Richard from Belmar, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since May of 2025, and the charger went in before the array – which is the order that gives an array something solid to be sized against.
A ChargePoint by the parking pad
30 May 2025. Hardwired, J1772, on a dedicated 60-amp circuit at 11.5 kW – roughly 36 miles of range an hour – mounted outdoors beside the parking pad, with the run taken through the open basement and crawlspace rather than chased through finished walls. With the charger counted in, the calculated minimum service came to 146.55 amps against a 200-amp supply. That is a comfortable margin, though not the same thing as an idle one: 2,111 square feet with two sump pumps, two refrigerators, a dishwasher and the laundry is already using a fair share of what the service can give.
21 panels and 9.03 kW across four roof faces
10 September: 21 Jinko 430-watt modules with Enphase IQ8PLUS microinverters, rail-mounted, spread across four separate roof faces at 3.87, 2.15, 2.15 and 0.86 kW – the smallest of them two panels. Estimated at 11,073 kilowatt hours in the first year and interconnected by JCP&L in October. Four orientations on one house is the case for microinverters in a sentence: every panel converts on its own, so the two-panel face earns its keep instead of dragging down everything it would otherwise be wired in series with.
Why this order beats the other one
Installing the charger first and the array three months later is not a delay, it is a measurement. A car is the largest single change most households ever make to their electricity consumption, and until it is actually plugged in at home every night, the size of that change is an estimate. By September this house knew what it used. The array was then sized against a real number rather than a projected one – and on a roof split four ways, where each additional panel has to earn a place on a smaller and more awkward face than the one before it, knowing exactly how much you need is worth more than usual.
Project Facts
- Location
- Belmar, NJ
- Services
- EV Charger Installation, Solar Panel Installation
- Client since
- May 2025
Solar
- Panels
- Jinko Model # JKM430N-54HL4R-B
- Panels
- 21
- System size
- 9.03 kW
- Inverter
- EnPhase IQ8PLUS-72-M-US Micro-Single
- Mounting system
- IronRidge
- Estimated first-year production
- 11,073 kWh
- Share of the home's electricity
- 100%
- Electric utility
- JCP&L
EV charger
- Charger
- ChargePoint Model # CPH50-HARDWIRE-L23
- Charging port
- CCS (J1772)
- Circuit breaker
- 60 amp
- Charging stations
- 1
- Estimated range added per hour
- Estimated Range Per Hour: 36 mi / 58 km
Questions from Belmar homeowners
SolarHow does residential solar work on a Belmar 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.
EV chargingWhich charger makes sense if the next car might be a different brand?
A universal approach is worth considering: a Home Flex with either connector, or a Tesla Universal Wall Connector with its integrated J1772 adapter. A charger installed today is likely to outlast the car parked in front of it, so the connector decision is worth making for the household rather than the current vehicle.
EV chargingHow long does it take to charge an electric car at home?
That depends on the size of the battery, how depleted it is, the capacity of the vehicle's onboard charger and the output of the charging equipment. A charger capable of 48 amps does not mean every vehicle will draw 48 amps. The car has the final say in how much AC power it accepts.