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.

37-panel 9.07 kW solar array in Farmingdale, NJ

Standby Generator Installation and Solar Panel Installation in Farmingdale, NJ | In 2012 and a Generator in 2013

Lon in Farmingdale has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since July of 2012. The array came first and the standby generator followed the next summer. 37 panels in November 2012: Thirty-seven Canadian Solar 245-watt panels, 9.07 kW in total, on Zep Solar mounting with an Enphase M215 microinverter behind each one and a GE production meter. Estimated first-year production is 10,136 kWh and the utility is JCP&L. It was commissioned on 25 November 2012. The panel rating is worth pausing on. Thirty-seven panels to reach nine kilowatts is what 2012 looked like; a 245-watt module was a perfectly

28-panel 9.38 kW solar array in Little Egg Harbor, NJ

Solar Panel Installation in Little Egg Harbor, NJ | 28 Panels and 9.38 kW

Mary from Little Egg Harbor, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since April of 2019. The array was completed on 31 May: 28 panels making 9.38 kW into a SolarEdge HD Wave inverter with optimizers, 90 feet of critter guard around the perimeter, and an estimated 12,000 kilowatt hours in the first year. Atlantic City Electric interconnected it in August. A structural design was carried out as part of the permit process, which is worth doing properly on a barrier-island street: a roof taking an array of this size in a coastal wind zone has to be

24-panel 5.64 kW solar array in Middletown, NJ

Solar Panel Installation in Middletown, NJ | 24 Panels Producing Since 2011

Michael from Middletown, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since July of 2011, which makes this the oldest relationship on the site. The array was completed that August: 24 panels making 5.64 kW, each with its own Enphase M215 microinverter, and an estimated 4,880 kilowatt hours in the first year. JCP&L interconnected it in December. Fifteen years is long enough to stop arguing about whether the design works and simply look at what happened: with a microinverter under every panel, nothing that has befallen any one panel in fifteen years has taken the rest of the array

27-panel 8.51 kW solar array in Asbury Park, NJ

Solar, a Generator and Soft Washing in Asbury Park

Dimitra from Asbury Park, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since September of 2016, and has come back twice since. The generator and the array were booked on the same day and finished within a week of each other. The soft wash came nine years later. A 16 kW Generac in a steel enclosure: Commissioned on 5 November 2016. The load calculation asked for a minimum of 12 kW under NEC Article 220 Part IV and a 16 kW machine went in, on a 200-amp managed whole-house transfer switch. The house is 2,400 square feet with a

36-panel 12.24 kW solar array in East Windsor, NJ

A New Roof and 36 Panels in East Windsor, NJ

Scott Kahrs has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since July of 2020, when the roof and the solar array were bought on the same day. The roof was finished on 19 September 2020 and the array a month later. 3,500 square feet, stripped to the deck: A single layer of old shingles came off to the sheathing and left with the dumpster. Deck protection went over the exposed sheathing, then a GAF Timberline HDZ system in Charcoal carrying a 50-year warranty, aluminum drip edge along 368 feet of rakes, eaves and valleys, and a ridge vent along the

28-panel 8.54 kW solar array in Aberdeen, NJ

Solar Panel Installation in Aberdeen, NJ | 28 Panels Producing Since 2015

Leonid from Aberdeen, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since October of 2015. The array was completed that December: 28 panels making 8.54 kW, each with its own Enphase microinverter, and an estimated 11,304 kilowatt hours in the first year. JCP&L interconnected it in January. Eleven years is long enough for the design decision to have been tested rather than argued: with a microinverter under every panel, a shaded or failing module affects only itself, and the array has degraded one panel at a time rather than as a single system. The roof was stripped and replaced

27-panel 7.02 kW solar array in Howell, NJ

Solar Panel Installation in Howell, NJ | 27 Panels Producing Since 2016

Jeffrey from Howell, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since December of 2015. The array was completed in February of 2016: 27 panels making 7.02 kW, each with its own Enphase microinverter, and an estimated 9,077 kilowatt hours in the first year. JCP&L interconnected it that May. Ten years is long enough to say something useful about the design rather than the promise: with a microinverter under every panel, nothing that has happened to one panel in a decade has taken the rest of the array down with it, and a system built this way degrades one

16-panel 6.48 kW solar array in Keyport, NJ

Solar Panel Installation in Keyport, NJ | 16 Panels and 107 Feet of Critter Guard

Joe from Keyport, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since December of 2023. The array was completed in March of 2024: 16 panels making 6.48 kW into a SolarEdge HD Wave inverter with optimizers, and an estimated 8,330 kilowatt hours in the first year. JCP&L interconnected it in May. 107 feet of critter guard went around the perimeter, which matters more on a smaller array than people expect – squirrels and birds nest in the gap between panels and roof, and the damage they do to wiring is not visible from the ground until production drops. The

29-panel 11.6 kW solar array in Holmdel, NJ

Standby Generator Installation and Solar Panel Installation in Holmdel, NJ | That Steps Aside

Shince in Holmdel has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since December of 2022. The standby generator was commissioned on 16 March 2023 and the solar array five days later. A 22 kW machine, three modules: The house is 3,000 square feet on a 200-amp service and its electrical calculation comes to 25,456 watts. Air conditioning is 6,000 of that. An electric vehicle charger accounts for a large part of the rest, and it is the load that makes this installation worth describing. The machine is a Generac Guardian 22 kW, model 7042-2, delivering 19.5 kW on natural gas,

21-panel 5.15 kW solar array in Farmingdale, NJ

Solar Panel Installation in Farmingdale, NJ | A Leased 5.1 kW Array Running Since 2013

John and Lila from Farmingdale, NJ have been Green Sun Energy Services clients since January of 2013, which puts this among the oldest projects on the site. The array was completed that May: 21 panels making 5.1 kW, each with its own Enphase microinverter, and an estimated 6,696 kilowatt hours in the first year. JCP&L interconnected it in June. The array is leased rather than owned. Thirteen years is a real test rather than a claim about one, and the microinverter design is the part that has aged best – each panel still converts on its own, so nothing that

Standby Generator Service and Solar Panel Installation in Hazlet, NJ | Overhead Lines, 27 Panels and a Takeover

Megan in Hazlet has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since August of 2017. The array went up that October and the generator already on the property came onto our books that December. 27 panels in October 2017: Twenty-seven Trina 285-watt panels, 7.7 kW in total, on Ecolibrium mounting with a SolarEdge SE7600A inverter and a P320 optimizer on every panel. Estimated first-year production is 9,218 kWh and the utility is JCP&L. It was commissioned on 12 October 2017. A 14 kW machine taken on that December: The standby generator here was installed by another company — a Generac

25-panel 7.5 kW solar array in Manasquan, NJ

Solar, Roofing and Standby Generator Installation in Manasquan, NJ | Three Projects Inside Six Weeks

Robert and Sharon from Manasquan, NJ have been Green Sun Energy Services clients since October of 2014, and took on three projects inside six weeks the following spring – roof, generator and array, in that order. A new roof in oyster gray: Finished on 18 March 2015: a single layer of shingles stripped to the sheathing and carted away rather than roofed over, then new composition shingle in oyster gray, warranted fifty years. The survey done for the array is what turned the roof into the first job rather than a later one: it found the existing roof due for