No two roofs are the same. The pitch, the shade from the tree next door, the direction the house faces and what the family actually uses through the year all change what belongs up there. These are solar arrays we designed and installed across New Jersey, and each one names the panels, the inverter and the size of the system along with the town it is in. Real jobs on real houses, photographed where we had the chance.
321 completed solar projects across 139 New Jersey towns, including 76 with a review written by the customer.
John and Alanna from Keyport, NJ have been Green Sun Energy Services clients since October of 2016. Seventeen LG 300-watt panels went on the roof that January – 5.1 kW in all, estimated at 6,497 kWh in the first year – on a QuickMount rail-free system. Seventeen panels is a modest array, and the all-black modules on a low-profile mount are the reason it is hard to pick out from the street at all.
Rebecca from Manasquan, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since September of 2025. Thirty-five Hyundai 440-watt panels went on the roof that October – 15.4 kW in all, estimated at 19,013 kWh in the first year – on a Unirac rail system. Four hundred and forty watts a panel is what a decade of improvement looks like: the roof area that carried 235-watt modules in 2012 now carries nearly twice the output, which is why a large system no longer has to mean a large roof.
Marilyn from Monroe Township, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since April of 2022. Sixty-two Hanwha Q.PEAK DUO 360-watt panels went on the roof that June – 22.32 kW in all, estimated at 24,321 kWh in the first year. Sixty-two panels is a large residential array, and it is all-black hardware on a Snap-N-Rack rail-free system, so it sits as one dark plane on the roof rather than sixty-two separate objects catching the light differently.
Stas from Jackson, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since October of 2019. Thirty-six Hanwha Q.PEAK DUO 325-watt panels went on the roof that December – 11.7 kW in all, estimated at 13,028 kWh in the first year – on an Ecolibrium rail-free system, with 120 linear feet of critter guard closed around the perimeter. The guard is the part people skip and regret: the gap between panel and roof is exactly the shelter a squirrel is looking for, and the wiring is what gets chewed.
Rob from Brick, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since March of 2022. Twenty-one Hanwha Q.PEAK DUO 360-watt panels went on the roof that June – 7.56 kW in all, estimated at 8,604 kWh in the first year – on a Snap-N-Rack rail-free system. These are the all-black modules, black frame and black backsheet, and at twenty-one panels the array reads as one dark rectangle of roof rather than a grid of silver lines.
Regency at Manalapan Homeowners Association in Manalapan, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since May of 2023. Twelve Hanwha Q.PEAK DUO 400-watt panels went up in January of 2024 – 4.8 kW in all, estimated at 6,252 kWh in the first year – on a Snap-N-Rack rail-free system. A community building is a good candidate for a small array: the load is steady and daytime, which is exactly when the panels are producing, so most of what the array makes is used on site rather than exported.
Walter and Cynthia from Robbinsville, NJ have been Green Sun Energy Services clients since May of 2015. Forty Trina 260-watt panels went up that November – 10.4 kW in all, estimated at 12,978 kWh in the first year. The mounting is the unusual part: an S-5! system, the clamp hardware made for standing-seam metal roofs. It grips the raised seam itself, so the array is fixed to the roof without a single hole drilled through it – and a metal roof that is never penetrated is a roof with nothing to leak around.
Quality of Life Chiropractic Center in Eatontown, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since August of 2023. The roof and the array were bought together in August and installed nine days apart that November. 4,600 square feet of new roof: The old covering came off in a single layer on 19 November 2023 – stripped back to the deck rather than shingled over – and went back on as a GAF Timberline Lifetime system. There are 385 linear feet of rakes, eaves and valleys on the building, and edges are where a roof of this size starts
Walter and Barbara from Bayville, NJ have been Green Sun Energy Services clients since September of 2019. Twenty-nine LG 335-watt panels went on the roof that December – 9.715 kW in all, estimated at 12,710 kWh in the first year – on a Unirac rail-free mounting system, with 152 linear feet of critter guard closed around the edge of the array. Rail-free keeps the panels low to the roof plane, and the guard shuts the gap underneath before anything decides to nest in it.
Daniel from Helmetta, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since September of 2021. The roof and the array were bought together, in one conversation, and went on five days apart the following January. 4,100 square feet of new roof: The old covering came off in a single layer on 6 January 2022 – stripped back to the deck rather than shingled over – and went back on as a GAF Timberline Lifetime system. There are 454 linear feet of rakes, eaves and valleys on this house, which is a great deal of edge for the size, and
Cid from Union Beach, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since September of 2016. Twenty-five Hyundai 280-watt panels went up that November – 7 kW in all, estimated at 7,991 kWh in the first year – on a QuickMount rail-free system. Rail-free fastens each panel close to the roof plane instead of raising it onto a run of rails: a lower profile, fewer components on the roof, and less exposed hardware to weather, which counts for more in a bayfront town than it does inland.
Charlie and Alise from Port Monmouth, NJ have been Green Sun Energy Services clients since April of 2015. Twenty-four LG 300-watt panels went on the roof that June – 7.2 kW in all, estimated at 9,375 kWh in the first year. The array sits on a QuickMount rail-free system, which fastens each panel close to the roof plane instead of lifting it onto rails: fewer roof penetrations, a lower profile from the street, and less exposed hardware to weather in a coastal town.
