When the power goes out, a standby generator starts on its own. It is wired into the house and runs on natural gas or propane, so there is nothing to drag out of the garage and nothing to fill in the dark. Below are standby generators we have installed at homes across New Jersey. Each one shows the unit that went in, the transfer switch behind it and the town it is in, and where the homeowner left a review you will find that too. If you are trying to work out what size you need, this is a good place to start.
621 completed standby generator projects across 123 New Jersey towns, including 123 with a review written by the customer.
Louise from Farmingdale, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since January of 2013. She signed in the first week of January and the generator was commissioned at the end of May, a 14 kW Generac behind a service-rated automatic transfer switch. It covers 2,100 square feet with a refrigerator, a dishwasher, an electric oven and the laundry, none of it prioritised or shed. Farmingdale is in Monmouth County.
Donna in Farmingdale has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since December of 2012. The standby generator went in the following June and we washed the house in April 2025. Twelve circuits and a 50-amp switch: This is a modest installation, and it is worth writing up precisely because it is modest. Not every house needs a machine that could run a restaurant. It is a 1,000 square foot house on a 150-amp service, and almost everything with a real appetite for power runs on gas: the furnace, the clothes dryer, the range and the hot water. What is
Daniel from Farmingdale, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since December of 2012. He signed between Christmas and New Year and the generator was commissioned in the middle of May, a 17 kW Generac behind a service-rated automatic transfer switch. The house is 1,600 square feet but carries two electric ovens, and a pair of those draws more than most people expect, which is why the machine is rated well above what the floor area alone would suggest. Farmingdale is in Monmouth County.
Tom from Farmingdale, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since December of 2012. He signed between Christmas and New Year and the generator was commissioned at the end of May, a 17 kW Generac behind a service-rated automatic transfer switch. At 1,800 square feet with an electric oven, a dishwasher, a washer and a gas dryer, the house is comfortably inside what that machine carries with nothing switched off. A PowerBase plan has kept it serviced in the years since. Farmingdale is in Monmouth County.
Carl from Freehold, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since December of 2012. He signed the week before Christmas and the generator was commissioned at the end of April, a 14 kW Generac behind a service-rated automatic transfer switch, sized for 1,500 square feet with a refrigerator, a dishwasher, an electric oven and the laundry. A PowerBase plan has covered the annual service every year since. Freehold is in Monmouth County.
Grace from Farmingdale, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since December of 2012. She signed a week before Christmas and the generator was commissioned at the end of April, a 17 kW Generac behind a service-rated automatic transfer switch. It covers 2,240 square feet with two electric ovens, a freezer, a refrigerator, a dishwasher and the laundry. It has been on a PowerBase plan every year since, which is why a thirteen year old machine is still worth what it cost. Farmingdale is in Monmouth County.
Joseph from Farmingdale, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since December of 2012. He signed in the middle of December and the generator was commissioned in late May, a 20 kW Generac behind a 200-amp service-rated transfer switch. At 3,000 square feet with two refrigerators, a freezer and two electric ovens, this is the heaviest load on the street, and 20 kW is what carries it with nothing switched off. Farmingdale is in Monmouth County.
Doug from Farmingdale, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since January of 2013. He and Diane signed in the first week of January and the generator was commissioned at the end of June, close to six months later, which is what the queue looked like across New Jersey that year. Theirs is an 8 kW Generac in a steel enclosure, specified for 500 square feet and two refrigerators. Farmingdale is in Monmouth County.
Mary from Farmingdale, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since January of 2013. She signed at the end of January and the generator was commissioned in late May, a 14 kW Generac behind a service-rated automatic transfer switch. The load survey mattered here: 2,100 square feet with two refrigerators, a freezer, an electric oven and the laundry, which is more cold storage than most houses carry and the reason the sizing went where it did. Farmingdale is in Monmouth County.
Alan and Marcy in Hillsborough have been Green Sun Energy Services clients since March of 2013. The standby generator was commissioned that June and the solar array the following May. A 17 kW machine in June 2013: The machine is a Generac 17 kW, model 6053-0, delivering 16 kW on natural gas, which is what this 3,000 square foot house runs on, behind a service-rated transfer switch. What makes it worth writing up is what sits alongside it: four digital load managers. In 2013 that was an unusual amount of load management on a residential installation, and it is the
John from Farmingdale, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since December of 2012. He and Carol signed in early December and the generator was commissioned in the middle of May, a 20 kW Generac behind a 200-amp service-rated transfer switch with a five year warranty. At 2,600 square feet there is no triage about which circuits matter: the refrigerator, dishwasher, oven and laundry all simply keep running. Farmingdale is in Monmouth County.
Mehmood from Manalapan, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since December of 2012. He signed in early December and the generator was commissioned in the middle of April, a 17 kW Generac behind a service-rated switch with four load management modules. The house is 4,325 square feet on a well, with a sump pump, a freezer and the laundry. On a well the calculation changes: no power means no water at all, not merely no lights. Manalapan is in Monmouth County.
