Bojan from Atlantic Highlands, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since May of 2022. The array is 8.28 kW – 23 REC 360-watt black-frame panels on a Snap-N-Rack mounting system – and it was finished in August of 2022. First-year production was estimated at 9,780 kWh. The job also included 140 feet of critter guard around the perimeter. That is the mesh that closes the gap between the panels and the roof, and on a house this close to the water it is worth doing at install rather than after something has already nested under there.
Project Facts
- Location
- Atlantic Highlands, NJ
- Services
- Roofing Installation, Solar Critter Guard, Solar Panel Installation
- Client since
- May 2022
Solar
- Panels
- REC Model # REC-360NP2-Black
- Panels
- 23
- System size
- 8.28 kW
- Inverter
- SolarEdge SE7600H-US000NNC2 HD Wave
- Mounting system
- Snap-N-Rack
- Estimated first-year production
- 9,780 kWh
- Share of the home's electricity
- 99%
- Electric utility
- JCP&L
- Critter guard fitted
- 140 ft
Roof
- System
- GAF Timberline Lifetime Roofing System
- Area replaced
- 3,100 sq ft
- Warranty
- 50 years
Questions from Atlantic Highlands homeowners
SolarHow does residential solar work on a Atlantic Highlands home?
The panels convert sunlight into direct-current electricity, and an inverter or microinverters convert that into alternating current the house can use. When the array produces more than the house is drawing, the surplus flows out through the utility meter under New Jersey's net-metering rules. When the house needs more than the array is making, the difference comes from the utility.
RoofingDoes a manufacturer's roof warranty cover the contractor's workmanship?
It depends entirely on which warranty. Base product warranties commonly do not include workmanship at all, while enhanced warranties available through certified contractors can provide specified workmanship protection when qualifying products are used. Identify the warranty by its actual name rather than accepting the word warranty on its own.
RoofingWhat is step flashing?
Individual pieces of flashing woven in with the shingle courses where a sloped roof meets a vertical wall, each one lapping the piece below. It cannot be substituted with a single continuous strip of metal run up the joint, and the shingle manufacturer's instructions set the dimensions and the method.