Solar Panel Installation and Soft Washing in Oceanport, NJ | Thirty-Three Panels and a Row of Pines

Oceanport, NJ · Client since October 2020

Charlotte in Oceanport has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since October of 2020. The array was commissioned that December and we soft washed the house in May 2025.

Thirty-three panels, and a condition

Thirty-three LG 340-watt panels went onto the back of this house in two groups — eighteen on the main roof and fifteen over the garage — both at a shallow 22.6-degree pitch on an azimuth of 145 degrees. It is a good roof: the main group has no measured shading at all.

The garage group is the one with a story attached. It carries eight percent shading, and the production estimate for this array was written with an explicit condition on it: that the pine trees behind the garage roof would be cut back below gutter height.

That condition is worth stating rather than quietly leaving in the paperwork, because it is the single most common reason a real array underperforms the number it was sold on. Trees are not a fixed feature. They grow, they grow fastest in exactly the direction that suits them and not you, and a pine that clears a gutter today will not in five years. An estimate that assumes clear sky over a roof is a forecast about landscaping as much as about equipment, and the household is the only one who can hold up their end of it.

The array is 11.22 kW feeding a SolarEdge SE10000H inverter on Ecolibrium mounting, with an optimizer on every panel — which is also why the shaded garage group can sit on the same system as the unshaded main group without holding it back. Estimated first-year production is 15,486 kWh and the utility is JCP&L. It was commissioned on 10 December 2020.

3,780 square feet washed in May

On 12 May 2025 we soft washed 3,780 square feet of the exterior. Soft washing does the work with the solution rather than with force: a sodium hypochlorite and surfactant mix is applied at low pressure, left to kill the algae and mildew growing on the surface, and rinsed off. Pressure alone takes the staining away and leaves the growth rooted in the surface, so it returns within a season.

Why Oceanport homeowners choose Green Sun Energy Services

Clean the cause, not just the surface, without blasting your home with unnecessary pressure.

More than solar panels: a professionally managed energy system, from design and permitting through installation, inspection, activation and ongoing support.

What makes Green Sun Energy Services different

• Soft washing: cleaned by a team trained in soft washing, using the right cleaning solution and low pressure for each surface. Fully licensed and insured. On this home: a soft wash of 3,780 sq ft.
• 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: an 11.22 kW solar array of 33 LG 340N1K-L5 panels, a SolarEdge SE10000H-US000NNC2 inverter, the Ecolibrium Solar mounting system and 164 ft of critter guard.
• Warranty: backed by a 10-year solar workmanship warranty.
• Local: locally owned and operated in New Jersey since 2010, NJHIC licensed (#13VH06229000), with 41 completed soft wash projects and 138 completed solar projects across Monmouth County and 46 soft wash projects and 361 solar projects throughout New Jersey.

Our work in Oceanport

Green Sun Energy Services has completed 1 soft wash and 2 featured solar projects in Oceanport. Oceanport, a borough on the Shrewsbury River in Monmouth County, is served by JCP&L.

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Thinking about solar, a soft wash, or both for your Oceanport home? Tell us about your project here or call 732-410-7818.

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Questions from Oceanport homeowners

Soft washingWill the roof look completely clean the same day?

Algae staining can improve rapidly, but moss and lichen may take longer to weather away after treatment. The objective is to clean the roof safely, not to achieve an instant cosmetic result by damaging the shingles.

Soft washingWhy are plants pre-soaked before soft washing?

Pre-wetting vegetation gives leaves and the surrounding soil fresh water before they may encounter incidental cleaning overspray. Plant protection is an important part of professional soft washing, and the published process specifically includes pre-soaking landscaping and sensitive vegetation before treatment.

Soft washingWhat happens before the cleaning starts?

A walk of the property first: the condition of the surfaces, the stains actually present, the landscaping, the windows, exterior electrical fittings, access, and anything delicate enough to need different treatment. Sensitive planting is pre-soaked with fresh water before any cleaning solution is applied.

SolarWhat does a 460-watt panel mean?

It is rated to produce up to about 460 watts under standardised laboratory conditions. Twenty-five of them make 11.5 kW DC; twenty-six make 11.96 kW. The panel count and the wattage should multiply out to the DC system size stated in the proposal -- if they do not, something has been rounded that should not have been.

SolarWhich utility handles interconnection in Oceanport?

The electric distribution company that serves the property. In New Jersey that is Jersey Central Power & Light, PSE&G, Atlantic City Electric or Rockland Electric depending on the address, and municipal electric systems can have their own requirements.