Generator, Solar, EV Charger and Holiday Lighting in Tinton Falls, NJ | Four Trades, Client Since 2020

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Christmas Light Installation, EV Charger Installation and Solar Panel Installation in Tinton Falls, NJ by Green Sun Energy Services.

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Tinton Falls, NJ · Client since August 2020

Elizabeth from Tinton Falls, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since August of 2020. Four trades in five years, and they arrived in the reverse of the usual order – the generator first and the array last, with a car charger in between.

A 16 kW Generac on a 200-amp managed switch

The load calculation asked for a minimum of 15 kW under NEC Article 220 Part IV and a 16 kW natural-gas Generac went in, running by January. It sits behind a 200-amp managed whole-house transfer switch with two load-management modules and whole-house surge protection. Those modules are what let a machine this size carry a whole house rather than a nominated list of circuits: instead of choosing what to leave off in advance, they shed the largest intermittent loads only for as long as those loads would otherwise overrun the generator.

A ChargePoint charger on a 50-amp circuit

In November of 2022 we installed a ChargePoint Home Flex the homeowner had bought herself – hardwired, J1772, on a 50-amp circuit. Supplying your own hardware is perfectly sensible. What matters is that the circuit and the service behind it are sized by somebody who has seen the rest of the load, and by then we had.

24 REC panels and 11.04 kW

This one came in two halves, months apart. We took the original array off first, so that a major remodel could go ahead and the roof could be replaced by the homeowner’s contractor with nothing in the way. Then, in February of 2025, we came back and installed a completely new system on the finished roof: 24 REC 460-watt panels on a SolarEdge inverter, 11.04 kW rated and estimated at 13,891 kilowatt hours a year. Removing an array and putting one back is not the same job as replacing it in a single visit – the old system comes off intact and the new one is designed for the roof that now exists rather than fitted to the mounting that used to be there. It also has to sit on a service already carrying a standby generator and a car charger, which by then it did.

218 warm white C9 bulbs

In November of 2025 we ran warm white C9 lights along the roofline – 218 bulbs, which is a full roofline rather than a token run over the front door.

Four trades on one service

Everything electrical here went onto the same 200-amp service, and it arrived in the least convenient order. That ordering usually costs somebody money, because each addition has to be reconciled with whatever is already in the panel rather than planned alongside it. What kept this one straightforward is dull: the same contractor did the load calculation every time and knew what the previous jobs had left behind. A whole-house switch with load management, specified in 2020 for a generator, is the sort of decision that keeps paying when a car charger turns up two years later.

I couldn’t be happier with the services Green Sun Energy provides. They did such a great job installing our generator, after getting an electric vehicle I decided to have them install an EV charger in my garage. It’s been amazing! And Glen and his team at Green Sun made it so easy. The charger was installed in a perfect location and hardwired to my electric panel. They also made sure I had all the paperwork needed to file for reimbursements with the state and the electric company and I received the full amount allowed under the “make ready” program – $1,500. Now it’s a breeze to charge my car!