Caroline from Middletown, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since November of 2020. The generator was installed by another company, and the relationship began with a startup inspection and a monitoring subscription set up the same day. Every interval since has been kept: the first-year service in 2021, then the two-year, three-year, four-year and five-year visits through to this year. Monitoring on a machine we did not install is the part that changes the year between visits – the weekly self-test stops being a noise in the garden and becomes something that reports its own result. An annual maintenance plan and the monitoring both sit behind the machine.
Why Caroline chose Green Sun Energy Services
We keep your generator ready before the power goes out.
What makes Green Sun Energy Services different
- Standby generators: installed and serviced as a Generac Authorized Sales and Service Dealer, by factory-authorized Generac technicians. On this home: a standby generator serviced by Green Sun Energy Services.
- Local: locally owned and operated in New Jersey since 2010, NJHIC licensed (#13VH06229000), with 707 completed generator service projects across Monmouth County and 934 generator service projects throughout New Jersey.
Our work in Middletown
Green Sun Energy Services has completed 120 generator service customers in Middletown. Middletown, a township on Raritan Bay and Sandy Hook Bay in Monmouth County, is served by JCP&L.
Thinking about generator service for your Middletown home? Tell us about your project here or call 732-410-7818.
Power it. Protect it. Maintain it.
Project Facts
- Location
- Middletown, NJ
- Service
- Standby Generator Service
- Client since
- November 2020
- Manufacturer & model
- Generac 7038-1
- Rated output
- 20 kW LP / 18 kW NG
- Transfer switch
- 90 amp
- Load management
- Managed Whole House
Standby generator questions from Middletown homeowners
Does the generator have to be bolted down?
Not every ground-level installation uses the same anchoring method. The requirement changes with the model, the pad type, wind exposure, flood requirements, elevated platforms and any local engineering requirement. The model manual and the site conditions decide it.
Why do outages last longer on some Middletown streets than others?
Mature tree cover over overhead lines is the usual reason. Limbs coming down in wind, snow or ice take the lines with them, so heavily treed streets tend to see both more frequent outages and longer restoration times than open ones. It is one of the honest arguments for standby power rather than a portable generator.
How is a standby generator grounded?
The grounding and bonding arrangement depends on the transfer-switch configuration, and in particular on whether the neutral is switched and the generator therefore treated as a separately derived system. It is designed by a qualified electrical contractor rather than assumed from another installation.