Standby Generator Installation and Solar Panel Installation in Marlboro, NJ | A Well Pump and 35 Solaria Panels

Marlboro, NJ · Client since July 2020

Jonathan in Marlboro has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since July of 2020. The solar array and the standby generator were signed on the same day and commissioned on the same day, 8 October 2020.

35 Solaria panels, 12.775 kW

Thirty-five Solaria 365-watt panels, 12.775 kW in total, on Ecolibrium mounting with a SolarEdge SE10000H inverter and an optimizer on every panel. Estimated first-year production is 17,285 kWh and the utility is JCP&L.

Solaria panels are built differently from most of what appears on these roofs. Instead of square cells laid out in a grid with visible silver busbars running between them, the cells are cut into strips and overlapped like shingles, with the electrical connection made in the overlap. That removes the gaps and the metal from the face of the panel, which puts slightly more active silicon in the same area and produces a module that reads as a plain black rectangle from the street.

A 22 kW machine, same day

The house is 4,000 square feet on a 200-amp service and its electrical calculation comes to 29,264 watts, of which 10,000 is air conditioning. That load is managed while the generator is running, bringing the figure the machine holds to 19,264 watts. The generator is a Generac Guardian 22 kW, model 7043-2, delivering 19.5 kW on natural gas, behind a 200-amp service-rated transfer switch mounted indoors beside the service panel in the garage. It was last serviced on 11 May 2026.

No power, no water

This property is on a well, and that single fact changes what an outage is.

On a public water main, losing electricity is an inconvenience: the lights are off, the food is at risk, the house gets cold. Water still comes out of the tap, because the pressure in the main is somebody else’s problem and somebody else’s pumps.

On a well, the pump is in the ground on this property and it runs on this property’s electricity. When the power stops, the pressure tank holds whatever it holds — usually a few minutes of ordinary use — and then there is nothing. No drinking water, no washing, no flushing. A household on a well does not lose a convenience during an outage; it loses the utility that makes a house habitable, and it loses it within the first hour.

That is why backup power on a well property is a different purchase from backup power on a main. Everything else on the circuit can wait a day. Water cannot, and a family sitting in a warm, well-lit house with no running water has not solved the problem — which is why the pump is on the list that never gets managed, never steps aside, and never waits its turn.

The array, needless to say, does none of this. A grid-tied system disconnects the moment the utility fails, and must, so that it cannot energise a line a crew is working on.