Solar Critter Guard and Solar Panel Installation in Wayne, NJ by Green Sun Energy Services.
Brian from Wayne, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since November of 2018. The contract was signed just before Thanksgiving and the array was commissioned on Valentine’s Day — a slow winter turnaround, and a normal one for a system permitted in December. It is 28 LG 335-watt panels on a SolarEdge inverter, 9.38 kW rated and designed for about 10,842 kilowatt-hours a year, and it went up with 148 feet of critter guard around it. The gap beneath an array is dry, shaded and out of reach of anything larger, which makes it the best nesting site on the roof unless it is closed off first. Wayne is in Passaic County, the northernmost town we have installed solar in.
Project Facts
- Location
- Wayne, NJ
- Services
- Solar Critter Guard, Solar Panel Installation
- Client since
- November 2018
- Panels
- LG Model # 335N1C-A5
- Panels
- 28
- System size
- 9.38 kW
- Inverter
- SolarEdge SE7600H-US000NNC2
- Mounting system
- Ecolibrium Solar
- Estimated first-year production
- 10,842 kWh
- Share of the home's electricity
- 99%
- Electric utility
- PSE&G
- Critter guard fitted
- 148 ft
Excellent experience all around. Glen came out to evaluate my property when other companies blew me off after just looking up my home on google maps and saw there were some trees in the way. Glen and his team came up with multiple panel locations that worked with my home and would get me the best performance and price. His installation team was courteous and professional. Green Sun was on top of everything and walked me through the whole process. Would absolutely recommend to anyone considering solar. Even my biggest critic my wife gave me kudos after I went solar with Green Sun. I'm saving even more money than I anticipated.
Green Sun Energy Services replied
Thank you, Brian. Assessing a property from an aerial photograph is how a company decides you are not worth the visit, and trees are exactly the case that needs somebody standing in the yard. The 28 LG panels making 9.38 kW at your home in Wayne came out of that visit and the options that followed it.
Solar questions from Wayne homeowners
How much does shade from mature Wayne trees affect production?
Shade can materially reduce production, particularly when it falls during the highest-production hours. Module-level electronics such as microinverters and optimizers reduce the effect of partial shading, but they cannot create sunlight where there is none. Significant shade should be modelled before any annual production figure is quoted.
What is an interconnection application?
The technical application to the electric distribution company asking permission to connect the array to the grid. The utility may review the system size, the inverter, the one-line diagram, the service configuration, the export capability and the capacity of the circuit it would connect to.
Does production have to match usage every month?
No. New Jersey net metering works over an annualised period rather than month by month, so credits accumulated in high-production months are available during the low-production ones.