Teng Ming from Port Monmouth, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since September of 2022. The array was completed on 15 November: 31 panels making 11.32 kW into a SolarEdge HD Wave inverter with optimizers, and an estimated 12,027 kilowatt hours in the first year. JCP&L interconnected it three weeks later. Port Monmouth sits on Raritan Bay, low and exposed, and a structural design was carried out as part of the permit process – a roof taking an array of this size in a coastal wind zone has to be shown to carry the load, not assumed to. The existing roof was sound enough to take the panels as it stood.
Project Facts
- Location
- Port Monmouth, NJ
- Service
- Solar Panel Installation
- Client since
- September 2022
- Panels
- REC Model # REC-365NP2-Black
- Panels
- 31
- System size
- 11.32 kW
- Inverter
- SolarEdge SE10000H-US000NNC2 HD Wave
- Mounting system
- Snap-N-Rack
- Estimated first-year production
- 12,027 kWh
- Share of the home's electricity
- 90%
- Electric utility
- JCP&L
Solar questions from Port Monmouth homeowners
How much does shade from mature Port Monmouth trees affect production?
Shade can materially reduce production, particularly when it falls during the highest-production hours. Module-level electronics such as microinverters and optimizers reduce the effect of partial shading, but they cannot create sunlight where there is none. Significant shade should be modelled before any annual production figure is quoted.
Which electrical code applies to a solar installation?
New Jersey currently adopts the 2023 National Electrical Code. The articles that matter for solar are 690 for photovoltaic systems, 705 for sources interconnected with the grid, 706 where there is battery storage, and 750 for energy management systems where applicable.
Why is annual offset the number that matters?
Because the value of net metering is strongest where solar production offsets electricity the household would otherwise have bought. Producing substantially more than a year's consumption means the surplus is ultimately treated differently from the credit that offsets consumption.