Igor from Monroe Township, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since August of 2021. The array is 10.8 kW – 27 Hanwha Q CELLS 400-watt black-frame panels on an Ecolibrium Solar mounting system – and it was finished in December of 2021. First-year production was estimated at 12,018 kWh. Four hundred watts a panel is what let a ten-kilowatt array fit on twenty-seven modules; a decade earlier the same output would have needed more than forty and the roof to put them on.
Project Facts
- Location
- Monroe Township, NJ
- Service
- Solar Panel Installation
- Client since
- August 2021
- Panels
- Hanwha Model # QCELL Q.PEAK DUO BLK ML G10+ 400
- System size
- 10.80 kW
- Inverter
- SolarEdge SE10000H-US000NNC2
- Mounting system
- Ecolibrium Solar
- Estimated first-year production
- 12,018 kWh
Solar questions from Monroe Township homeowners
Are panels designed for the wind near Monroe Township?
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.
How 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.
Are north-facing panels a bad idea?
They generally produce less annual energy in New Jersey than comparable south-facing panels, but they are not automatically unusable. Roof pitch, shading, the economics and the space available all matter, and a production model should show the expected output before north-facing modules go into a design.