Solar Panel Installation and EV Charger Installation in Barnegat, NJ | EV Charging at Bayside Dentistry since 2023

Barnegat, NJ · Client since January 2023

Bayside Dentistry in Barnegat, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since January of 2023. Both jobs on this page are commercial rather than domestic in every respect – the scale, the equipment, and the reason for doing them at all.

100 panels and 36.5 kW

Finished on 31 March 2023: 100 REC N-Peak 2 all-black modules across three separate arrays of 16.06, 15.33 and 5.11 kW, feeding a SolarEdge 50 kW commercial inverter with an optimizer on every panel. Rail-free mounting, a 600-amp service, and an estimated 41,580 kilowatt hours in the first year. The roof was sound, so the whole job stayed with the array.

What makes a practice a better candidate than a house is the shape of its demand rather than its size. Chairs, sterilizers, compressors, lighting and air conditioning all run straight through the working day – roughly eight until five, five days a week – which is very nearly the window in which an array produces. A house uses most of its power in the evening, after the panels have finished for the day. A dental practice uses it at noon.

Two J1772 ports beside the meter

That August we installed a ChargePoint CT4021 outdoors next to the meter: a commercial pedestal station with two J1772 ports, adding roughly 37 miles of range an hour. Two ports rather than one is the difference between a charger and a facility – staff and patients can both use it, two cars at a time, during an appointment that was going to take an hour anyway.

Why these two belong together on a commercial site

A dual-port charger in a customer lot is an unusual load in one specific and useful way: it draws during business hours. Nearly every argument for charging at home rests on doing it overnight, when demand is low. A practice cannot do that, because its cars are on site in the middle of the day – which is precisely when thirty-six and a half kilowatts of roof is working hardest. The array is not simply offsetting the charging load on paper across a billing period. It is generating in the same hours the cars are plugged in, on the same meter, in a building whose own demand peaks at the same time. That alignment is difficult to arrange at a house and comes almost free at a workplace.

Questions from Barnegat homeowners

SolarWhich utility handles interconnection in Barnegat?

The electric distribution company that serves the property. In New Jersey that is Jersey Central Power & Light, PSE&G, Atlantic City Electric or Rockland Electric depending on the address, and municipal electric systems can have their own requirements.

EV chargingWhat is a Level 2 EV charger?

A Level 2 charger supplies an electric vehicle from a 208- or 240-volt circuit and is the most common choice for New Jersey homeowners who want reliable overnight charging. Charging speed depends on the charger, circuit capacity, vehicle onboard charger, and the car's current battery state.

SolarWhat should a Barnegat homeowner look for in a solar company?

One that can design, permit, interconnect, install, commission, monitor and service the system, and explain the structure accurately. That means twelve months of real usage, a realistic production model, correct kW and kWh arithmetic, orientation and shading, structural capacity, the rooftop code requirements, the electrical articles for photovoltaic systems and grid interconnection, rapid shutdown, manufacturer installation instructions, utility interconnection and net metering, incentive registration, roof age and condition, penetration and waterproofing detail, the panel, inverter, mounting and workmanship warranties, monitoring, and service after the installation. The question worth asking is not who quoted least, but which company has designed the best long-term system for the house and will still be able to support it years from now.