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 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.
Project Facts
- Location
- Roselle Park, NJ
- Services
- Solar Critter Guard, Solar Panel Installation
- Client since
- November 2024
- Panels
- REC Model # 460AA-PURE-RX-DC
- Panels
- 18
- System size
- 8.28 kW
- Inverter
- SolarEdge SE7600H-USNBBL14 HD Wave Energy Hub
- Mounting system
- Snap-N-Rack
- Estimated first-year production
- 8,283 kWh
- Share of the home's electricity
- 100%
- Electric utility
- PSE&G
- Critter guard fitted
- 176 ft
Solar questions from Roselle Park homeowners
Are panels designed for the wind near Roselle Park?
Yes. The array and its mounting system have to be designed to resist the applicable wind loads, and coastal and exposed locations can carry different wind-design conditions from sheltered inland ones. It is one of the reasons the mounting system and its engineering are chosen for the site rather than by habit.
Does solar eliminate the electric bill completely?
Not necessarily. Solar can offset most or all of a year's energy use, and the utility can still bill customer charges, meter charges, non-bypassable charges, taxes and any net electricity purchased. What appears on the bill depends on the utility and the tariff.
Who maintains a leased solar system?
The third-party owner generally takes on significant equipment-maintenance responsibility under a lease or power purchase agreement, but the actual obligations come from the contract. Worth checking specifically: inverter failure, panel failure, monitoring, labor, roof removal, animal damage, storm damage and production shortfalls.