Standby Generator Service, Solar and Roofing in Lincroft, NJ | Taken On at Year Eight, a New Roof and 32 Panels

Lincroft, NJ · Client since December 2020

Daniel from Lincroft, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since December of 2020, and the house has taken three trades since. The generator came to us at second hand: another company installed it in November of 2012, and we picked up its servicing eight years later.

An 8 kW Generac taken on at year eight

An 8 kW Generac running on natural gas, behind a 35-amp indoor transfer switch in the basement on a 200-amp service. Taking a machine on at eight years is a different proposition from commissioning one. The installer is long out of the picture, nobody has an incentive to keep it going except the owner, and whether it starts in its fourteenth year comes down entirely to whether somebody has opened the enclosure every year since. Somebody has: it was serviced in each of 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, and went back out on a billable call in late 2025.

3,200 square feet of new roof

In March of 2023 a single layer was stripped to the sheathing and carted away rather than roofed over, and 3,200 square feet of composition shingle in pewter gray went on, warranted fifty years. The ventilation was rebuilt with it – continuous soffit vents at the intake and thirty-four feet of exhaust, sized against a calculated requirement rather than guessed. Ventilation is the part of a roof nobody ever looks at and the part that decides how long the shingle above it lasts.

32 panels and 12.96 kW

Two months later the array went on: 32 REC 405-watt modules on a SolarEdge Energy Hub inverter, rail-free mounting, split across two roof faces at 7.29 and 5.67 kW and estimated at 15,475 kilowatt hours in the first year. JCP&L interconnected it in June.

Why the roof went first

The two months between the roof and the array are the whole point. Panels are fixed to the roofing system beneath them, so an array laid over a roof that is due for replacement is an array that has to come off and go back on – a job nobody budgets for and everybody pays for. Doing the roof first costs almost nothing extra when the work is planned together, and it is the difference between one project and three.

Why Daniel chose Green Sun Energy Services

One company designs the roof and solar system together, so there is no finger-pointing between a roofer and a solar installer.

We keep your generator ready before the power goes out.

What makes Green Sun Energy Services different

• Roofing: installed as a GAF Certified Roofing Contractor (#CE28608), with a GAF Timberline Lifetime Roofing System like the one on this home. On this home: a new roof over 3,200 sq ft.
• Solar: design and installation supervised by a NABCEP-certified professional (#PVA-111016-016148), with SolarEdge optimizers on every panel so each one reports its own output. On this home: a 12.96 kW solar array of 32 REC REC405AA-PURE panels, a SolarEdge SE11400H-USSNBBL14 HD Wave Energy Hub inverter, the Snap-N-Rack mounting system and 204 ft of critter guard.
• 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.
• Warranty: backed by a 50-year roof warranty, a 10-year roofing workmanship warranty and a 25-year solar workmanship warranty.
• Local: locally owned and operated in New Jersey since 2010, NJHIC licensed (#13VH06229000), with 32 completed roofing projects, 140 completed solar projects and 716 completed generator service projects across Monmouth County and 92 roofing projects, 363 solar projects and 944 generator service projects throughout New Jersey.

Our work in Lincroft

Green Sun Energy Services has completed 2 roof replacements, 5 featured solar projects and 37 generator service customers in Lincroft. Lincroft, a community in Middletown Township, is served by JCP&L.

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Thinking about a new roof, solar, or generator service for your Lincroft home? Tell us about your project here or call 732-410-7818.

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Questions from Lincroft homeowners

SolarAre panels designed for the wind near Lincroft?

Yes. The array and its mounting system have to be designed to resist the applicable wind loads, and coastal and exposed locations can carry different wind-design conditions from sheltered inland ones. It is one of the reasons the mounting system and its engineering are chosen for the site rather than by habit.

SolarHow does an optimizer system differ from microinverters?

An optimizer system puts DC power optimizers at the modules and a single central inverter elsewhere; a microinverter system puts a small inverter at each module. Both can provide module-level monitoring and rapid shutdown when properly designed -- they are different architectures rather than one being the upgrade of the other.

Standby generatorCan the existing natural-gas service in a Lincroft home supply a generator?

Often yes, but the gas system has to be evaluated first. The review covers the generator's BTU demand, meter capacity, available pressure, regulator capacity, pipe diameter and length, and every other gas appliance in the house -- furnace, boiler, water heater, range and fireplace among them.

Standby generatorCan a standby generator run central air conditioning?

Yes, when it is sized for it. The design has to account for both the running demand and the starting surge of the air-conditioning equipment. Load-management equipment can be used where necessary so that demand does not all arrive at once.

RoofingWhat is a cricket behind a chimney?

A cricket is a small peaked structure built on the uphill side of a wider chimney to divert water around it. On certain chimney widths and roof configurations it can be important for code compliance and long-term drainage.

RoofingWhat is drip edge and do I need it?

Drip edge is metal installed along roof edges to direct water away from the fascia and into the gutter or away from the structure. Properly installed drip edge helps protect roof edges and is an important component of a complete roofing system.

RoofingDoes a wind warranty with no speed limit mean the roof cannot blow off?

No. It is a limited warranty without a maximum wind-speed limitation for qualifying systems, and that is a statement about coverage rather than about physics. Storm damage remains possible and the coverage remains subject to the warranty's terms and exclusions.