Solar Panel Installation in Middletown, NJ by Green Sun Energy Services.
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 down with it. Twenty-four panels for 5.64 kW also dates the system precisely – a panel of that era made around 235 watts where the same physical size now makes over 450.
Project Facts
- Location
- Middletown, NJ
- Service
- Solar Panel Installation
- Client since
- July 2011
- Panels
- Canadian Solar Model # CS6P-235PX
- Panels
- 24
- System size
- 5.64 kW
- Inverter
- EnPhase M215-60-2LL-S22/S23 Micro-Single
- Mounting system
- Zep Solar
- Estimated first-year production
- 4,880 kWh
- Electric utility
- JCP&L
"You have to go solar and use Green Sun to do it! They were amazing from start to finish. Glen and Chris made sure we understood everything every step of the way. The installers were great as well. They treated our house like it was their own. We are enjoying watching our meter spin backwards!" - Eileen B. from Middletown, NJ. Solar Panel Installation Review On Yellowpages
Green Sun Energy Services replied
Thank you, Michael. Twenty-four panels have been producing on your roof in Middletown since 2011, which makes yours one of the longest-running arrays we have. Understanding every step is the point of the conversations beforehand, and treating a house like your own is what we ask of every crew that works on one.
Solar questions from Middletown homeowners
Are panels designed for the wind near Middletown?
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.
Can the utility turn a solar system down?
Yes -- approval is not automatic. A system can need modification or further review because of its size, transformer limitations, the condition of the circuit, protection requirements, the service configuration or the grid's hosting capacity.
Are north-facing panels a bad idea?
They generally produce less annual energy in New Jersey than comparable south-facing panels, but they are not automatically unusable. Roof pitch, shading, the economics and the space available all matter, and a production model should show the expected output before north-facing modules go into a design.