EV Charger Installation and Solar Panel Installation in Martinsville, NJ by Green Sun Energy Services.
Richard from Martinsville, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since December of 2013. He and Jenn signed that December, the array was producing by the end of March, and the charger followed nearly ten years later.
30 panels and 7.5 kW, from 2014
Producing by 27 March 2014: 30 Trina 250-watt modules on Enphase M215 microinverters, rail-free mounting, 7.5 kW rated and estimated at 8,431 kilowatt hours in the first year. Two hundred and fifty watts is what a full-size panel produced in 2014, and a current module of the same footprint delivers close to twice that. The array is still up and still working, which in the end is the only test worth applying.
A ChargePoint on a NEMA 6-50
13 October 2023. A plug-in unit rather than a hardwired one, adding roughly 36 miles of range an hour. Plug-in suits a household that might want to take the charger with them, or replace it, without calling an electrician to do it.
Ten years between, and what the array was already doing
With the charger counted in, the calculated minimum service came to 125.27 amps against a 200-amp panel – a comfortable margin on a 2,407 square foot house with two refrigerators, a separate freezer, a dishwasher and the laundry. But the number is not what makes this pair worth putting on one page. The gap between them is. The array was designed in 2013 for a household with no electric car in it and no particular prospect of one, and ten years later the same panels are covering a load nobody involved had thought about when they went up. That is the argument for solar that outlasts every change in the incentive landscape: an array sized against a house’s consumption goes on working when the shape of that consumption changes, because it was never tied to what the electricity was being used for.
Project Facts
- Location
- Martinsville, NJ
- Services
- EV Charger Installation, Solar Panel Installation
- Client since
- December 2013
Solar
- Panels
- Trina Model # TMS-PC05/PA05.18/250W
- Panels
- 30
- System size
- 7.50 kW
- Inverter
- EnPhase M215-60-2LL-S22-IG Micro-Single
- Mounting system
- Zep Solar
- Estimated first-year production
- 8,431 kWh
- Electric utility
- PSE&G
EV charger
- Charger
- ChargePoint Model # CPH50-NEMA6-50-L23
- Charging port
- CCS (J1772)
- Circuit breaker
- 60 amp
- Charging stations
- 1
- Estimated range added per hour
- Estimated Range Per Hour: 36 mi / 58 km
...No gimmicky sales, spot on with the financial analysis and they were great with implementation services and expectations. The SRECs are paying off and it was the right option for us to purchase the system over leasing, which Glen helped us decide with his industry knowledge. We are extremely happy with the program. Plus it felt good to support a local NJ business over the bigger Solar corporations without sacrificing on quality or cost. - Richard M. in Bridgewater, NJ / Solar Review Source: Google
Green Sun Energy Services replied
Thank you, Richard. No gimmicks is a fair description of how we would like to sell. The 7.5 kW array at your home in Martinsville has been producing since 2014, and the ChargePoint that followed in 2023 charges the car from a house that was already generating. Nine years between the two is a compliment in itself.
Questions from Martinsville homeowners
EV chargingWhat should a Martinsville homeowner look for in an EV charger installer?
One that treats the charger, the car, the electrical service, the permit and any utility programme as a single system rather than fitting a 60-amp breaker because the charger will take one. That means the household's actual daily driving, what the vehicle's onboard charger accepts, the connector, the service rating, a proper load calculation, the capacity left in the panel, Article 625 and the manufacturer's installation instructions, the correct breaker and conductor sizes, hardwired or plug-in, indoor or outdoor, the municipal permit and final inspection, commissioning and network setup, whatever incentives are open at the time, off-peak charging, how it interacts with solar or back-up power if the house has either, and the second car that may arrive later. The question worth asking is which charging system gives the house the speed it actually needs without upgrading the service unnecessarily.
SolarWhat is the difference between a lease and a power purchase agreement?
Under a lease the customer generally pays an agreed periodic amount for the use of the system; under a power purchase agreement the customer generally pays for the electricity the system produces. Both normally involve third-party ownership, and terms vary considerably between providers.
EV chargingWhat amperage settings does a ChargePoint Home Flex have?
Home Flex can be configured for 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 or 50 amps. It is commissioned at installation to match the circuit it is on and the capacity the house has spare, which is what lets the same charger suit a full panel and an empty one.