5.99 kW All-Black Array

David from Kenilworth, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since June of 2019. The array was commissioned that August: 19 all-black Hanwha Q.PEAK DUO panels on a SolarEdge HD Wave inverter, 5.985 kW rated and designed for about 8,486 kilowatt-hours a year. It went up with 112 feet of critter guard fitted around the perimeter, closing the sheltered gap between the panels and the roof before anything could nest in it. Nineteen panels is a compact array by our standards, sized to the roof and to what the household actually uses rather than to the largest number

Solar Panel Installation and Roofing Installation in East Brunswick, NJ | Our Own Array Off and Back On

HsiaoChung Huang has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since June of 2019, when we installed an 18-panel array. Two years later the roof underneath it reached the end of its life, so the same array came off, the roof was replaced, and the panels went back. 18 panels and 6.03 kW, in 2019: Eighteen LG 335 watt panels came to 6.03 kW on rail-free mounting, finished on 12 August 2019, running into a SolarEdge SE5000H HD Wave inverter with an optimizer on every panel. Critter guard went on at the same time — 116 feet of mesh around

Solar Panel Installation in Port Monmouth, NJ | Critter Guard on an Existing Solar Array

Sean from Port Monmouth, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since January of 2019. The solar array on the house was installed by another company, and that January we fitted black PVC-coated critter guard around it — eight-inch mesh, sized to close the gap between the panels and the roof, and the work was finished eight days after the contract was signed. That gap is the whole reason the job exists: dry, shaded and sheltered from weather and predators, it is close to ideal for squirrels and nesting birds, which chew wiring and foul the roof surface

Solar and Critter Guard in Hillsborough, NJ | 6.175 kW Panasonic Array

Francis from Hillsborough, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since May of 2019. He and Beena signed in early May and the array was producing by the twenty-second of July, 19 Panasonic 325 watt panels on a SolarEdge inverter, 6.175 kW rated and estimated at 7,802 kWh a year. The following summer we came back to fit black PVC-coated critter guard around the array, which keeps squirrels and birds out of the gap beneath the panels. Hillsborough is in Somerset County.

Solar Panel Installation in Franklin Township, NJ | 6.93 kW All-Black Array

Justin from Franklin Township, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since May of 2019. The contract was signed in the middle of May and the array was producing by the seventeenth of July — nine weeks from signature to switch-on. It is 22 all-black Hanwha Q.PEAK DUO 315-watt panels on a SolarEdge inverter, 6.93 kW rated and designed for about 7,466 kilowatt-hours a year. The panels went up with 136 feet of critter guard around them, which closes the sheltered gap underneath before birds or squirrels find it — far cheaper than clearing out a nest and