Solar Critter Guard and Solar Panel Installation in Metuchen, NJ by Green Sun Energy Services.
Merritt from Metuchen, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since June of 2026. We installed a 9.2 kW array in August: 20 REC 460-watt panels with Enphase IQ8X microinverters, estimated to produce 10,735 kWh in the first year, and 148 feet of critter guard around the edges to keep animals out of the gap beneath the panels. The array is leased rather than bought, at 16.6 cents per kWh against the 29 cents PSEG was charging at the time of the install, and the lease carries no annual escalator at all: that rate is fixed for the full 25 years while the utility rate has been climbing around 3 percent a year. Averaged over those 25 years, and assuming the utility keeps rising at about that pace, the projected saving is roughly 206 dollars a month.
Project Facts
- Location
- Metuchen, NJ
- Services
- Solar Critter Guard, Solar Panel Installation
- Client since
- June 2026
- Panels
- REC Model # 460AA-PURE-RX-DC
- Panels
- 20
- System size
- 9.20 kW
- Inverter
- EnPhase IQ8X-80-M-US
- Mounting system
- Unirac
- Estimated first-year production
- 10,735 kWh
- Share of the home's electricity
- 83%
- Electric utility
- PSE&G
- Critter guard fitted
- 148 ft
Solar questions from Metuchen homeowners
How does residential solar work on a Metuchen home?
The panels convert sunlight into direct-current electricity, and an inverter or microinverters convert that into alternating current the house can use. When the array produces more than the house is drawing, the surplus flows out through the utility meter under New Jersey's net-metering rules. When the house needs more than the array is making, the difference comes from the utility.
Can more solar be installed than the house uses?
New Jersey's net-metering rules generally limit a residential customer's generating capacity by reference to the electricity supplied to that customer over an annualised period. The programme is designed to offset a household's own consumption rather than turn it into a wholesale generator. Documented future loads can sometimes be relevant under the utility's procedures.
How are the roof penetrations waterproofed?
Penetrations have to be flashed and sealed by a method appropriate to the roofing material and the mounting system -- the residential code's solar provisions require it specifically. It is the detail that decides whether an array is a twenty-five-year installation or a future leak.