20-panel 7.3 kW solar array in Lincroft, NJ by Green Sun Energy Services.
Alexandra in Lincroft has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since December of 2022. The solar array was commissioned in March 2023 and the standby generator sixteen months later.
20 panels in March 2023
Twenty REC 365-watt panels, 7.3 kW in total, on Snap-N-Rack mounting with a SolarEdge SE6000H HD Wave inverter and an optimizer on every panel. Estimated first-year production is 8,732 kWh and the utility is JCP&L.
A 22 kW machine in July 2024
This is a 2,800 square foot house with two of most things: two furnaces, two gas water heaters, two three-ton air conditioners. Doubling the mechanical systems is what a house does when it is heated and cooled in zones, and it changes the electrical picture more than the floor area suggests.
The calculation comes to 25,096 watts. The two air conditioners are 6,000 of that between them and are the load taken off the top while the generator is running, which leaves 19,096 watts to hold. The machine is a Generac Guardian 22 kW, model 7042-2, delivering 19.5 kW on natural gas, behind a 200-amp service-rated transfer switch with surge protection.
The furnaces are the reason this matters in January rather than July. Both burn gas, and both are useless without electricity — a gas furnace needs power for its blower, its igniter and its controls, and a house with two of them has two blowers that stop at the same moment the lights do.
Summer outages are the hard ones
Winter gets the attention, because a house without heat in February is obviously serious. But air conditioning is the load that decides how a standby installation has to be designed, and summer is when the grid is least reliable.
Two three-ton units drawing together are the heaviest demand this house can present, and they present it in the same weather that brings the thunderstorms down on the lines. A generator sized to carry them outright would be a substantially larger machine, running at a fraction of its capacity for the other fifty weeks of the year, burning more gas to do the same work.
Managing them instead is the better engineering answer, and the household barely notices. The compressors take their turn rather than both starting into a generator that is already loaded; everything else — the refrigerators, the sump pump, the furnaces, the dishwasher, the washer, the garage doors — is never in the queue at all.
The array, of course, does none of this. A grid-tied system shuts down the moment the utility supply fails, and must, so that it cannot energise a line a crew is working on. On the hottest afternoon of the year, with the roof in full sun, it is the generator beside the house doing the work.
It was last serviced on 3 June 2026.
Why Lincroft homeowners choose Green Sun Energy Services
More than solar panels: a professionally managed energy system, from design and permitting through installation, inspection, activation and ongoing support.
Complete backup power, from sizing and installation to the service that keeps it ready.
What makes Green Sun Energy Services different
- 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 7.3 kW solar array of 20 REC-365NP2-Black panels, a SolarEdge SE6000H-US000NNC2 HD Wave inverter and the Snap-N-Rack mounting system.
- Standby generators: installed and serviced as a Generac Authorized Sales and Service Dealer, by factory-authorized Generac technicians. On this home: a Generac 7042-2 standby generator (22 kW LP / 19.5 kW NG) running on natural gas, on a 200-amp transfer switch (managed whole house) and serviced by Green Sun Energy Services.
- Warranty: backed by a 10-year solar workmanship warranty and a 5-year generator workmanship warranty.
- Local: locally owned and operated in New Jersey since 2010, NJHIC licensed (#13VH06229000), with 138 completed solar projects and 444 completed standby generator projects across Monmouth County and 361 solar projects and 621 standby generator projects throughout New Jersey.
Our work in Lincroft
Green Sun Energy Services has completed 5 featured solar projects, 20 standby generator installations and 37 generator service customers in Lincroft. Lincroft, a community in Middletown Township, is served by JCP&L.
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Project Facts
- Location
- Lincroft, NJ
- Services
- Solar Panel Installation, Standby Generator Installation, Standby Generator Service
- Client since
- December 2022
Solar
- Manufacturer & model
- REC-365NP2-Black
- Panels
- 20
- System size
- 7.30 kW
- Inverter
- SolarEdge SE6000H-US000NNC2 HD Wave
- Mounting system
- Snap-N-Rack
- Estimated first-year production
- 8,732 kWh
- Share of the home's electricity
- 97%
- Electric utility
- JCP&L
- Workmanship warranty
- 10 years
Standby generator
- Manufacturer & model
- Generac 7042-2
- Rated output
- 22 kW LP / 19.5 kW NG
- Fuel
- Natural Gas
- Home sized for
- 2,800 sq ft
- Electrical service
- 200 amp
- Transfer switch
- 200 amp
- Load management
- Managed Whole House
- Workmanship warranty
- 5 years
Questions from Lincroft homeowners
Standby generatorDoes a permanently installed generator need a disconnect?
Yes. Permanently installed generators fall under the disconnecting-means requirements of the National Electrical Code's generator article, and the equipment and electrical design have to satisfy those requirements alongside the machine's own listing and instructions.
Standby generatorWhat fuel does a home standby generator use?
Most residential air-cooled standby generators are designed to run on either natural gas or vapour-withdrawn liquid propane. The generator and its fuel system have to be configured for whichever is chosen, and the required pressure, capacity and consumption figures depend on the model.
Standby generatorDoes new gas piping have to be pressure tested in Lincroft?
Yes. Gas piping subject to the adopted fuel-gas code must be inspected and tested before it is accepted. New Jersey adopts the 2024 International Fuel Gas Code, which governs the inspection, the test pressure and how long the test has to hold.
SolarAre all mounting systems much the same?
No. They differ substantially in attachment method, waterproofing, rail design, materials, wind rating and installation requirements. Residential systems should use appropriately listed components installed to the manufacturer's instructions, and the residential code requires rooftop mounting and structural systems to satisfy the applicable structural and listing requirements.
SolarWhat is the difference between kW and kWh?
kW measures the size of the system; kWh measures the electricity it produces or the house consumes over time. An 11.5 kW array might be estimated at 13,100 kWh in its first year. Confusing the two makes proposals look larger or smaller than they are.